Rafael Grugman

Rafael Grugman
Rafael Grugman
Born	(1948-10-16) 16 October 1948 (age 75) Odesa, USSR
Citizenship	USSR (1948-1991), Ukraine (1991-1996), United States (1996-present)
Occupation(s)	Writer, journalist, college educator

Rafael Abramovich Grugman (Russian: Рафаэль Абрамович Гругман; born 16 October 1948) is a Russian and Ukrainian writer, journalist, engineer, programmer and college educator.

Biography

Rafael Grugman was born in Odesa, Ukraine, USSR and graduated from Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute (NETI) in Russia (now Novosibirsk State Technical University, NSTU).

During student years he worked as a journalist for several Novosibirsk newspapers. In 1971 he returned to Odesa to work as an engineer for more than twenty years, authoring and contributing to more than 50 patents and scientific articles that were published in Moscow technical magazines.^[1]

In the mid-1980s, during the years of social and political reforms in the USSR, known as the Perestroika, he again becomes a journalist, publishing his work in leading newspapers in Odesa, and conducted interviews with diplomats and military and political figures. He was the first editor of the Jewish newspaper Ha-Meletz (Russian: Ха-Мелиц),^[2] published in Odesa after the collapse of the USSR.^[3]

He lives in the United States since 1996. He has held various positions working as a programmer, journalist and writer. Presently, he is teaching at a local college in New York.

Rafael Grugman the author of fiction and non-fiction books that were published in Russia, Ukraine, United States and Israel.^[4] The dystopian novel Nontraditional Love ^[5] was published by Liberty Publishing House in November 2008 and nominated for the 2009 Rossica Translation Prize (London, 2009).^[6]

Rafael Grugman the author of the petition to Congress and US President Donald Trump: Romania escaped a trial for the Holocaust. Initiate a case The US versus Fascist Romania, January 3, 2018 ^[7]

Fiction book published in USA (translated from Russian)

Nontraditional Love — New York: Liberty Publishing House, 2008
The Twenty Third Century: Nontraditional Love, — Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing, 2017
Napoleon's Great-Great-Grandson Speaks — Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing, 2017
The Messiah Who Might Have Been. I Was Churchill's Mistress — Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing, 2018

Fiction books

Bride of the Sea (Невеста моря ) — Ukraine, Odesa: Title, 1994
Borya, get out from the sea (Боря, выйди с моря) — Ukraine, Odesa: Southwest, 1995
Nuzhna mne vasha farshirovannaya ryba (Нужна мне ваша фаршированная рыба) — Ukraine, Odesa: Printing House, 2004
Borya, get out from the sea – 2. Odesa Tales (Боря, выйди с моря — 2. Одесские рассказы) — Russia, Moscow, Rodina, 2019
Запретная любовь. Forbidden Love — Russia, Moscow, Rodina, 2020
Testament of Mazepa, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, revealed in Odesa to the great-great-grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte (Завещание Мазепы, князя Священной Римской империи, открывшееся в Одессе праправнуку Бонапарта) — Russia, Moscow, Rodina, 2021

Nonfiction books

Vladimir Jabotinsky, the indomitable Samson (Владимир Жаботинский, неукротимый Самсон) — Israel, Isradon, 2010
Soviet square: Stalin-Khrushchev-Beria-Gorbachev (Советский квадрат: Сталин-Хрущев-Берия-Горбачев) — Russia, Piter, 2011
Svetlana Alliluyeva. The five lives (Светлана Аллилуева. Пять жизней) — Russia, Phoenix, 2012
Jabotinsky and Ben-Gurion: The Right and Left Poles of Israel (Жаботинский и Бен-Гурион: правый и левый полюсы Израиля) — Russia, Phoenix, 2014
The Death of Stalin: All the Versions - And One More (Смерть Сталина: все версии. И ещё одна) — Russia, Moscow, Eksmo, Algorithm, 2016
Svetlana Alliluyeva to Pasternak. "I've crossed my Rubicon" (Светлана Аллилуева — Пастернаку. “Я перешагнула мой Рубикон” — Russia, Moscow, Algorithm, 2018
Woman and War: From Love to Hate (Женщина и война. От любви до насилия) — Russia, Moscow, Algorithm, 2018
The Death of Stalin. All the Versions And One More (Смерть Сталина. Все версии и ещё одна) — Russia, Moscow, Eksmo, Rodina, 2021

Nonfiction books published in Ukraine

Військові злочини проти жінок. The War Crimes Against Women — Ukraine, Kharkiv, Fabula, 2024

References

^ USSR Patent Database, In Russian
^ Jewish newspapers in Ukraine, 1988-2001 Archived 2009-08-09 at the Wayback Machine
^ Odesa: Marazlievskaya Street
^ Books by Rafael Grugman on Ozon.ru, in Russian
^ "Nontraditional love", Liberty Publishing Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
^ Nontraditional Love on "Academia Rossica" Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Romania escaped a trial for the Holocaust. Initiate a case The US versus Fascist Romania". {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)