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SurnameYavich
NameKhaim
Birth year1860
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Zislin Meyer Natanovich (1916)

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NameMeyer
PatronymNatanovich
Birth year1916
birth_placeDvinsk
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Zislin Meyer Natanovich (1916, Dvinsk) — orientalist, linguist.

In 1948 Meyer Zislin graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University. From 1950 — research fellow at the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Candidate of Philological Sciences (1975). His main fields of research were Semitology, Hebrew studies, literary studies, and linguistics. Author of about 20 scholarly works.

Works:

On the Significance of the Grammatical Treatise of Abu-l-Faraj Harun “al-Kafi” Problems of Oriental Studies. 1960. No. 3. The Eastern School of Hebrew Grammarians in the 10th–13th Centuries Semitic Languages. Moscow, 1965. Part 2.

On an Original System of Hebrew Grammar (11th–12th Centuries) History, Culture, and Languages of the Peoples of the East. Moscow, 1970. On the Reliability of the Masoretic Phonetic System History and Philology of the Ancient East. Moscow, 1976.