Avrahm Yarmolinsky
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Avrahm (Abraham) Yarmolinsky | |
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 Avrahm Yarmolinsky in 1919. | |
| Born | January 13, 1890 Haisin, Ukraine |
| Died | September 28, 1975 (aged 85) New York, New York, United States |
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| Occupation | writer |
| Employer | New York Public Library |
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Avrahm Yarmolinsky (January 13, 1890 – September 28, 1975) was an author, translator, and the husband of Babette Deutsch.[1][2]
Yarmolinsky was head of the Slavonic Division of the New York Public Library from 1918 to 1955.[2] He also taught at Columbia University and the City College of New York.
Books[]
- Dostoievsky, A Life
- A treasury of great Russian short stories - from Pushkin to Gorky
- A Treasury of Russian Verse
- Road to Revolution; a Century of Russian Radicalism [3]
- Turgenev: The Man, His Art and His Age
- The Russian Literary Imagination
- Russians: Then and Now - A Selection of Russian Writing from the Seventeenth Century of Our Own Day
- The Portable Chekhov - Viking Press, 1947
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Avrahm (Abraham) Yarmolinsky". Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. 2002. Gale Document Number: GALE|H1000108792. Retrieved 2014-02-25. Biography in Context.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Liptzin, Sol (2007). "Avrahm Yarmolinsky". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA. Gale Document Number: GALE|K2587521201. Retrieved 2014-02-25. Biography in Context.
- ^ Online archives
Further reading[]
- S.J. Kunitz (ed.), Twentieth Century Authors, first supplement (1955)
- H.M. Lyndenberg, in: New York Public Library Bulletin, 59 (March 1955), 107–32, list of works
- R. Yachnin, ibid., 72 (June 1968), 414–9, list of works 1955–67
- Bulletin of New York Public Library, March, 1955;
- Chicago Sunday Tribune, May 3, 1959;
- New York Times Book Review, May 10, 1959;
- Commonweal, August 28, 1959
External links[]
- Works by Avrahm Yarmolinsky at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Avrahm Yarmolinsky at Internet Archive
- Works by Avrahm Yarmolinsky at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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