Zinaida Zhitomirskaya

Zinaida Zhitomirskaya (1918–1980) was a Soviet librarian, translator and bibliographer who researched German literature.

Biography Zinaida Zhitomirskaya was born in a Jewish family in Dnipro, modern-day Ukraine. In the 1920s, she moved to Moscow with her parents. She studied Germanic languages at the Moscow Institute for Philosophy, Literature and History which was later merged with the Moscow State University.

In the 1930s, Zhitomirskaya married Oleg Erastov who worked as a lecturer at the Moscow Planetarium. Soon after the birth of her only child, Konstantin Erastov, Zhitomirskaya moved to Dushanbe, Tajikistan, where her father worked as a microbiologist.

After returning to Moscow in 1944, she started working at the All-Union Library for Foreign Literatures. Her work at the library included compiling bibliographic indexes and reference books on the works of German authors as well as the Russian translations of their books and critical responses to them. She has also translated a number of adventure books from English into Russian.

In 1978, she emigrated from the USSR to the United States with her son Konstantin.

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