Pasternak

[pas-ter-nak, puh-styir-nahk]

noun

1. Boris Leonidovich 1890–1960, Russian poet, novelist, and translator: declined 1958 Nobel Prize.

Pasternak

/ ˈpæstəˌnæk, pəstɪrˈnak /

noun

1. Boris Leonidovich (baˈris lɪaˈnidəvitʃ). 1890–1960, Russian lyric poet, novelist, and translator, noted particularly for his novel of the Russian Revolution, Dr. Zhivago (1957). He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1958, but was forced to decline it

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“If not the Americans, then the Europeans will definitely support us,” said Oleksiy Pasternak, a 38-year-old engineering officer serving in northeastern Ukraine.

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A short walk from the synagogue lies the Brooklyn Museum, whose Jewish director, Anne Pasternak, found her home smeared with red paint and graffiti last year.

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“We’re trying to reflect our deep roots as a center for social good in art and a place for people of all backgrounds to come together,” said Anne Pasternak, the museum’s director since 2015.

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“We welcome the debate,” Anne Pasternak, the museum’s director, said in an interview.

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“You have to be an octopus, and the new generation of museum directors will have to be entrepreneurs,” said Anne Pasternak, the director of the Brooklyn Museum.

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