Mark Yoffe

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Full Name	Mark Yoffe
Occupation	Anthropologist
Date Of Birth	Mar 20, 1958(1958-03-20)
Age	66
Birthplace	Riga
Country	Latvia
Horoscope	Pisces

Mark Yoffe Biography

Mark Yoffe is one of the most popular and richest Anthropologist who was born on March 20, 1958 in Riga, Latvia. A musician, and historian Elkhonon Yoffe and Russian literature teacher Lidia Yoffe (nee Artiushina), Mark Yoffe was born in Riga, Latvia, then part of the Soviet Union. His family was fluent in Russian at home, and Yoffe went to Russian classes in Riga. The year 1975 was the time he was admitted to Latvian State University in the department of Russian Philology, where he was an undergraduate student until 1977. In a bid to pass an examination on the history of Latvia’s Communist Party during his third semester of studies, Mark Yoffe took extended leave of absence. In this time the student received drawing and design instruction through Yurii Petropavlovsky, presently a controversial Latvian political activist. The year 1977 was the first time Mark Yoffe was admitted into the Riga psychiatric center hoping to be granted the right to be exempted for Soviet the military. After 21 days in the hospital, he was granted the requested exemption and was able to open the doors to emigration into in the United States.

He also earned an master in Library Science degree from the University of Michigan School of Information in 1989.

Yoffe defended his dissertation in August 1991 and left Ann Arbor with his family for Washington DC in December 1991.

In Washington DC, Yoffe first worked as a cataloging consultant for the European Division of the Library of Congress in March 1992. In 1993, he undertook a trip to Moscow sponsored by the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) to collect materials—mostly underground rock recordings, zines, and ephemera—for what later became Yoffe’s International Counterculture Archive. The first part of the archive collected during that trip to Moscow is, as of 2016, in custody of the Library of Congress’s European Division.

The spring of 1983 saw Yoffe completed his studies at Queens College, City University of New York. In Queens College, he was a student of Russian literary and cultural studies with professors Albert Todd, Thomas Bird and, more importantly Vera Sandomirsky-Dunham. She “discovered” his abilities as an undergraduate pupil in Russian literature and suggested him to pursue graduate studies at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan.

Mark Yoffe Net Worth

Mark Yoffe is one of the richest Anthropologist from Latvia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark Yoffe 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In his teens, Mark Yoffe associated with a group of Russian-speaking hippies bohemians, artists, and students in Riga. Together with his high-school acquaintance Valery Petropavlovsky he launched the first well-known Soviet rock magazine, Bez Zhmogas, in 1977. They also co-authored the underground literary and art Almanac Delo #1, and several underground rock opera librettos that were satirical novel and short stories. Along with Valery Petropavlovsky he founded the garage avant-garde band Put”tolstykh” (“The Way of Fat Ones”) that practiced at-home studio recording of “concrete” and conceptual music and parodic audio plays.

On the 1st of April 1978, along with his family and the fox-terrier Lada the fox-terrier, he left Latvia to the USA. After an obligatory stay of couple of months at Austrian as well as Italian refugee camps the family were in New York City on June 6th in 1978.

At the University of Michigan, Yoffe was warmly welcomed by the Chair of the Department Benjamin Stolz, Professors Assya Humesky, Deming Brown, Horace Dewey. But he developed a special relationship and long lasting friendship with Gogol, 18th century, and skaz specialist Irwin R. Titunik, who became one of the greatest influences upon his academic development. Initially, Mark Yoffe was planning to write his doctoral dissertation on “Holy fool stylistics” found in the 17th century religious polemist’s Archpriest Avvakum writings. In 1989, though, Yoffe suddenly changed his plans and embarked on working on his groundbreaking dissertation dedicated to Soviet youth counterculture, ethnography of Soviet hippies and traditions and stylistics on which Soviet rock music was based. What prompted him to change his scholarly focus was his acquaintance with works of Soviet rock of the time of Perestroika, particularly an album titled Red Wave published in the West by Joanna Stingray in 1986, album of music by Moscow band Zvuki Mu produced in UK and USA by Brian Eno in 1989 and the album Radio Silence by Leningrad musician Boris Grebenshchikov and his band, Aquarium, produced in the UK and USA by David A. Stewart.

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