Avrahm Yarmolinsky (January 13, 1890 – September 28, 1975) was an author, translator, and the husband of Babette Deutsch.[1][2]
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.jpg) 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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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[3]
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.[4]
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 [5]
- 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[6]
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;
- Chicago Sunday Tribune, May 3, 1959;
- New York Times Book Review, May 10, 1959;
- Commonweal, August 28, 1959
External links
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- Works by Avrahm Yarmolinsky at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
