Metadata: National Union of Theater Workers of Ukraine
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Archive and Museum of Literature and Art of Ukraine
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний архів-музей літератури і мистецтва України
- Postal address:
- 01001, м. Київ-01, вул. Володимирська, 22-a
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 278-44-81
- Web address:
- csam.archives.gov.ua
- Email:
- cdamlm@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 616
- Title:
- National Union of Theater Workers of Ukraine
- Title (official language):
- Национальный союз театральных деятелей Украины
- Creator/accumulator:
- National Union of Theater Workers of Ukraine
- Date(s):
- 1869/2001
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 5,357 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Certain of the fond’s documents pertain to the activities of Jewish actors, directors, theatre specialists, and arts collectives, and also reflect Jewish themes in theatre repertoires. These include minutes of an evening reception at which the Sholom Aleichem State Yiddish Theater of the Ukrainian SSR hosted the theatre-going public of Kiev (1947), and a stenogram of a speech by the theatre’s artistic director M. I. Gol’dblat briefly covering its history; a stenogram of a session held by the Ukrainian Theater Society to discuss the Pravda article “On a Certain Unpatriotic Group of Theater Critics” (1949), which accused several theatre figures (A. M. Borshchagovskii, G. N. Boiadzhiev, A. A. Gozenpud, and others) of “rootless cosmopolitanism”; a stenographic report of the O. Kobylianskaia Chernovtsy State Ukrainian Musical-Drama Theater’s performance of G. D. Plotkin’s play Lost Horizon, which tendentiously censures Soviet Jews emigrating to Israel (1981); files on Jewish-themed tour performances in Kiev organised by the Druzhba Theater: A. Z. Stavitskii’s play No. 40 Sholom Aleichem Street (Moscow’s K. S. Stanislavskii Drama Theater; dir. G. A. Tovstonogov); A. I. Khait’s play Tum-balalaika (dir. Iu. G. Sherling); and folk scenes titled Lomir ale in eynem (script by Iu. G. Sherling; the Jewish Chamber Music Theater; dir. A. S. Levenbuk); information on the Jewish Chamber Music Theater: a list of actors, performance programs containing brief explanations of Yiddish songs, an invitation to an artistic evening with performers of this theatre at the Republic Actors’ House; snapshots of Jewish-themed theatrical productions: L. S. Pervomaiskii’s play The Town of Ladeniu (1932) and Tevye the Dairyman, based on stories about the eponymous character by Sholom Aleichem (1960); a photo of the Jewish drama actress L. N. Bugova; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was established in Kiev in February 1945 by decree (23 May 1944) of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine and the Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars as the Ukrainian Theater Society, a public arts organisation uniting theatre workers for the purpose of providing artistic and methodological as well as material support to the republic’s theatre collectives, raising the standards of theatre training and criticism, etc. All regional centres of the Ukrainian SSR had local branches of the Ukrainian Theater Society. In 1979, the society’s Druzhba [Friendship] Theater was established (subsequently called the Druzhba State Theater); this engaged in artistic networking with theatre collectives beyond Ukraine and organised brief tours thereof in Kiev. (It was liquidated in 2001.) In 1987, the Ukrainian Theater Society was renamed the Council of Theater Workers of Ukraine; and in 1998, the National Union of Theater Workers of Ukraine.
- Access points: locations:
- Kiev
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes nine inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle (op. 1, 2, 4, and 8; op. 3 and 5 are supplementary thereto) and alphabetically (op. 6, 7, and 9).
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary