Avrahm (Abraham) Yarmolinsky
Avrahm Yarmolinsky in 1919.
Born	(1890-01-13)January 13, 1890 Haisin, Ukraine
Died	September 28, 1975(1975-09-28) (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	Babette Deutsch ​ (m. 1921)​
Children	Adam Yarmolinsky Michael B. Yarmolinsky
Parents	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]

He attended the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland before emigrating to USA in 1913. He received a bachelor's degree from City College of New York in 1916 and his doctorate from Columbia University in 1921. He married Babette Deutsch in 1921^[3]

Yarmolinsky was head of the Slavonic Division of the New York Public Library from 1918 to 1955.^[2] He also taught at Columbia University and the City College of New York.^[4]

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 ^[5]
• 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^[6]