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Maurice Friedberg (1929–2014)

Author of Russian classics in Soviet jackets

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Works by Maurice Friedberg

Russian classics in Soviet jackets (1962) 8 copies

A Bilingual Collection Of Russian Short Stories - Volume One - Dual Language English And Russian - First Mass Market… (1964) 8 copies

Literary Translation in Russia: A Cultural History (1996) 5 copies

Soviet society under Gorbachev : current trends and the prospects for reform (1987) 5 copies

The Red Pencil: Artists, Scholars, and Censors in the Ussr. (Special Study of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian… (1989) 2 copies

Decade of Euphoria: Western Literature in Post-Stalin Russia, 1954-64 (1977) 2 copies

A bilingual collection of Russian short stories 2 copies

How Things Were Done in Odessa: Cultural and Intellectual Pursuits in a Soviet City (1991) 1 copy

Russian Short Stories Volume 1 1 copy

Associated Works

The Twelve Chairs (1928) — Introduction, some editions — 924 copies, 18 reviews

Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy (2007) — Translator — 103 copies

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Birthdate: 1929
Date of death: 2014-08-15
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Rzeszow, Poland
Place of death: Washington, D.C., USA
Organizations: Hunter College
Indiana University
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Awards and honors: Fulbright Scholar (1965-66)
Guggenheim Fellow (1971, 1981)
Short biography: "He arrived in the United States in 1948 speaking no English and worked in garment factories while attending night school, eventually earning a Ph.D. from Columbia University."

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Statistics

Works: 9
Also by: 2
Members: 34
Popularity: #413,653
Rating: 4.0

ISBNs: 13
Languages: 1

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