Yevsei Lvovich Zeitlin
Jewsei Lwowitsch Zeitlin ( Russian Евсей Львович Цейтлин , scientific transliteration Evsej L'vovič Cejtlin ; * 1948 in Omsk / Siberia ) is a Russian literary scholar and writer.
Life
Zeitlin studied journalism and Russian literature. He was a university professor and spent many years traveling to research the life of Kyrgyz villagers, Siberian shamans or the dying northern peoples. In 1987 he began to record the stories of Soviet Jews.
For his book Long Conversations in Expectation of a Happy Death , in which he documents the life stories of Lithuanian Jews, Zeitlin lived in Lithuania between 1990 and 1997 .
Zeitlin is editor-in-chief of the religious-political-cultural-historical newspaper "Schalom" in Chicago , where he has lived since 1996.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jewsei Lwowitsch Zeitlin in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zeitlin, Yevsei Lvovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Цейтлин, Евсей Львович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian literary scholar and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Omsk |