Emil Draitser

EMIL DRAITSER is the award-winning author of twelve volumes of artistic and scholarly prose, including Stalin's Romeo Spy, Shush! Growing Up Jewish under Stalin: A Memoir , and Forbidden Laughter: Soviet Underground Jokes . He is a professor emeritus of Russian at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

EMIL DRAITSER is the award-winning author of twelve volumes of artistic and scholarly prose, including Stalin's Romeo Spy, Shush! Growing Up Jewish under Stalin: A Memoir , and Forbidden Laughter: Soviet Underground Jokes . He is a professor emeritus of Russian at Hunter College of the City University of New York. See less