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Omry Ronen

Omry Ronen was an American Slavist known for his work on the Silver Age of Russian poetry, especially the poetry of Osip Mandelstam.

1937 to 2012Research on Osip Mandelstam's poetryStudy of Russian Silver Age poetryThe column "From the Town of Ann"

Born: 12 July 1937, Odesa
Died: 1 November 2012, Ann Arbor
Occupation: slavist, university teacher
Education: Eötvös Loránd University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harvard University

Omry Ronen was born in 1937 in Odesa

Omry Ronen was born Imre Szörényi in Odesa in 1937, into a Hungarian Jewish family. His father, Emerich Szörényi, was a biochemist who studied muscle physiology. The family lived in the Soviet Union until 1953, when they returned to Hungary.

Ronen began his studies at Budapest University. He took part in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and fled to Israel after it was put down. He earned a B.A. in linguistics and English literature at the Hebrew University and a PhD in Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard.

From 1972 to 1985 he was a professor at the Hebrew University. In 1985 he became a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he stayed until his death in 2012.

His research covered the Silver Age of Russian poetry, Pushkin's poetics, the Oberiu poets and Vladimir Nabokov. He also wrote 3 books of essays based on his column "From the Town of Ann" in the journal Zvezda.