Emil Draitser

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Emil Draitser is an author and professor of Russian at Hunter College, New York.

Emil Draitser has been publishing both fiction and nonfiction since 1965. Under his pen name "Emile Abramov", his work appeared in leading Soviet Russian journals (Youth, Literary Gazette and Crocodile among the best known).

In 1974, blacklisted by the Soviet literary establishment for a satire on one of its members, he took advantage of the Jewish immigration and came to the United States, where his short stories and collections of humor quickly won him wide acclaim.

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Forbidden Laughter (Nedozvolennyi Smekh): A compilation of Soviet-era political humor in Russian with English translation.

Peshchera Neozhidannoctei (The Fun House): A short story collection in Russian. Introduction by V. Aksyonov.

Techniques of Satire: The Case of Saltykov-Shchedrin; A study of comic devices used by satirists in general and the great 19th century satirist in particular.

Potenalsia mal'chik (The Lost Boy): A short story collection in Russian. Introduction by L. Anninsky.

Moskovskii robochii, 1993
Making War, Not Love: Gender and sexuality in Russian Humor: A sociological study that sheds light on Russian popular culture and the nature of sexual humor everywhere.

Taking Pengins to the Movies: Ethnic Humor in Russia; A sociological study that sheds light on Russian popular culture and ethnic humor in other countries.