The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

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Date
OA.140

Reed, Gary Frank, ‘Berlin and the Division of Liberty’, Political Theory 8 (1980), 365–80

Works on IB
OA.141

Véliz, Claudio, The Centralist Tradition of Latin America (Princeton, 1980: Princeton University Press), Introduction, at 12–13

T.167

Personal Impressions 1st edition

Chinese

German

Persönliche Eindrücke, trans. Werner Schmitz (Berlin 2001: Berlin Verlag)

Hebrew

(Tel Aviv, 1983: Am Oved) (in part)

Italian

(in part) Impressioni personali, trans. Gilberto Forti (Milan, 1989:Adelphi)

Japanese

(in part) ‘Winston Churchill in 1940’, ‘President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’, 'Chaim Weizmann’, ‘L. B. Namier’, ‘J.L. Austin and the Early Beginnings of Oxford Philosophy’, ‘Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956’ [short version], in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 2 (1983)

Lithuanian

Amzius 1979

Portuguese

(Brasilia, 1981: Editora de Universidade de Brasilia)

Spanish

Impresiones personales, trans. Juan José Utrilla and Audón Coria Méndez (Mexico, 1984: Fondo de Cultura Economica) 2nd edition

Chinese

(Nanjing, 2013: Yilin Press: simplified script)

German

(Frankfurt, 1988: Athenaum)

Translations
T.169

‘Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956’ Short Version

German

‘ Stalin’s Nachtasyl: Gespräche mit Boris Pasternak und Anna Achmatowa ’, in Trans Atlantik (6 June 1981), 56–68

Japanese

‘Russiano shijn tachi tono kaiwa’, trans. Hidekazu Kawai, Selected Works of Berlin, vol. 2 (Tokyo, 1983: Iwanami Shoten)

Polish

‘Spotkania z rosyjskimi pisarzami (1945–1956)’, trans. Jacek Brzezinski, Zeszyty Literackie 6 (1984), 59–102 [Full Version]

Dutch

‘Gesprekken met Anna Achmatova en Boris Pasternak’, trans. Ochid Hogen Esch, Vrij Nederland, 7 February 1981, 3–33

French

(in part)

Russian

Whole essay:

  • (1) ‘Vstrechi s russkimi pisatelyami 1945 i 1956’, trans. D. Segal, E. Tolstaya-Segal and O. Ronen, with the help of the author, in L. Fleishman, O. Ronen and D. Segal (eds), Slavica Hierosolymitana: Slavic Studies of the Hebrew University, vol. 5–6 (Jerusalem, 1981: Magnes Press, Hebrew University), 593–641
  • repr. in Istoriya svobody: Rossiya (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie)
  • excerpts repr. in Requiem, one of 5 vols of Akhmatova’s works (Moscow, 1989), 197–224
  • (2) ‘Vstrechi s russkimi pisatelyami v 1945 i 1956 godakh’, trans. N. I. Tolstoy, Zvezda, 1990 no. 2 (February), 129–57

Part of essay (on the first meeting with Pasternak):

  • trans. ?, Dos’e [special supplement to Literaturnaya gazeta] 2 (1992), 13

Spanish

(in part) ‘Recordando a Pasternak’, in Revista de Occidente (20 January 1983), 5–24

Translations
T.170

‘Alleged Relativism in Eighteenth-Century European Thought’

Italian

In Storia, Antropologia e Scienze del Linguaggio IV (Rome, 1989: Bulzoni), 2–3

Japanese

‘18 seiki europe sisou ni okeru iwayuru soutaisyugi’, trans. Haruo Tanaka, in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 4 [translation of The Crooked Timber of Humanity by K. Fukuda, H. Kawai, H. Tanaka and R. Matsumoto] (1992)

Polish

Translations
T.171(a)

‘A Tribute to my Friend’

Hebrew

  • Yedioth Achronot , 4 July 1980
  • also in Jacob Talmon, Hidat HaHove ve Ormat Hahistoria [The Riddle of the Present and the Cunning of History], ed. David Ohana, afterwords by Yehoshua Arieli and Isaiah Berlin (Jerusalem, 2000: Bialik Institute), 411–15
Translations
T.172

‘The Three Strands of My Life’

Danish

‘De tre trade i mit liv’, in Den ideale straeben og andre essays, trans. Anders Smith (Copenhagen, 2005: Gyldendal)

