George Shevelov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

George Shevelov

Ukrainian writer

Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1908

Place of Birth: Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 12-Apr-2002

Profession: literary critic, linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

George Yurii Shevelov (name at birth Yiddish: George Yurii Schneider?, Ukrainian: ???? ????????????? ???????) also known by his numerous literary pseudonyms Yurii Sherekh, Hryhory Shevchuk, Šerech, Sherekh, Sher; ??.
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(December 17, 1908 – April 12, 2002) was a Ukrainian-American professor, linguist, philologist, essayist, literary historian, and literary critic of Jewish heritage.
A longtime professor of Slavic philology at Columbia University, he challenged the prevailing notion of a unified East Slavic language from which Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian later developed, instead proposing that these languages emerged independently from one another.