Klavdia Borisovna Starkova... I first heard this name when I was a first-year student of the Moscow State University Faculty of History, when I chose the Qumran manuscripts as the topic of my course work. K. B. Starkova was the first in our country to publish the article "Manuscripts from the surrounding area on the shore of the Dead Sea "(Bulletin of Ancient History. 1956, No. 1. pp. 87-102). In the memoirs of an outstanding Russian orientalist, a group member of K. B. Starkova, I. M. Dyakonov, there is such an anecdote: "One rabbi was asked:" Is it true that everything that was, is and will be written in the Talmud?" He said it was true. - "What does the Talmud say - is it possible to build socialism in one country?" "The Talmud says it's possible." - "But the Rashi (medieval Talmudist Rabbi Shlomo Ben Yitzhak, abbreviated Rashi. - A. L.) says that it will be impossible to live in this country" (I. M. Diakonov. Book of Memories, St. Petersburg, 1995, p. 330). It was in this country that almost the entire life of the outstanding semitologist-Hebraist K. B. Starkova (1915-2000) passed. St. Petersburg: European House, 2006, 356 p. page 204 Thanks to the efforts of the St. Petersburg researcher V. L. Vikhnovich, who managed to make an audio recording of Starkova's memoirs in 1994-1997, and the International Research Center for Russian and Eastern European Jewry Foundation, this publication was made possible. The book includes: an introductory article by I. R. Tantlevsky and V. L. Vikhnovich about K. B. Starkova, which also includes a far from complete list of her main scientific works; actually memoirs of K. B. Starkova; "Memoirs of Klavdia Borisovna Starkova" (V. L. Vikhnovich, E. N. Meshcherskaya, G. M. Gluskina)"; " Review of K. B. Starkova's monograph by G. M. Gluskina; "Articles by K. B. Starkova" (both published: "Semitology in the USSR for Forty Years", and first published in this book). the book: "Jews of Europe", "Jews in Russia and the USSR"); Review "about ... Read more