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American writer
Avrahm (Abraham) Yarmolinsky |
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Avrahm Yarmolinsky in 1919. |
Born | (1890-01-13)January 13, 1890
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Died | September 28, 1975(1975-09-28) (aged 85)
New York, New York, United States |
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Occupation | writer |
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Employer | New York Public Library |
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- Bezalel Yarmolinsky
- Malka (Nemoy) Yarmolinsky
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Avrahm Yarmolinsky (January 13, 1890 – September 28, 1975) was an author, translator, and the husband of
Babette Deutsch.
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He attended the
University of Neuchatel in Switzerland before emigrating to USA in 1913. He received a bachelor's degree from
City College of New York in 1916 and his doctorate from
Columbia University in 1921. He married
Babette Deutsch in 1921
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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.
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Books
- Dostoievsky, A Life
- A treasury of great Russian short stories - from Pushkin to Gorky
- A Treasury of Russian Verse
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Road to Revolution: A Century of Russian Radicalism
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- 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
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References
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;
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Chicago Sunday Tribune, May 3, 1959;
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New York Times Book Review, May 10, 1959;
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Commonweal, August 28, 1959
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