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Avrahm Yarmolinsky (January 13, 1890 – September 28, 1975) was an author, translator, and the husband of Babette Deutsch. Biography in Context. Yarmolinsky was head of the Slavonic Division of the New York Public Library from 1918 to 1955. He also taught at
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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'' * ''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


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; *
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, May 3, 1959; * New York Times Book Review, May 10, 1959; * Commonweal, August 28, 1959


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