Tsilevich Leonid Markovich (Maksovich) (13.12.1925, Kharkov) — philologist, literary scholar. Doctor of Philological Sciences (1983), professor (1986). During the Second World War he studied at a military school, and then worked on a military newspaper in Leningrad. In 1951 he completed the philology faculty of Leningrad State University. In 1952—94 he worked at the Daugavpils Pedagogical Institute — assistant at the department of Russian and foreign literature (1952—54), senior lecturer (1954—64), associate professor (1964—85), professor (1985—94), head of the department. He was awarded the medal “For Labor Valor” (1970). Board member of the Daugavpils branch of the Latvian Jewish Cultural Society. Editor of inter-university thematic collections and of the book “Jews in Daugavpils: Historical Essays” (Daugavpils, 1993). Member of the Chekhov Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1993 he moved to Israel, and founded in Hadera a museum devoted to participants in the Great Patriotic War.

Works: Plot in the Structure of a Miniature Work. Leningrad, 1960; On the Main Direction: Questions of the Development of the Contemporary Soviet Novel about the Working Class. Moscow—Leningrad, 1964; Plot and Idea. Riga, 1973; The Plot of Chekhov's Short Story. Riga, 1976; Fundamentals of Studying the Plot. Riga, 1990.

Lit.: Daugavpils pedagoģiskā Universitāte. Pētniecība un zinātne 80 gados / Biogrāfisks rādītājs. 1991—2000. Daugavpils, DPU izdevniecība «Saule». 2001. Lpp. 18.

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