Isidor Levin (Latvian: Izidors Levins; September 20, 1919 – July 24, 2018) was a Latvian Jewish-born Soviet/Estonian folklorist, narrative researcher, theologian, and Professor Emeritus at the St. Petersburg Institute of Religion and Philosophy. Levin was an internationally recognized folklorist, who supported the study of Estonian culture and helped Estonian researchers continue their work during the Soviet occupation.[1]
He was born in Daugavpils, Latvia in September 1919. Levin moved from Latvia to Estonia in 1937 to study at the University of Tartu in the area of Judaic and Semitic studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Jewish Studies. Later he studied Comparative Folklore with Walter Anderson and Oskar Loorits, graduating in 1941. During the Nazi occupation, Levin, who was Jewish, was hidden by his teacher Uku Masing. From 1952 to 1955 he studied Russian language and literature at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute. The following year he became a lecturer in German folklore at the Leningrad Institute of Germanic Studies. In 1967 he obtained a PhD at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
Levin was one of the founding members of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR) and was an honorary member of the Folklore Fellows. He latterly donated his personal library to the University of Tartu and in 2001 was awarded the Order of the White Star, 4th Class, by then-president Lennart Meri. He died in July 2018 at the age of 98.[2]
The memorial to folklorist Isidor Levin (1919-2018) in Tartu, Estonia.
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IsidorLevin (Latvian: Izidors Levins; September 20, 1919 – July 24, 2018) was a Latvian Jewish-born Soviet/Estonian folklorist, narrative researcher...
or collection Type Zarlik and Munglik 1986 Uzbekistan Mansur Afzalov; IsidorLevin, Ilse Laude-Cirtautas Märchen der Usbeken: Samarkand, Buchara, Taschkent...
Masing knew the Jewish folklorist, narrative researcher and theologian IsidorLevin from his teaching days, and decided to hide him from the Germans who...
(2004–2011), Charlie Eppes in the CBS drama series Numb3rs (2005–2010), and Isidor Isaac Rabi in Oppenheimer (2023). Krumholtz has also had other supporting...
collection. University students of Jewish backgrounds (Elias Levenberg, IsidorLevin, Berta Kaplan, Sara Vilenski) recorded most of the material along with...
fine garments, and the padishah recognizes his handkerchief on him. IsidorLevin and Ilse Laude-Cirtautas translated and published an Uzbek tale titled...
the truth to her husband. A Georgian variant was collected by scholar IsidorLevin with the title Die drei Schwestern ("The Three Sisters") and classified...
Canadian feminist philosopher. Walter Hirrlinger, 92, German politician. IsidorLevin, 98, Latvian folklorist. Jack P. Lewis, 99, American Biblical scholar...
collected by Uzbek folklorist Mansur Afzalov and translated into German by IsidorLevin and Ilse Laude-Cirtautas. It is related to the theme of the calumniated...
Archived from the original on 12 January 2024. Retrieved 14 January 2024. Levin, Anthony (21 April 2024). "Gukesh Youngest Ever To Win Candidates Tournament...
Buch- und Medienhandel GmbH. 2015. pp. 289-290. ISBN 978-3-86835-128-6. Levin, Isidor. "Etana. Die keilschriftlichen Belege einer Erzählung". In: Fabula 8...
Forward. "About". Representative Andy Levin. December 3, 2012. "No Gambler: An Interview With Congressman Mike Levin". San Diego Jewish Journal. January...
Pessl Egon Petri Christina Petrowska-Quilico Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade Isidor Philipp Andrzej Pikul Cecilia Pillado George Pinto Maria João Pires Johann...
(Georgian please) (in Georgian) Neulovimyy Yan (Неуловимый Ян) (in Russian) Isidor Annensky, Vladimir Petrov Confrontation between Czechoslovak patriots and...
and founder of the Schocken Verlag), the historian Simon Dubnow, Israel Isidor Elyashev (Ba'al-Machshoves), Uri Zvi Greenberg, Jakob Klatzkin (cofounder...
Companion to Woodrow Wilson. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-44540-2. Levin, Phyllis Lee (2001). Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House. Scribner...
Malchean figure. In his Leimonarion, Moschos recounts meeting a monk named Isidor who had purportedly met a Malchus-type of figure who struck Christ and is...
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