Lazar Fleishman

Lazar Fleishman is a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University, specializing in 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature, poetics, and émigré cultural studies. He has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Charles University in Prague.

• Education: Ph.D. (1968, Tartu & Latvian State University), Russian and Slavic Philology (1966, with honors), Music (1961, Riga Academy)

His research spans Russian modernism, literary theory, and the intersection of philosophy and literature, with a focus on Pushkin, Pasternak, and émigré cultural memory. His editorial work includes the Slavica Hierosolymitana series (1977-1984) and Stanford Slavic Studies (since 1987).

Recent publications analyze Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago in Cold War contexts, Pushkin’s legacy in modernist poetics, and émigré literary reception. His work synthesizes historical analysis with theoretical frameworks.

He teaches at Stanford’s Building 240, Room 106, with office hours Tuesdays 10:30-11:30 am or by appointment. Contact: lazar@stanford.edu.