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'''Iosif Davidovich Amusin''' (Ио́сиф Дави́дович Аму́син; [[French]]: ''Joseph Amoussine'', November 29, [[1910 AD|1910]], [[Vitebsk]] – June 12, [[1984 AD|1984]], Leningrad) was a [[Soviet]] [[historian]], [[oriental studies|orientalist]], [[hebraist]] and [[papyrology]]st, was specialist in the history of the [[Ancient Near East]] and [[Qumran]] studies. 

Amusin was twice (in 1928 and 1938) arrested and sentenced for [[Zionist]] connections and "[[anti-Sovietism|anti-Soviet]]" activity (acquitted posthumously in 1989). Graduated from the Historical Faculty of [[St. Petersburg University|Leningrad University]] (1935–1941). Served as a medical officer during the [[Second World War]].

After 1945, Amusin taught [[ancient history]] at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute and the Leningrad University until the [[anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic]] campaign against the so called "[[Rootless cosmopolitan|cosmopolitanism]]," when he lost his job and, after a long period of unemployment, began lecturing at the [[Ulianovsk]] Pedagogical Institute (1950–1954).

Upon returning in Leningrad in 1954, Amusin became a research fellow at the [[Institute of Archaeology]] and the [[Institute of Oriental Studies]] of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences|Soviet Academy of Sciences]] in Leningrad. From the late 1950s, he published about 100 works on the [[Qumran]] and [[Dead Sea Scrolls]].

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Nick: Protected "Iosif Amusin" [edit=autoconfirmed:move=autoconfirmed]

Nick: New page: '''Iosif Davidovich Amusin''' (Ио́сиф Дави́дович Аму́син; French: ''Joseph Amoussine'', November 29, 1910, Vitebsk – June 12, 1984,...