Julius Zinovyevich Telesin (, Julius Zinov'evič Telesin; born April 1, 1933, in Moscow) is a Russian-Israeli mathematician, human rights activist, chess player, poet, and translator. He was a notable participant in the Soviet samizdat culture of the 1960s. He emigrated to Israel where he lived since 1970.Leonard Schroeter: The Last Exodus. 1979 (p. 115) He taught mathematics at the University of Beersheba.litmir.org (in Russian)
Telesin was born on April 1, 1933, in Moscow. He is the son of Jewish Yiddish-language poet Zyama Telesin (Зяма Телесин / Zinovy Lvovich Telesin; 1907, Kalinkovichi, Minsk province – 1996, Jerusalem).Телесин Зяма / Telessin Sjama (, Telesin Zjama); see also: Benjamin Pinkus, 1948–1967 His mother was the poet Rakhil (Rachel) Boymvol.Rina Lapidus: Jewish Women Writers in the Soviet Union. 2012, p. 106.
1001 anekdot Telesin compiled a collection of 1001 Soviet political jokesRussian: 1001 избранный советский политический анекдот (1001 izbrannyj sovetskij političeskij anekdot) published in 1986 in Tenafly, New Jersey (Hermitage Press). Bruce Friend Adams,University of Hawaii library: Bruce Friend Adams, 1946–2008 who cites it in his study of Soviet and Russian history through jokes, praised it as the most clever and funny presentation of such material:
The book includes jokes involving Stalin, Rabinovich,A stereotypical Jewish name in Russian jokes; see Russian jokes (Rabinovich). Khrushchev, Chapayev, Petka,See also Pyotr Isaev (()ru). Trotsky, Kosygin, Mao, Brezhnev, Gierek, Lenin, Dzerzhinsky, Radio Yerevan, Carter, Vovochka, Molotov, Furtseva, Chernenko and many others.
Example (Joke No. 43):
Why did Lenin wear shoes, and Stalin boots? – Because under Lenin, the filth in Russia only reached the ankles.
Selected publications
1001 izbrannyj sovetskij političeskij anekdot. Tenafly, NJ: Hermitage Press, 1986. Samizdat in Brief: An Introductory Article. 1973. Foreword to Peter Reddaway, Uncensored Russia: Protest and Dissent in the Soviet Union; the Unofficial Moscow Journal, a Chronicle of Current Events. New York: American Heritage Press, 1972. Detstvo v tyurʹme: memuary Petra Yakira (Childhood in Prison: Recollections of Pyotr Yakir). London: Macmillan, 1972. Teoriya kombinatsiy (Theory of Combinations). Jerusalem: Ivan Marton, 1992. Shutkovanie nad bezdnoy (Joking over the Abyss). Jerusalem: J. Telesin, 2009. Stishki o suverennoi demokratii (Poems about Sovereign Democracy). Jerusalem: J. Telesin, 2008.
See also
Chastushka Chronicle of Current Events (Khroniki tekushchikh sobytii) Russian jokes / political jokes
References
Further reading
* «НЛО» 2004, №68 ("NLO" 2004 Nr. 68): Писатели-диссиденты: Биобиблиографические статьи (Окончание) // NLO 2004, No. 68: "Writers-Dissidents: Bio-bibliographic Articles" ТЕЛЕСИН ЮЛИУС ЗИНОВЬЕВИЧ (in Russian) Boris Mozorov (ed.): Documents on Soviet Jewish Emigration. (Online excerpt) Bruce Friend Adams: Tiny Revolutions in Russia: Twentieth-century Soviet and Russian History in Anecdotes. Routledge Curzon, 2005 (Online excerpt) Leonard Schroeter: The Last Exodus. 1979 (Online excerpt) Maya Ulanovskaya: The Family Story. 2016 (Online excerpt) Kerstin Armborst: Ablösung von der Sowjetunion: Die Emigrationsbewegung der Juden und Deutschen vor 1987. 2001 (Online excerpt) Foreword to: Uncensored Russia: Protest and Dissent in the Soviet Union. Edited, translated and commented by Peter Reddaway. New York: American Heritage Press, 1972 (Slavic Review, Cambridge)
External links 1001 isbranny sowetski polititscheski anekdot (1), (2), in Google transliteration (in Russian) Russian Jew Allowed to Leave Ussr; Soviet Jewish Woman Seeks Help to Emigrate Юлиус Телесин (in Russian) Телесин Ю. З. (in Russian) A Number of Soviet Jews, Including Yosif Kazakov, Have Been Granted Exit Visas Boymvol, Rokhl Миша Мельниченко: Советский анекдот (Указатель сюжетов) (in Russian)