Background
Yarmolinsky, Avrahm was born in 1890 in Russia, January 1 (O.S.). Son of Bezaleel and Malka (Nemoy) Yarmolinsky.
Yarmolinsky, Avrahm was born in 1890 in Russia, January 1 (O.S.). Son of Bezaleel and Malka (Nemoy) Yarmolinsky.
Educated U. Neuchatel (Switzerland) 1913. Bachelor of Arts, College City New York, 1916. Doctor of Philosophy., Columbia University, 1921.
2 sons. Came to the United States, 1913, naturalized, 1922. Instructor Russian evening session College City New York, 1917-1918. Instructor Russian language and literature extension division Columbia, 1919-1920.
Chief Slavonic division New York Public Library, 1918-1955.
Author: Turgenev The Man, His Art and His Age, 1926, review edit., 1959. The Jews and Other Minor Nationalities Under the Soviets, 1928. Picturesque United States of America, a Memoir on Svinin, 1930.
Russian Literature, 1931. Dostoevsky, A Life, 1934, review edit., 1957. Early Polish Americana, 1937.
Russian Americana, 1943. Road to Revolution, 1957, translation into German, 1968. Literature Under Communism, 1960.
A Russian’s American Dream, 1965. The Russian Literary Imagination, 1969. Dostoevsky, Works and Days, 1971.
Others. Translator: The Russian School of Painting, 1916. Memoirs of Count Witte, 1921. (with Babette Deutsch) Modern Russian Poetry, an Anthology, 1921, Contemporary German Poetry, 1923, Russian Poetry, an Anthology, 1927, The Twelve, 1931.
Others. Editor: The Brothers Karamazov (by Dostoevsky, Garnett’s translation revised), 1933. The Possessed (Dostoevsky, Garnett’s translation), 1936. The Works of Alexander Pushkin, 1936.
(with Baroness Moura Budberg) A Book of Short Stories by Maxim Gorki, 1939. (with B. Deutsch) Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, 1943, review, 1965. A Treasury of of Great Russian Short Stories, 1944.
Chichikov’s Journeys by Nikolai Gogol (transl B. G. Gwernsey), 1944. The Portable Chekhov, 1947. (with B. Deutsch) A Treasury of Russian Verse, 1949, review edit., 1963.
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky, Garnett’s translation revised), 1951. The Unknown Chekhov, 1954. The Idiot (Dostoevsky), 1956.
Russians Then and Now, 1963. (with B. Deutsch) Two Centuries of Russian Verse, 1966. Tales of Faraway Folk, 1952, More Tales of Faraway Folk, 1963, Leskov, The Steel Flea, 1943, review edit., 1964.
Three Short Novels (Dostoevsky, Garnett’s translation revised). 1960
Letters of Anton Chekhov, 1973. Co-editor: The Heritage of European Literature, 2 vols., 1948-1949.
Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Babette Deutsch.