Avrahm Yarmolinsky

Avrahm (Abraham) Yarmolinsky
Born	January 13, 1890 Haisin, Ukraine
Died	September 28, 1975 (aged 85) New York, New York, United States
Education	University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, certificat, 1913 Free Academy (now City College of the City University of New York), A.B., 1916 Columbia University, Ph.D., 1921
Occupation	writer
Employer	New York Public Library
Spouse(s)	Babette Deutsch (m. 1921)
Children	Adam Yarmolinsky Michael B. Yarmolinsky
Parent(s)	Bezalel Yarmolinsky Malka (Nemoy) Yarmolinsky
Notes
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Avrahm Yarmolinsky (January 13, 1890 – September 28, 1975) was an author, translator and the husband of Babette Deutsch.^[1][2]

Yarmolinsky was head of the Slavonic Division of the New York Public Library 1918-1955.^[2] He also taught in the Columbia University and the City College of New York.

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 ^[3]
• 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

References

1. "Avrahm (Abraham) Yarmolinsky". Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. 2002. Gale Document Number: GALE|H1000108792. Retrieved 2014-02-25. Biography in Context.
2. Liptzin, Sol (2007). "Avrahm Yarmolinsky". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred. Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA. Gale Document Number: GALE|K2587521201. Retrieved 2014-02-25. Biography in Context.
3. Online archives

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

• Works by Avrahm Yarmolinsky at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Avrahm Yarmolinsky at Internet Archive
• Works by Avrahm Yarmolinsky at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)