Avrahm Yarmolinsky

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Avrahm Yarmolinsky (January 13, 1890 – September 28, 1975) was an author, translator, and the husband of Babette Deutsch.Template:R

He attended the University of Neuchâtel 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.Template:R He married Babette Deutsch on April 28, 1921.Template:R

Yarmolinsky was head of the Slavonic Division of the New York Public Library from 1918 to 1955.[1]

Works

Yarmolinsky authored, edited, and translated many works throughout his life.Template:R

Author
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)
  • (with Babette Deutsch) More Tales of Faraway Folk (Harper, 1963)
  • The Letters of Anton Chekhov (Viking, 1973)
  • (with Moura Budberg) The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky (Citadel Press, 1988)
Editor and translator
  • (with Deutsch) Modern Russian Poetry (Harcourt, 1921). Edited the first revision of Constance Garnett's 1912 translation of The Brothers Karamazov (1933), Revised and published as A Treasury of Russian Verse (Macmillan, 1949), An Anthology of Russian Verse, 1816-1960 (Doubleday Anchor, 1962), and Two 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)

References

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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

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