Nina Gourfinkel

Nina Gourfinkel was born to Jewish parents in Odessa. Her sister was the journalist, writer and translator Juliette Pary. Her father was a doctor who had previously practiced in Saint Petersburg. In 1925 Gourfinkel moved to Paris. She was a friend of Irène Némirovsky, and established herself as an expert on contemporary Russian theatre. In summer 1940 Gourfinkel started working to provide relief for people displaced by World War II. In 1941, together with Joseph Weill of OSE and Alexandre Glasberg, she helped found an organization providing hostels in the Zone libre for men and women, mostly Jews, who had been released from French internment camps. She continued working for the organization in Lyon after the war. ==Works==

• 'Les nouvelles méthodes d'histoire littéraire en Russie', Le Monde Slave, Vol. 6 (1929), pp.234-263 • Théâtre russe contemporain [Contemporary Russian theatre]. Paris: Albert, 1930 • (tr. with Léon Chancerel) ''Ma vie dans l'art'' by Konstantin Stanislavski. Paris: Ed. Albert, 1934. • Tolstoï sans tolstoïsme [Tolstoy without Tolstoyism]. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1946 • (tr. with Dominique Arban) Correspondance de Dostoievski: Première traduction intégrale et conforme au texte russe [Correspondence of Dostoyevsky: a first complete translation in accordance with the Russian text]. Paris : Calman-Lévy, 1949. 4 vols. • Aux prises avec mon temps [Struggles with my time]. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1953. Vol. 1 ''Naissance d'un monde [Birth of a world]; vol. 2 L'autre patrie'' [The other homeland]. • Constantin Stanislavski. Paris: L'Arche, 1955 • Nicolas Gogol, dramaturge. Paris: L'Arche, 1956. • (tr. with Jacques Mauclair) Ivanov by Anton Chekhov. In Théâtre complet, Vol. 1. Paris : L'Arche,, 1958 • Lenin. New York: Grove Press, 1961. Translated by Maurice Thornton from the French Lénine. • Gorky. New York: Grove Press, 1960. Translated by Ann Feshbach from the French. • Dostoïevski, notre contemporain [Dostoyevsky our contemporary]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1961 • (tr. and ed.) Le théâtre théâtral [Theatrical theatre] by Vsevolod Meyerhold. Paris: Gallimard, 1963. • Anton Tchékhov: textes de Tchékhov, documents, chronologie, répertoire des oeuvres, bibliographie, illustrations. Paris: Seghers, 1966 ==References==