Emil Draitser has authored over twelve volumes of artistic and scholarly works, such as In the Jaws of the Crocodile: A Soviet Memoir; Farewell, Mama Odessa: A Novel; Shush! Growing up Jewish under Stalin, A Memoir, and Stalin’s Romeo Spy: A Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB’s Most Daring Operative. (For more information, go to: www.emildraitser.com.)
This excellent anthology, compiled and edited by Julia Nemirovskaya, showcases poems by Russian (and Russian-speaking) poets who express their absolute rejection of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
The documentary novel “The Tenth Circle” tells the story of the life, struggle, and destruction of the Minsk ghetto, one of the largest in the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II. (Russian edition)
“Monkey’s Defense” is a collection of short stories and parables by Nina Kossman, bilingual author of several books of poetry and prose and translator of Marina Tsvetaeva’s poems into English.
