ZILBERMAN, David B. (David Beniaminovič Zil’berman). Odessa (now Ukraine) 25.5.1938 — Boston 25.6.1977. Russian (Ukrainian?) Philosopher and Sociologist in the U.S.A. Son of Beniamin Zilberman, an engineer-economist, and Riva Timaner, a physician. Studied engineering and meteorology in Odessa, degree 1962. In 1962-66 meteorogist of Ašhabad Airport in Turkmenistan. In 1962 befriended with —> B. L. Smirnov and started the study of Indology (logic, yoga and ritual). Back in Odessa 1966 worked both at University of Odessa (philosophy) and at Meteorological Institute. From 1968 PG studies of Sociology at Moscow. Also collaborated with Pjatigorskij. Kand. 1972. Emigrated with his family in 1973 and became Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Hunter College in New York. From 1974 Post-doctoral Fellow with the Committee on South Asian Studies, University of Chicago and from 1976 taught at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. Died in a car-bicycle collision. Married with Elena Mičnik (then Michnik-Zilberman), two daughters.

Publications: In Russian many translations from Sanskrit, articles on Indian philosophy and sociology.

– The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought. 268 p. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 102. Dordrecht 1988, Russian translation. Moscow 1998.

– Articles and reviews; Selected Essays. 44+278 p. Ed. by G. L. Pandit. 2023.

Sources: *I.H. Anelis, Studies in Soviet Thought 20, 1979, 165-175; Wikipedia with photo and further references; not in Miliband 1995.