Lev Ozerov

Boris Dralyuk (University of California, Los Angeles)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 10 Aug 1914
Died 18 Mar 1996

Places

Born in Ukraine
Active in Ukraine

Cultural Identities

Jewish European

Activities

Primary

Poet

Resources

Ozerov's Works

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Lev Ozerov was, in a number of ways, a typical Soviet Jewish man of letters. Born Lev Adol’fovich Gol’dberg in Kyiv, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire) on 10 August 1914, he adopted a Russian-sounding pseudonym in the middle of the 1930s, a common practice among Soviet public figures of Jewish origin. Trained at the prestigious Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature, and History (MIFLI), he built an exceptionally productive career as a poet, translator, critic, editor and teacher. After the Second World War he was targeted in the anti-Semitic “anti-cosmopolitan” campaign, but won back the tolerance, if never quite the favour, of the authorities after Stalin’s death. Elements of this brief sketch can be mapped onto the careers of many other Soviet Jewish authors, born…

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Citation: Dralyuk, Boris. "Lev Ozerov". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 March 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13317, accessed 23 November 2024.]