Lydia T. Black

Kodiak, Alaska, Anthropology, American Book Awards, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Herausgegeben:Garfield, Norton Fausto

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lydia T. Black (December 16, 1925 Kiev, Ukraine - March 12, 2007 Kodiak, Alaska) was an American anthropologist. She won an American Book Award for Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804. She grew up in Kiev. Her father was executed in 1933, and her mother died of tuberculosis in 1941. During World War II, she was sent to a German forced labor camp. After the war, in Munich, she was a janitor. She was enlisted by the Americans as a translator, at the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration displaced children s camp, since she could speak six languages. She married Igor Black, and immigrated in 1950. She graduated from Brandeis University with a B.A., and M.A. in 1971, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a Ph.D. in 1973. She taught at Providence College beginning in 1973. She taught at the University of Alaska Fairbanks from 1984 to 1998. She worked translating and cataloging the Russian archives of Saint Herman's Orthodox Theological Seminary, earning the Cross of St. Herman. She is buried at Kodiak City Cemetery.

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• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing / Anim Publishing
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786138032397
• ISBN-10: 613803239X
• Artikelnr.: 34498314