Emil Draitser
Author Profiles

About the Author:

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Emil Draitser
New York, USA

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.)

Bookshelf
100 pms war
by Julia Nemirovskaya, editor

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.

DesyatyjKrug
by David Gay

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)

1. Dislocation
by Julia Nemirovskaya and Anna Krushelnitskaya, editors

This collection focuses on the war between Russia and Ukraine as seen by Russophone poets from all over the world.

Videos
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EastWest Literary Forum Bilingual Poetry & Prose Reading. July 13, 2025.
Length: 2 hrs. 08 min