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Book talk: Laughing All the Way to Freedom: The Americanization of a Russian 脡migr茅 by Emil Draitser
10 June 2024, 6:00 pm鈥�8:00 pm
A SSEES seminar with Emil Draitser. This will be an online event.
This event is free.
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- Free
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SSEES
A sequel to the author鈥檚 autobiographical trilogy鈥�Shush! Growing up Jewish under Stalin, In the Jaws of the Crocodile, and聽Farewell, Mama Odessa鈥攖his book is part memoir and part cultural study about the challenges of immigration and American acculturation. With self-deprecating humour, the author, a former Soviet satirist who was punished for trespassing the boundaries of public criticism, recollects his growing pains as he overcame his indoctrinated upbringing in a totalitarian society to embrace America鈥檚 defining values.
Professor Emeritus at Hunter College of the City University of New York,聽Emil Draitser聽is an award-winning author of artistic and scholarly prose. Besides his 16 books, he has published essays and short stories in the聽Los Angeles Times, Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Prism International, World Literature Today, and others. He lives in West New York, New Jersey.