Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Avrahm Yarmolinsky was an author, translator, and the husband of Babette Deutsch.
Biography
Yarmolinsky attended the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland before emigrating to United States 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 on April 28, 1921.Yarmolinsky was head of the Slavonic Division of the New York Public Library from 1918 to 1955.
Works
Yarmolinsky authored, edited, and translated many works throughout his life.AuthorDostoievksy: A Study in His Ideology Turgenev: The Man, His Art and His Age The Jews and Other Minor Nationalities under the Soviets Picturesque United States of America Russian Literature Dostoevsky: A Life. Later expanded and published as Dostoevsky: His Life and Art Early Polish Americana: A Bibliographical Study Russian Americana: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries Century of Russian Radicalism">The Century Company">Century of Russian Radicalism 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 A Russian's American Dream: A Memoir on William Frey The Russian Literary Imagination Dostoevsky: Works and Days
EditorThe Works of Alexander Pushkin A Treasury of Great Russian Short Stories: Pushkin to Gorky The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings Hitherto Untranslated Soviet Short Stories Russians, Then and Now: A Selection of Russian Writing from the Seventeenth Century to Our Own Day More Tales of Faraway Folk The Letters of Anton Chekhov The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky
Editor and translatorModern Russian Poetry. Edited the first revision of Constance Garnett's 1912 translation of The Brothers Karamazov, Revised and published as A Treasury of Russian Verse, An Anthology of Russian Verse, 1816-1960, and Two Centuries of Russian Verse: An Anthology from Lomonosov to Voznesensky.Contemporary German Poetry: An Anthology
- ''The Portable Chekhov''