American writer
Avrahm (Abraham) Yarmolinsky
Avrahm Yarmolinsky in 1919.
Born (1890-01-13 ) January 13, 1890Died September 28, 1975(1975-09-28) (aged 85) Education Occupation(s) author, translator Employer New York Public Library Spouse Children Parents Bezalel Yarmolinsky Malka (Nemoy) Yarmolinsky Notes
Avrahm Yarmolinsky (January 13, 1890 – September 28, 1975) was an author, translator, and the husband ofBabette Deutsch .[ 1] [ 2]
He attended theUniversity of Neuchâtel in Switzerland before emigrating to USA in 1913. He received a bachelor's degree fromCity College of New York in 1916 and his doctorate fromColumbia University in 1921.[ 3] [ 1]
Yarmolinsky was head of the Slavonic Division of theNew York Public Library from 1918 to 1955.[ 2]
Yarmolinsky authored, edited, and translated many works throughout his life.[ 1]
Author Dostoievksy: A Study in His Ideology (Columbia University Press , 1921)Turgenev: The Man, His Art and His Age (Century , 1926)The Jews and Other Minor Nationalities under the Soviets (Vanguard , 1928)Picturesque United States of America (Rudge, 1930)Russian Literature (American Library Association , 1931)Dostoevsky: A Life (Harcourt , 1934). Later expanded and published asDostoevsky: His Life and Art (Criterion, 1957)Early Polish Americana: A Bibliographical Study (New York Public Library , 1937)Russian Americana: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries (New York Public Library, 1943)Road to Revolution: A Century of Russian Radicalism [ 4] Cassell , 1957)Literature under Communism: The Literary Policy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from the end of World War II to the Death of Stalin (Russian and East European Institute,Indiana University , 1960)A Russian's American Dream: A Memoir on William Frey (University Press of Kansas , 1965)The Russian Literary Imagination (Funk & Wagnalls , 1969)Dostoevsky: Works and Days (Funk & Wagnalls, 1971)Editor The Works of Alexander Pushkin (Random House , 1936)A Treasury of Great Russian Short Stories: Pushkin to Gorky (Macmillan, 1944)The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings Hitherto Untranslated (Noonday, 1954)Soviet Short Stories (Doubleday Anchor , 1960)Russians, Then and Now: A Selection of Russian Writing from the Seventeenth Century to Our Own Day (Macmillan, 1963)(withBabette Deutsch )More Tales of Faraway Folk (Harper , 1963) The Letters of Anton Chekhov (Viking, 1973)(withMoura Budberg )The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky (Citadel Press, 1988) Editor and translator (with Deutsch)Modern Russian Poetry (Harcourt, 1921). Revised and published asA Treasury of Russian Verse (Macmillan, 1949),An Anthology of Russian Verse, 1816-1960 (Doubleday Anchor, 1962), andTwo Centuries of Russian Verse: An Anthology from Lomonosov to Voznesensky (Random House, 1966). (with Deutsch)Contemporary German Poetry: An Anthology (Harcourt, 1923) The Portable Chekhov (Viking , 1947)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
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