It seems to me that I read in van der Veer, R., & Valsiner, J. (1991).
<bigger>Understanding Vygotsky: A quest for synthesis<underline> that
</underline></bigger>Vygotsky spoke German. However, he preferred to
speak through his translator when he met German colleagues probably
because he was embarrassed of his Russian accent. Besides he probably
spoke Yiddish which is very similar to German.
Eugene Matusov
At 05:07 PM 8/28/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear xmca-ers,
>
>Does anyone know (and can give appropriate resources) whether
L.S.Vygotsky
>spoke (and read and/or wrote) German?
>A friend of mine, Dr. Robert J. Kleiner is writing a paper on the
>relationship between Vygotsky and K. Lewin and we know so far that in
Spring
>1933 Lewin spent about 2 - 3 weeks in Moscow and stayed at Vygotsky's
home,
>where they had lively discussions (accompanied by Luria and others). We
also
>know that there are numerous references of German texts supplied to
>Vygotsky's collected works (but mostly by the editors). So we think that
he
>indeed spoke German, but we are not sure.
>Is there a way to know?
>
>Ana
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