Dr. Lazar Fleishman

Biography

Lazar Fleishman studied at the Music Academy in Riga, Latvia, graduating from Latvian State University in 1966. During his university years, he published scholarly papers on Pushkin, Russian elegy, and Boris Pasternak. Emigrating to Israel in 1974, he began his academic career in the Department of Russian Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He co-founded and co-edited the Slavica Hierosolymitana series, Slavic Studies at Hebrew University, from 1977 to 1984. He has held visiting professorships at several prestigious institutions, including the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University. He joined the faculty at Stanford University in 1985, where he has taught Russian literature and literary theory extensively. His research interests focus on 19th and 20th-century Russian literature, particularly the works of Pushkin and Pasternak, as well as poetics, literary theory, and Russian émigré literature.

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