John Glad

John Glad

John Glad (born December 31, 1941) is an American academic who specializes in the literature and politics of exile, especially Russian literature; he has written about Nazi Germany, World War II and the Holocaust.

Biography

Glad received his MA from Indiana University in 1964 for his thesis "Constance Garnett and David Magarshack as translators of Crime and punishment.", and his Ph.D. degree from New York University in 1970 for this thesis "Russian Soviet science fiction and related critical activity",

Academic work

He is a retired professor of Russian studies at the University of Maryland, having also taught at Rutgers University, the University of Chicago, the University of Iowa. He is also the former Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, D.C., and a Guggenheim Grant recipient. He has written for The Jewish Press, Mankind Quarterly and The Occidental Quarterly. He was the translator from the Russian of 's The Black Book: The Ruthless Murder of Jews by German-Fascist Invaders Throughout the Temporarily-Occupied Regions of the Soviet Union and in the Death Camps of Poland During the War of 1941-1945., edited by Ilya Erenburg, and Vasily Grossman, and long supressed in the Soviet Union.

History of eugenics

Glad has also written about the eugenics movement, including how it is practiced in Israel and about eugenics beliefs among Zionists. He avers that before World War II, eugenics was popular among humanitarians of both the right and left, and bemoans the fact that, in the wake of the Holocaust, it has become a nearly taboo subject.[1] His first book, Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century, advances humanistic arguments in behalf of universal eugenics and has been translated into eight languages. His second book, Jewish Eugenics (2011), held in 366 libraries according to WorldCat traces the interactions between Jewish activists and eugenics, beginning with support for eugenics, which sharply reverse after the Holocaust. He argues that for most Jews the concept eugenics has continuing support, but is now discussed as part of the genomic revolution.

Publications

Books

• Glad, John. 2006. Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century; preface by Seymour Itzkoff. Schuylkill Haven, PA: Hermitage Publishers. In 1491 libraries according to WorldCat
  • translated into Russian as Budushchai︠a︡ ėvoli︠u︡t︠s︡ii︠a︡ cheloveka : evgenika XXI veka
  • Translated into Urdu as Mustaqbil kā insānī irtiqāʼ : ikkīsvīn̲ ṣadī men̲ ʻilm-i iṣlāḥ-i nauʻ-i insānī,
• Glad, John. 2011. Jewish Eugenics. Wooden Shore L.L.C., Washington, D.C.

Glad, John. 1999. Russia Abroad: Writers, History, Politics. Tenafly, NJ: Hermitage & Birchbark Press.

• • • review, A. Brintlinger, Russian Review 59, Part 3 (2000): 453
    • review, V. Terras, Slavic Review 62, Part 2 (2003): 423
    • review, L. Dienes, Slavic and East European Journal 44, Part 4 (2000): 672-674
    • review, W Coudenys, Russian History 27(2): (2000): 247-249
    • review, A Rogachevskii, The Slavonic and East European Review, Apr., 2001, vol. 79, no. 2, p. 357-360
• Glad, John, and Daniel Weissbort. 1992. Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
• Glad, John. 1993. Conversations in Exile: Russian Writers Abroad. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • • review, Slavonic and East European Review, Oct., 1994, vol. 72, no. 4, p. 723-724.
    • review, Modern Language Review, Jan., 1995, vol. 90, no. 1, p. 271
    • review, Slavic and East European Journal, Winter, 2000, vol. 44, no. 4, p. 672-675
• Glad, John. 1990. Literature in Exile. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • review, SubStance, 1992, vol. 21, no. 1, p. 137-142
  • review, Slavonic and East European Review, Jul., 1991, vol. 69, no. 3, p. 539
• Glad, John 1982 Extrapolations from dystopia : a critical study of Soviet science fiction Kingston Press, 1982
  • • review, Slavic Review, Spring, 1983, vol. 42, no. 1, p. 157-158
• Glad, John, and Daniel Weissbort. 1978. Russian Poetry, the Modern Period. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. In 530 libraries according to WorldCat.
  • • review, Slavic and East European Journal, Autumn, 1979, vol. 23, no. 3, p. 407-408
    • review, Modern Language Journal, Nov., 1979, vol. 63, no. 7, p. 388-389

Russian literature translations

• Generations of Winter, by Vasily Aksenov
• The Winter's Hero, by Vasily Aksenov New York : Random House, c1996 ISBN 9780679432746
• Kolyma Tales, by Varlam Shalamov
• Poems, by Nikolai Klyuev
• Graphite, by Varlam Shalamov

External links

• Online version of Future Human Evolution
• Online version of Jewish Eugenics