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    Burshteyn, Arn & Brokhe

    1934–

    Arn was born in Kiev; his father was an agronomist and his mother a bookkeeper. He graduated middle school in Birobidzhan and in 1957 the radio department of the Tomsk Polytechnical Institute. He worked as a designer, later becoming a senior scientific associate at a scholarly institute. Beginning in 1976, he published stories and essays in the Moscow journal Sovetish Heymland (Soviet Homeland), together with his wife Brokhe Burshteyn.

    Brokhe was born in Czernowitz, into the home of a construction engineer. She graduated from middle school in Tomsk in 1953 and from the Sverdlovsk Polytechnical Institute in 1958. She served as the head of construction in the farming division of the All-Union Scientific Academy.

    Their works include: 

    Dos Ershte Feld (The First Field), stories and notes (Moscow: Sovetski Pisatel, 1980), 62 pp.; 

    “Permer sotsyologn” (Perm sociologists), in the anthology In Undzere Teg, Fartseykhenungen fun Yidishe Shrayber (In Our Time, Notes of Yiddish Writers) (Moscow: Sovetski Pisatel, 1983);

    “Dertseylungen” (Stories), in Eynikeyt (Unity), prose collection (Moscow, 1988).

    Ineynem: Proze-Zamlung (Altogether : Prose Collection). - Moskve : Sovetski Pisatel, 1988.- 524, [4] pp., photo, portr. Chapter on Burshteyn, Arn & Brokhe p. 11-166. They contributed 13 stories.

    Images and PDF of Table of Contents from Ineynem courtesy of the Russian State Library (Moscow), Oriental Centre. (RSL system # 15655938)





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