Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.
YUSHKEVICH, SEMYON SOLOMONOVICH — (1868–1927), Russian playwright and novelist. An Odessa physician, Yushkevich published his earliest work in 1897 and was encouraged by maxim gorki to write about Jewish life in Russia. In his plays and narrative works he often contrasted poor,… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
List of Russian language novelists — Russian Writers by Sergei Levitsky, 1856. This is a list of authors who have written works of fiction in the Russian language. The list encompasses novelists and writers of short fiction. For the plain text list, see Category:Russian novelists.… … Wikipedia
RUSSIAN LITERATURE — Biblical and Hebraic Influences The Jewish impact on Russian literature may be traced back 900 years to the period when that body of writing was still the common patrimony of a people that was to emerge later as three distinct East Slavic ethnic… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
