Isidor Levin

Isidor Levin ( Latvian Izidors Levin ) ( born September 20, 1919 in Daugavpils, Latvia ) is a Latvian living in Russia folklorist, narrative researcher and theologian.

Career

Isidor Levin studied 1937-1941 Estonian and Comparative Folklore at Walter Anderson and Oskar Loorits and Judaism, Semitic studies, religious history and biblical studies at the University of Tartu (formerly Dorpat ). He lived with his colleague Uku Masing and his wife Eha to sublet and survived thanks to the support of the invasion of the German troops and the first coercive measures against Jews. Uku Masing and Eha received from Yad Vashem for the title of Righteous Among the Nations. On March 16, 1942 Levin was arrested during a raid of the Security Service. Between 1942 and 1945, Levin was held captive in prisons and various concentration camps, most recently in Stutthof concentration camp, he fell back in Tartu again imprisoned, this time in Soviet, but was acquitted custody after eight months. In 1947 he was the candidate test for comparative folklore. From 1952 to 1955 he studied Russian language and literature at the Pedagogical University in Leningrad and then completed a post graduate course in distance learning. The following year he became a lecturer in German folklore at the Leningrad Institute of German Studies. In 1967 he habilitated with an investigation into the Etana myth at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Between 1966 and 1984 he was commissioned by the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, head of a research team in Dushanbe, to create a large body of work also on behalf of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia in Yerevan with the aim to organize the folklore archives from 1970 as well as local researchers train. He is now Professor Emeritus at the University of Saint Petersburg, Yerevan and Dushanbe.

Isidor Levin is one of the founding members of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research ( ISFNR ) and is an honorary member of the Folklore Fellows.

Prizes and awards

Publications

• Etana. The cuneiform evidence of a narrative. In: Fabula, Vol 8 (1966 ), pp. 1-63.
• Tales of the Caucasus. Edited by Isidor Levin. Translated by Gisela 's Schukowitzgasse. Dusseldorf 1978 ( The Tales of World Literature ).
• Armenian fairy tales. Edited by Isidor Levin in connection with Uku Masing. Translated by Gisela 's Schukowitzgasse. Dusseldorf 1982 ( The Tales of World Literature ).
• Tsarevitch the fire flow. Russian Tale of the White Sea coast. Edited by Isidor Levin. Translated from Russian by Gisela 's Schukowitzgasse. Kassel 1984 ( The face of the peoples; 50).
• Tale of the roof of the world. Traditions of the Pamir peoples. Edited by Isidor Levin. Translated by Gisela 's Schukowitzgasse. Cologne 1986 ( The Tales of World Literature ).
• Fairy tales and Jews. In: Fairy tale mirror, Issue 2/1998 (5 pages)