In order to identify the names of important Russian Jewish writers, you may use solid scholarly anthologies such as An anthology of Jewish-Russian literature : two centuries of dual identity in prose and poetry (2 vols., 2007); or examine the entry "Russian literature" in The Yivo encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (2 vols., 2008). You may also refer to Encyclopaedia Judaica (16 vols., 1971-72) and The encyclopedia of Russian Jewry (North Vale, NJ, 1998), which is the English version of the 7-volume Russian original Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow, 1994-2011).
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