109* Eupatoria Pages of the Biography of the American Writer Ayn Rand (Alisa Rosenbaum, 1905–1982) * Ludmila Nikiforova and Mikhail Kizilov Introduction: Ayn Rand and the Crimea "Ayn Rand" is the pen name of Alisa 1 Rosenbaum (1905–1982), a prolifc novelist, playwright, and philosopher who developed a new philosophical system which she called "objectivism". The Crimean, or to be more precise Eupatorian, pages of the biography of this American writer and philosopher of Russian-Jewish origin, became known to the authors of this article fairly recently. Ayn Rand was generally known for her unwillingness to disclose facts about her origin: She virtually never mentioned her Jewish origin 2 * "The authors give special thanks to Mr. Anatolii Haesh for his kind assistance as well as to the employees of the Eupatoria Museum of Local Lore and to the local historians K. S. Batozskii, I. M. Slepkan, A. Maximenko, and I. Smidovich. 1 Most studies on Ayn Rand that appeared in the West prefer spelling "Alissa" or "Alice"; we would use the form "Alisa" (English "s" is to pronounced here as Russian "c", not as "з"; cf. Russian Алиса). 2 Nathaniel Branden, Judgement Day: My Years with Ayn Rand (Boston: Houghton Miffin, 1989), 55. For more information about Ayn Rand's attitude to the Jews and Judaism, her own Jewish origin, and also about the role her Jewish colleagues played in her life, see: Jeff Walker, The Ayn Rand Cult (Illinois: Open Court, 1999), 277–287. MORESHET ISRAEL, Vol. 16, November 2018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.26351/MI/16/9 ISSN: 2521-4810 (print)