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Grigory Vinokur

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Grigory Vinokur · Arts & Literature

What

Literary & drama critic

When

1896, Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland) — 1947, Moscow, Soviet Union

Where

Russian Empire · Soviet Union

Biography

Grigory Vinokur is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Literary & drama critic

How & why

Vinokur was a Russian linguist, literary historian and critic, an influential figure in the study of stylistics, the culture and history of the Russian language, and the language of Pushkin, and a contributor to Ushakov's major Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language. He was a professor at Moscow State University and a member of the Academy's Pushkin Commission. He was born into a Jewish merchant family and was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Literary & Drama Critics

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Literary & drama critic

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Literary & Drama Critics