Metadata: Jokūbas Josadė
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Lithuanian Archives of Literature and Art
- Holding institution (official language):
- Lietuvos literatūros ir meno archyvas
- Postal address:
- O. Milašiaus g. 19, 10102 Vilnius
- Phone number:
- +370 5 265 2624
- Web address:
- https://archivesofculture.com/en
- Email:
- llma@archyvai.lt
- Reference number:
- 690
- Title:
- Jokūbas Josadė
- Title (official language):
- Jokūbas Josadė
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jokūbas Josadė
- Date(s):
- 1941/2004
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Hebrew
- Lithuanian
- Polish
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 100 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection of Jokūbas Josadė includes records of his literary legacy, such as manuscripts (many in Yiddish), stories, short stories, diaries, dramatic plays, a screenplay, reviews, articles, texts of speeches, and essays. A lot of the literary legacy is in Yiddish, especially most of the stories, articles, notes and diaries. The collection also contains letters, postcards, photographs, biographical documents, documents of family members, and documents collected by Josadė, such as programmes of Jewish theatres in Lithuania, Poland, Moldova and Russia.
Most of his letters are addressed to his wife Šeinė Sideraitė, daughter Asia, son Josifas, his sister Bat-Sheva Kovarski and his granddaughter Salomėja. They are in Yiddish and Lithuanian. Some letters were addressed to YIVO, D Katz and Solomon Teitelboim. In addition to letters from family members, he also received letters in Yiddish, Russian and Lithuanian from Aber, Albam, Bregstein, Bruker, Blumenfeld, Gubenko, Kagan, Kahan, Levi, Levinas, Karapysh, Platner, Polanski, Rabinas, Rosenthal, Roth, Rozengauzas, Vytautas Sirijos Gira, Tornau, Shraibmanas and others.
The collection also contains some documents about Josadė, mostly articles and reviews of his literary works in Lithuanian, Russian, Yiddish, English and French. Among his personal documents, there is an autographed family tree of Josadė and his wife Sideraitė made by the writer himself.
Some material belonged to Šeinė Sideraitė, such as notes, personal letters, articles about her and Josadė, and personal documents in Yiddish, Russian and Lithuanian.
- Archival history:
- The documents were received on 14 June 2011 from J Josadė's wife, Šeinė Sideraitė. The collection was supplemented in 2003-2005 and may still be supplemented in the future.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jokūbas Josadė was a famous Jewish-Lithuanian writer. His real birth date is not known, but officially it is claimed he was born on 15 August 1911 in Kalvarija in Marijampolė County. The writer is also known by the name of Jankelis, Jakovas and Jokūbas. After graduating from Kalvarija secondary school in 1926, Josadė continued his studies at the Virbalis Jewish Gymnasium, studying in Hebrew. Two years later, he had to drop out owing to his anti-Zionist attitudes. In 1929 he began studying, in Yiddish, at the Jewish Gymnasium in Ukmergė. From 1931 to 1933 Josadė was drafted to the army and afterwards he moved to Kaunas. After dropping out of Kaunas University, he debuted as a writer in 1935 in “Folksblat”, a Jewish education fellowship newspaper. In 1935 he was also actively involved in a Jewish left-wing writers’ organisation. Between 1937 and 1938, Josadė worked in a Jewish theatre and also as a secretary for "Iteg". In 1939 he worked for the “Folksblat” newspaper and from 1940 to 1941 for the Yiddish language Soviet newspaper “Der Emes”. In 1940 Josadė joined the Lithuanian SSR Writers Union, as a member of the Jewish writers association. In 1941 he was employed by the Lithuanian SSR state publishing house as an editor of Jewish literature. When the Nazis occupied Lithuania in 1941, he moved to Almaty (Kazakhstan), but was drafted into the Red Army in 1942. From 1948 to 1959 he worked for the literary magazine “Pergale” in Soviet Lithuania. As his health declined, he devoted himself to writing in Yiddish and Lithuanian. J Josadė died in Vilnius on 09 November 1995 and was buried there.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Blumenfeld
- Kahan
- Levi
- Rosenthal
- Roth
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged chronologically.
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to some documents is limited and for some of the personal documents permission of the writer’s daughter is required.
- Finding aids:
- A list of files is available at the LLMA.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Monika Žulytė