Russian

Translations
B.69

A Month in the Country

  • Translation of Turgenev’s play; National Theatre Production (opened 19/2/81)
  • Recording date: 26/6/81
  • First transmission: not broadcast
  • Duration: c.2 hours 15 minutes?
  • Recording: BLSA Tape T4244W&R
  • Publication: Translation, with Introduction, of Ivan Turgenev, A Month in the Country (London, 1981: Hogarth Press; New York, 1982: Viking; Harmondsworth, 1983: Penguin) (Bib.175)
Broadcasts
B.70

Levin Interview

  • First transmission: 7.40 pm 23/5/81 BBC2 Television
  • Duration: 30 minutes
  • Repeat(s): 4.50 pm 2/12/82 BBC2
  • Series: The Levin Interviews
  • Presenter: Bernard Levin
  • Director: Christopher Lewis
  • Producer: John Shearer
  • Transcript: BBC Written Archives
  • Recording: BBC film library (NBS F105R); BLSA Tape V2660; soundtrack BLSA Tape 6408W
Broadcasts
B.71

Conversations with Boris Pasternak

  • Part of Maurice Bowra Memorial Lecture from Personal Impressions
  • Recording date: [to come]
  • First transmission: 10.15 pm 28/6/81 BBC Radio 4
  • Duration: 45 minutes
  • Producer: Leonie Cohn/Helen Fry (LC in Radio Times, HF on contract)
  • Transcript: BBC Written Archives
  • Recording: BBC Sound Archives MT41150; BLSA Tape T4197W (off-air)
  • Publication: part of ‘Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956’, in Personal Impressions (London, 1980: Hogarth Press; New York, 1981: Viking; Oxford, 1982: Oxford University Press; New York, 1982: Penguin)
Broadcasts
B.72

Conversations with Anna Akhmatova

  • Part of Maurice Bowra Memorial Lecture from Personal Impressions
  • Recording date: 4/8/81
  • First transmission: 8.20 pm 27/8/81 BBC Radio 4
  • Duration: 20 minutes
  • Producer: Leonie Cohn
  • Transcript: BBC Written Archives
  • Recording: BBC Sound Archives MT41150; BLSA Tape 5916W (off-air)
  • Publication: part of ‘Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956’, in Personal Impressions (London, 1980: Hogarth Press; New York, 1981: Viking; Oxford, 1982: Oxford University Press; New York, 1982: Penguin)
Broadcasts
Bib.173(a)

For Teddy Kollek ([Jerusalem, 1981]: The Jerusalem Foundation), 7 pp.

Bibliography
Bib.174

Introduction and unattributed contributions to H. G. Nicholas (ed.), Washington Despatches 1941–45: Weekly Political Reports from the British Embassy (London, 1981: Weidenfeld and Nicolson; Chicago, 1981: Chicago University Press), vii–xiv

Bibliography
Bib.175

Translation, with Introduction, of Ivan Turgenev, A Month in the Country (London, 1981: Hogarth Press; New York, 1982: Viking; Harmondsworth, 1983: Penguin)

  • See also the details of the recording of the National Theatre's production of the play in June 1981, B.69
Bibliography
Bib.176

Reply to Hans Aarsleff, ‘Vico and Berlin’, London Review of Books, 5–18 November 1981, 7–8; letter, 3–16 June 1982, 5

  • view document below for PDF
Bibliography
Bib.177

‘Russian Thought and the Slavophile Controversy’, review of Andrzej Walicki, A History of Russian Thought (From the Enlightenment to Marxism) and The Slavophile Controversy, Slavonic and East European Review 59 (1981), 572–86

  • trans. Russian
Bibliography
Bib.177(a)

Contribution to ‘Books of the Year: A Personal Choice’, Observer, 6 December 1981, 25

Bibliography
Bib.177(b)

‘Plea for a Library’ (letter), Jewish Chronicle, 25 December 1981, 16

Bibliography
Bib.177(c)

Contributions to Sandra Martin and Roger Hall (eds), Where Were You? Memorable Events of the Twentieth Century (Toronto etc., 1981: Methuen)

  • 119–20 (Pearl Harbor)
  • 183–4 (Cuban Missile Crisis)
  • 206–7 (Assassination of John F. Kennedy)
  • 220 (Russian Revolution)
  • 227–8 (Six-Day War); repr. as ‘Where Was I?’ in Personal Impressions (3rd ed., 2014)
  • excerpts from first, second, third and last contributions trans. Spanish
Bibliography
Bib.177(d)

‘How Russian and English Lines Can Get Crossed’ (letter), Guardian, 19 February 1981, 12

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