Iosif Amusin was a Soviet historian and orientalist who specialized in the Ancient Near East and Qumran studies. Through 2020 the opening said he taught in Leningrad until the anti-Semitic campaign against the so called "cosmopolitanism" cost him his job. Today the opening ends with his fields of study, and the antisemitic campaign is gone, though antisemitism survives twice in the body. A reader arriving now learns what Amusin studied and not the antisemitic campaign that ended his teaching post.
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Iosif Davidovich Amusin (Russian: Ио́сиф Дави́дович Аму́син ; French: Joseph Amoussine , November 29, 1910, Vitebsk – June 12, 1984, Leningrad) was a Soviet historian , orientalist , hebraist and papyrologyst , was specialist in the history of the Ancient Near East and Qumran studies. Amusin was twice (in 1928 and 1938) arrested and sentenced for Zionist connections and " anti-Soviet " activity (acquitted posthumously in 1989). Graduated from the Historical Faculty of Leningrad University (1935–1941). Served as a medical officer during the Second World War . After 1945, Amusin taught ancient history at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute and the Leningrad University until the anti-Semitic campaign against the so called " cosmopolitanism ," when he lost his job and, after a long period of unemployment, began lecturing at the Ulianovsk Pedagogical Institute (1950–1954). Upon returning in Leningrad in 1954, Amusin became a research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Leningrad. From the late 1950s, he published about 100 works on the Qumran and Dead Sea Scrolls . v t e1
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( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Iosif Davidovich Amusin (Russian: Ио́сиф Дави́дович Аму́син ; French: Joseph Amoussine , November 29, 1910, Vitebsk – June 12, 1984, Leningrad) was a Soviet historian , orientalist , hebraist and papyrologyst , was specialist in the history of the Ancient Near East and Qumran studies. Amusin was twice (in 1928 and 1938) arrested and sentenced for Zionist connections and " anti-Soviet " activity (acquitted posthumously in 1989). Graduated from the Historical Faculty of Leningrad University (1935–1941). Served as a medical officer during the Second World War . After 1945, Amusin taught ancient history at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute and the Leningrad University until the anti-Semitic campaign against the so-called " cosmopolitanism ," when he lost his job and, after a long period of unemployment, began lecturing at the Ulianovsk Pedagogical Institute (1950–1954). Upon returning in Leningrad in 1954, Amusin became a research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Leningrad. From the late 1950s, he published about 100 works on the Qumran and Dead Sea Scrolls . v t e v t e
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Iosif Davidovich Amusin (Russian: Ио́сиф Дави́дович Аму́син ; French: Joseph Amoussine , November 29, 1910, Vitebsk – June 12, 1984, Leningrad) was a Soviet historian , orientalist , hebraist and papyrologyst , was specialist in the history of the Ancient Near East and Qumran studies. Amusin was twice (in 1928 and 1938) arrested and sentenced for Zionist connections and " anti-Soviet " activity (acquitted posthumously in 1989). Graduated from the Historical Faculty of Leningrad University (1935–1941). Served as a medical officer during the Second World War . After 1945, Amusin taught ancient history at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute and the Leningrad University until the anti-Semitic campaign against the so-called " cosmopolitanism ," when he lost his job and, after a long period of unemployment, began lecturing at the Ulianovsk Pedagogical Institute (1950–1954). Upon returning in Leningrad in 1954, Amusin became a research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Leningrad. From the late 1950s, he published about 100 works on the Qumran and Dead Sea Scrolls . v t e v t e
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Soviet historian, orientalist, and papyrologist (1910–1984) In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs , the patronymic is Davidovich and the family name is Amusin . Iosif Davidovich Amusin (Russian: Ио́сиф Дави́дович Аму́син ; French: Joseph Amoussine , November 29, 1910, Vitebsk – June 12, 1984, Leningrad) was a Soviet historian , orientalist , hebraist and papyrologyst , was specialist in the history of the Ancient Near East and Qumran studies.
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Soviet historian, orientalist, and papyrologist (1910–1984) In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs , the patronymic is Davidovich and the family name is Amusin . Iosif Davidovich Amusin ( Russian : Ио́сиф Дави́дович Аму́син ; French: Joseph Amoussine , November 29, 1910, Vitebsk – June 12, 1984, Leningrad) was a Soviet historian , orientalist , hebraist and papyrologyst , and a specialist in the history of the Ancient Near East and Qumran studies.
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