Levitan (Lewitan) Liya (Lija) Solomonovna (born August 6, 1922, Senno, Belarus) - associate professor and habilitated doctor of philology.

In 1948, Liya Levitan graduated from the philological faculty of Leningrad University with a degree in Russian philology, where she also received a degree in Russian literature teaching. From 1951 to 1994, she taught at the Daugavpils Pedagogical Institute in the Department of Russian and World Literature (from 1951 to 1959) and was an associate professor in the Department of Russian and World Literature of the Faculty of Philology. She defended her candidate's dissertation, “Russian Soviet Drama in the First Decade of Soviet Power,” and her doctoral dissertation, “The Traditions of A. Chekhov in Russian Soviet Short Stories” (recognized by the Latvian Academy of Sciences in 1992). She is the author of numerous publications. She participated in World War II as a nurse and was awarded the medals “For the Defense of Leningrad” (1943), “For Victory over Germany” (1946), “For Military Merit” (1952), and the medal “For Labor Valor” (1970). In 1994, Liya Levitan emigrated to Israel and settled down in Hadera.

Works: Let's Analyze the Text (Давайте разберем текст). Riga, 1966; Plot and Idea (Сюжет и идея). Riga, 1973; Plot in the Artistic System of a Literary Work (Сюжет в художественной системе литературного произведения), Riga, 1990; Fundamentals of Studying Plot (Основы изучения сюжета). Riga, 1991.