Wiktor Weintraub

Wiktor Weintraub (April 10, 1908 – July 14, 1988) was a Polish historian who specialized in history of Polish literature.

Born in a Polish Jewish family, Weintraub fled Poland during World War II. During this period, he worked for the Polish government in exile.

After the war, Weintraub spent time in British Palestine, the United Kingdom and then the United States. He was a professor at Harvard University.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Among his most significant works are his studies about Adam Mickiewicz.^[6] He has been described as an "expert on Mickiewicz thought."^[7]

References

1. Baranczak, Stanislaw (1988). "In Memoriam: Wiktor Weintraub (1908-1988)". The Slavic and East European Journal. 32 (4): 643–645. ISSN 0037-6752. JSTOR 308774.
2. "Weintraub Wiktor | Wirtualny Sztetl". sztetl.org.pl. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
3. Wandycz, Piotr (1989). "Wiktor Weintraub". Slavic Review. 48 (2): 352–353. doi:10.1017/S0037677900160735. ISSN 0037-6779.
4. "Wiktor Weintraub, 80, Slavic Studies Scholar". The New York Times. 1988-07-16. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
5. Zdzisław Pietrzyk Wiktor Weintraub (1908-1988), chapter in Academics of Jewish heritage in the modern history of the Jagiellonian University, 2014, Kraków : Jagiellonian University Press, p. 285-293
6. WALICKI, ANDRZEJ (1988). "Wiktor Weintraub as a Mickiewicz Scholar". The Polish Review. 33 (1): 1–10. ISSN 0032-2970. JSTOR 25778323.
7. Serhiy Bilenky (16 May 2012). Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations. Stanford University Press. pp. 343–. ISBN 978-0-8047-8056-8.