CONTRIBUTORS
BORIS SHRAGIN, who emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1974, teaches
philosophy at Columbia University. ... YUZ ALESHKOVSKY, novelist and
lecturer at Wesleyan University, emigrated to the United States in 1979.
. .. JAN KOn left Warsaw in the late 1960s and now teaches literature at
SUNY at Stony Brook.. . . ANDREI SINIAVSKI is an eminent literary
critic, scholar, and fiction writer who currently teaches at the Sorbonne.
. . . VASSILY AKSYONOV, author of A Ticket to the Stars and The Burn,
emigrated to the U.S. In 1980... . PAVEL LlTVINOV works on The Chron–
icle of CUrrent Events, a journal of human rights in the Soviet Union. .. .
SERGEI DOVLATOV, best known for his stories about the criminal con–
centration camps where he served as an army guard, will soon publish a
new collection of short stories.... VIKTOR NEKRASOV has been a mem–
ber of the editorial board of Kontinent, a Russian emigre journal in Paris,
since his emigration seven years ago.... EFIM ETKIND teaches at the
University of Nanterre, France.... VLADIMIR VOINOVICH has
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many satiric short stories, including Ivan Chonkin. .. . ERAZIM KOHAK
teaches philosophy at Boston University.... EUGEN LOEBL Is author of
Sentenced and Tried: The Stalinist Purges in Czechoslovakia . ... MANES
SPERBER, the well known novelist, critic, and political essayist who lives
in Paris, has just won the German Peace Prize.... JOSEPH McELROY's
novels include Plus and Lookout Cartridge. Women and Men will appear
next year.. . . RUDOLF M. KRUEGER emigrated from Russia in 1981 and
now lives in Arizona.... DARINA SILONE, Ignazio Silone's widow, lives in
Rome... . JACOB GLATSHTEYN was born In Poland and studied law in
the United States after his emigration In 1914.... M. L. HALPERN emi–
grated to the United States from Galicia in 1908 where he became a
leader of modern Yiddish poets.... A. LEYELES was born in Poland,
studied at the University of London and emigrated to New York in 1909.
. . . After leaving Poland, J. L. TELLER continued his studies at Columbia
University and later owned and edited an independent Jewish newspa–
per.... DIANA PINTO, who teaches at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Science Soclales in Paris, writes frequently on postwar Europe and
America.... HERBERT FERBER, the sculptor and painter, was a member
of the group which later came to be known as the New York School, and
has works in numerous private collections and museums In the United
States, Europe, and Japan.... JOEL SCHECHTER Is editor of Theater
Magazine and teaches at the Yale·School of Drama.... ELAINE HOFF·
MAN BARUCH Is associate professor of English at York College of City
University of New York and coeditor of Women in Search of Utopia. . . .
PERRY MEISEL teaches English at New York University. His books In–
clude The Absent Father and Freud: A Collection of Critical Essays. ...
PETER LOEWENBERG is Professor of History at the University of Cali–
fornia at Los Angeles, a psychoanalyst, and the author of Decoding the
Past: The Psychohistorical Approach. ... FRANK KERMODE's latest
book is The Art of Telling. ... ANTHONY GIDDENS is a fellow of Kings
College, Cambridge University and the author of Profiles and Critiques in
Social Theory. ... PAUL HOLLANDER is a professor of sociology at the
University of Massachusetts in Amherst and a fellow of the Russian Re–
search Center of Harvard University.... D. S. CARNE·ROSS teaches
Classics at Boston University. He is the author of Instaurations: Essays
In and Out of LiteraturelPindar to Pound. . .. CHARLES MOLESWORTH's
latest book is Gary Snyder's Vision. He is a professor at Yale University.
