David Aizman

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David Iakovlevich Aizman (1869-1922) was an important Jewish writer in Russian, a friend of Maxim Gorky, who esteemed his works very highly. His novella, "The Krasovitsky Couple," was translated into English by Edgar H. Lehrman, and made into an opera by Leonard Lehrman in 1976. More recent scholarship by Maxim D. Shrayer, who translated Aizman's "Zemlyaki" ("Countrymen," Commentary, 115. 5 (June 2003): 30-40) and others will be featured on this page.

List of U.S. library holdings of works by David Aizman, all in Russian except one in Ukrainian:

Krovavyi razliv i drugie proizvedeniia; Institut rossiiskovo evreistva 1990/1
Columbia, U Colorado Boulder, NYPL, Indiana U, U of KS, Harvard, Cleveland PL, Vanderbilt U

Sbornik rasskasov, red. Solntsev; Leningrad: Priboi 1926
Columbia, Stanford, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Cleveland PL, U Illinois

Sobranie sochinenii; S. Petersburg: Prosveshcenie 1911(?)
Columbia, NYU, Yale, Amherst, Brandeis, Harvard, Cleveland PL; Ohio State microfilm

Razzkazy; S. Peterburg: "Znanie" 1906(-10)
Harvard, Hebrew Union College, Ohio State, Brown, U Wisconsin Madison, Yale

Sbornik khudozhestvennoi literatury "Zhizn'"; S. Peterburg: Tip. V. Bezobrazov, 1908
[joint author with Kuprin et al] Columbia

Dieti i drugie razskazy; Petrograd: "Zhizn' i znanie" 1916
Boston PL

Zemliaki : rasskazy; Leningrad: Priboi, 1929
Ohio State, U Wisconsin Madison

Ternovyi kust - 4-act play;
Berlin: J. Ladyschnikow, 1907 Columbia, Berkeley, Indiana, Harvard
Peterburg: Gos. izd. 1920 U of KS, Columbia, Miami of Ohio, Ohio State
1923 Cleveland PL

also in Ukrainian [Ternovyi kushch] Vinnipeg, 1925 U Minnesota-Minneapolis

Chernye dni : ocherki i razskazy; S. Peterburg: Izd. red. zhurnala "Russkoe bogatstvo," 1904
Harvard, Ohio State, U Wisconsin Madison

Svetlyi Bog : skazka in 4 parts; Peterburg: Gos. izd. 1920
Columbia, U Chicago

Istoriia odnogo prestupleniia; Leningrad: Priboi, 1920s
U of Chicago

Ravnopravie; Soroki: Izd. "Deror" 1917
microfilm at Jewish Theological Seminary, YIVO, U Washington

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