person
Lipskerov
also: Липскеров, Abram Lipskerov
A Moscow journalist/editor connected with the daily Novosti Dnya; Chekhov once gave him a minor piece under a pseudonym, which the paper later printed under Chekhov's full surname without his consent.
Reading notes
- My Domostroy §3 Липскерову
Abram Lipskerov, a real Moscow journalist and editor connected with \textit{Novosti Dnya}; naming him by surname situates the sketch's fictional publisher-visits inside Chekhov's actual working milieu of the Moscow satirical press.
- To N. A. Leikin, 25 December 1883. Moscow. §10 Lipskerov
Abram Lipskerov, editor connected with Novosti Dnya, to whom Chekhov had once given a minor piece under a pseudonym -- which the paper then printed under his full name.
- To N. A. Leikin, 11 August 1884. Voskresensk. §6 the "Yid" Lipskerov
Chekhov here uses "еврюга" ("yid," a period Russian ethnic slur for a Jew, formed with a pejorative augmentative suffix) about Abram Lipskerov, who edited a rival Moscow satirical paper. It is translated directly rather than softened, per this edition's fidelity policy: Chekhov's early letters and journalism contain casual antisemitic language typical of the milieu, and this letter is presented as historical evidence of that fact, without euphemism and without endorsement.
- To N. A. Leikin, 15 September 1884. Moscow. §6 the "Yid"
Chekhov here uses "еврюга" ("yid," a period Russian ethnic slur for a Jew, formed with a pejorative augmentative suffix) for Abram Lipskerov, editor of a rival Moscow paper for whom Chekhov did occasional paid work. Translated directly rather than softened, per this edition's fidelity policy: Chekhov's early letters contain casual antisemitic language typical of the milieu, presented here as historical evidence of that fact, without euphemism and without endorsement.
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 22–23 February 1887. Moscow. §14 Lipskerov has been sentenced to six months' arrest.
Abram Lipskerov, editor-publisher of the Moscow daily Novosti dnya, was convicted after a choir-conductor sued him over a feuilleton accusing the conductor of not paying his singers; despite witnesses corroborating the article, Lipskerov was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
- To A. Ya. Lipskerov, 1 January 1888. Moscow. §3 Abram Yakovlevich
Abram Yakovlevich Lipskerov, editor-publisher of the Moscow daily "Novosti dnya" ("News of the Day"), in which Chekhov had himself published fiction; the letter's addressee.