Irwin Weil Podcast

"From the Cincinnati Reds to the Moscow Reds: The Memoirs of Irwin Weil" is available from Academic Studies Press 5/1/2015.

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This book brings together a lifetime of experiences told by a beloved member of the field of Slavic languages and literature—Irwin Weil. During the Soviet era, Irwin frequently visited and corresponded with outstanding Russian cultural figures, such as Vladimir Nabokov, Korney Chukovsky, and Dmitrii Shostakovich. His deep love of the Russian people and their culture has touched the lives of countless students, in particular at Northwestern University, where he has taught since 1966. It is these stories of an unassuming Jewish American from Cincinnati, Ohio who rubbed shoulders with some of the most prominent thinkers, writers, and musicians in the Soviet Union that are presented for the first time in this volume.

Photograph 1: Irwin Weil in 1978 at St. Basil’s Cathedral near the Kremlin on Red Square.

Photograph 2: (from left to right) Irwin Weil, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Alex Dunkel at a radio interview held at WFMT.

Photograph 3: Irwin Weil at the art deco stairway in the Riabushinsky mansion given to Gorky by Stalin.

Photograph 4: Ilya Tolstoy standing beside Irwin Weil.

Photograph 5: Irwin Weil receiving an honorary degree from Efim Pivovar, Rector of Moscow State University for the Humanities.

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