Isidor Geimovich Levin ( September 20, 1919 , Dvinsk - July 27, 2018 ) is a Soviet and Estonian folklorist and cultural scientist of Latvian origin. Professor ( Professor Emeritus ) of the St. Petersburg Institute of Religion and Philosophy. Doctor of Science (1967).
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Biography
The early years
Born on September 20, 1919 in the city of Daugavpils (Latvia) . In less than six years, he was sent to study at a Jewish six-year school, where teaching was conducted in the Hebrew language, which was not spoken anywhere else. Then he entered a four-year-old Jewish gymnasium. He received a certificate of maturity only in 1937. Pupils of the University of Jerusalem were teachers at the gymnasium. In 1937, I. Levin entered the Tartu (Derpt) University of Estonia at the Department of Jewish Sciences, which was organized at the request of Albert Einstein to save the Jewish sciences in Europe when they were liquidated in Germany under Nazi regime. Then, Professor Lazar Gulkovich from the University of Leipzig was invited to Tartu. Isidor Levin's specialty was "Comparative Estonian and World Folklore" by Professor Walter Anderson. In addition, he studied biblical studies and oriental studies at the Faculty of Religions under Professor Hugo Masing.
World War II
Uku Masing , a teacher and mentor of Levin, in whose house he also rented a room, together with his wife and friends helped the Jew Isidor hide from the Nazis . However, later Levin nevertheless fell into their hands and spent several years under false names in camps and prisons in Estonia and Germany, and he had a hand in distorting questionnaires when translating the answers of other prisoners in order to save people from destruction. After his release in 1945, he was a translator with Soviet soldiers, then reached Latvia, found Masinga, but was soon arrested by the Soviet authorities. After about a year in custody, he was acquitted and released.
After the war
He was engaged in science, tried to create the conditions under which Estonian scientists could continue to work in their fields under the conditions of Soviet rule in the Baltic states [4] . He made an academic career in the USSR . I. Levin completed postgraduate studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad. In 1968 he defended a dissertation on the history of an ancient Babylonian subject and received a doctorate in philological sciences. I. Levin has many scientific publications. For scientific services I. Levin became the laureate of prizes in Italy, Austria and Germany. as a member of the "Study College of Berlin", he prepared a methodology of folklore documentation of Yiddish culture.
In 2001, he received the 4th Class Estonian Order of the White Star. He presented his personal library to the University of Tartu . In 2012, he received Estonian citizenship for his contribution to culture, which he first bothered in 1940 [5] [4] .
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- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 10751107X // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ https://lebenswege.faz.net/traueranzeige/xqg-dooh-qjhk-uljhq/54005206
- ↑ 1 2 Academic Granted Citizenship 72 Years After Applying (February 2, 2012). Date of treatment February 3, 2012.
- ↑ Scientist Isidore Levin received citizenship for special merit