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Elye Spivak

1890–1950

Occupation
linguist

Eliyahu "Elye" Spivak (Yiddish: אֵלִיָּהוּ ״עליע״ ספּיוואַק‎, Russian: Эля Гершевич Спивак; 10 December 1890 – 4 April 1950) was a Soviet Jewish linguist, philologist, and pedagogue.

Incarceration history

  1. Lefortovo Prison
    Dates unknown
  2. Lefortovo Prison
    Dates unknown

Biography

Eliyahu "Elye" Spivak (Yiddish: אֵלִיָּהוּ ״עליע״ ספּיוואַק‎, Russian: Эля Гершевич Спивак; 10 December 1890 – 4 April 1950) was a Soviet Jewish linguist, philologist, and pedagogue.