Efim Drabkin (Russian: Ефим Евелевич Драбкин), better known by his pen name Efraim Sevela (Russian: Эфраим Севела, Hebrew: אפרים סבלה) (8 March 1928, Babruysk, Belarus – 18 August 2010, Moscow) was a Soviet writer, screenwriter, director, producer, who after his emigration from the Soviet Union lived in Israel, US and Russia.
After finishing school Sevela was admitted into the Belarusian State University and became a screenwriter for many Soviet patriotic films.
[1] In his book Stop the Plane - I'll Get Off (1977), Sevela harshly criticises Israel's system of integrating Jewish immigrants and bureaucracy.
Efraim Sevela worked and lived in many cities such as London, Paris, and West Berlin.
Among the published books are “Stop the Plane – I’ll Get Off”, “Monya Tsatskes the Standard Bearer”, “Mom”, “Viking”, “Toyota Corolla”, “Men’s Conversation in a Russian Bathhouse”, “Parrot Speaking Yiddish”, “Why there is no heaven on earth”, “I Love New York”, “Patriot with unwashed ears”, “Wisdom tooth”, “Sell your mother”, “Everything not in a human way”.