Background
Levinton, Georgiy Akhillovich was born on November 15, 1948 in Leningrad, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Akhill Grigoryevich Levinton and Olga Lazarevna Fishman.
Folklore and literary educator
Levinton, Georgiy Akhillovich was born on November 15, 1948 in Leningrad, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Akhill Grigoryevich Levinton and Olga Lazarevna Fishman.
Graduate, Leningrad State University, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy, Institute Slavistics, Moscow, 1989.
Researcher in training, Institute Theater, Leningrad, 1972-1974;
research fellow, Institute Ethnology, St. Petersburg, 1989-1992;
senior research fellow, Anthropol. Museum, St. Petersburg, 1992-1996;
professor folklore, European U. at St. Petersburg, since 1996. Lecturer Hebrew U., St. Petersburg, 1992-1994.
Visiting professor University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 1994-1995. Guest fellow Oxford (England) Center for Hebrew Studies, 1993.
Member Mandelstam Society.
Married Larisa Georgievna Stepanova, October 29, 1982.