Author Biography
Ieremiia Aizenshtok (1900-1980) graduated in 1921 from the Faculty of History and Philology of Kharkiv University, where he later became a postgraduate student and a researcher. In 1926, he was appointed academic secretary of the newly established Taras Shevchenko Institute, where he began to work actively in order to collect and study the Ukrainian literary heritage. In 1931-1934 he worked in the Party Publishing House of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. From 1934, he worked at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) in Leningrad. In 1941, he went to the front as a volunteer. After the war, he worked at the Research Institute of Theatre and Music, taught at the Departments of Russian Literature at Kyiv and Leningrad Universities, and later at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. He also headed the literary translation section of the Leningrad Section of the Union of RSFSR Writers. He is considered one of the main voices of Ukrainian formalism.