Anatoly Yakobson
| Anatoly Aleksandrovich Yakobson | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Анатолий Александрович Якобсон |
| Born |
April 30, 1935 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Died | September 28, 1978 (aged 43) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Citizenship |
Soviet Union Israel |
| Alma mater | Moscow State Pedagogical University |
| Occupation | literary critic, translator, teacher |
| Known for | Editor of the Chronicle of Current Events and co-founder of the Initiative Group on Human Rights in the USSR |
| Movement | Human rights movement in the Soviet Union |
| Spouse(s) | Maya Ulanovskaya |
Anatoly Aleksandrovich Yakobson (Russian: Анато́лий Алекса́ндрович Якобсо́н; 30 April 1935, Moscow — 28 September 1978, Jerusalem) was a literary critic, teacher, poet and a central figure in the human rights movement in the Soviet Union.
Yakobson was born in 1935 in Moscow. From 1953 to 1958 he studied history at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute.
Yakobson taught literature and history at Moscow's mathematical school #2. He included writers in his teaching which did not appear on the official syllabus, such as Mikhail Bulgakov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Anna Akhmatova or Osip Mandelshtam. He translated works by Paul Verlaine, Théophile Gautier and Hovhannes Tumanyan, Miguel Hernández and Federico García Lorca.
Yakobson was among those who spoke up against the Sinyavsky–Daniel trial in 1966, writing an open letter to the court.
In 1968, when the interest of the KGB in Yakobson's activities became too serious, he quit his position at the school, explaining to the director that it would not be in the school's interest to have one of its teachers arrested as an anti-Soviet dissident.
Yakobson went on to become a founding member of the dissident Initiative Group on Human Rights in the USSR in 1969. He put his signature under its first Appeal to The UN Committee for Human Rights. He resigned from the group after a courier from the emigre anti-Soviet organisation NTS contacted him, mistaking him for a co-conspirator.
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