Lev Shestov

Abstract

Lev Shestov (the pen-name of Yehuda Leib Shvartsman) is a Russian-Jewish philosopher of the Silver Age period of Russian culture, whose thought continues to fascinate and inspire sensitive, although not necessarily numerous, readers inside and outside Russia. He was born in Kiev on 31 January (12 February) 1866 and died in Paris on 20 November 1938, having fled Soviet Russia in January 1920.