Avrahm Yarmolinsky
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Avrahm Yarmolinsky was an author, translator and the husband of Babette Deutsch
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Yarmolinsky was head of the Slavonic Division of the New York Public Library
for roughly three decades. He also taught in the Columbia University
and the City College of New York
.
Babette Deutsch
Babette Deutsch was an American poet, critic, translator, and novelist.Born in New York City, the daughter of Michael and Melanie Deutsch, she matriculated from the Ethical Culture School and Barnard College, graduating in 1917 with a B.A...
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Yarmolinsky was head of the Slavonic Division of the New York Public Library
New York Public Library
The New York Public Library is the largest public library in North America and is one of the United States' most significant research libraries...
for roughly three decades. He also taught in the Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
and the City College of New York
City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York , in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning...
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Books
- A treasury of great Russian short stories - from Pushkin to Gorky
- A Treasury of Russian Verse
- Road to Revolution; a Century of Russian Radicalism
- 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