Metadata: S. E. Golovanivskii
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. 404
- Title:
- S. E. Golovanivskii
- Title (official language):
- Голованивский С.Е.
- Creator/accumulator:
- S. E. Golovanivskii
- Date(s):
- 1924/1990
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Russian
- Extent:
- 854 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Materials housed in the fond include a manuscript of S. E. Golovanivskii’s poem “Mel’nikov Street” [“Vulytsia Mel’nikova”] (1968), which touches on the theme of the Babi Yar victims’ consignment to oblivion; manuscripts of his translations (from Yiddish to Ukrainian) of poems by M. Ia. Pinchevskii, and reminiscences on the Jewish poet Itzik Fefer and a notice thereon by the latter’s widow R. G. Fefer; correspondence with Jewish literary figures (G. M. Gel’fandbein, G. I. Polianker, and others) dealing with personal and artistic issues; reminiscences on meetings with Isaac Babel’ and Il’ia Ehrenburg; correspondence with Il’ia Ehrenburg containing indications of anti-Semitic tendencies in society (in particular, a letter from 1947 mentions anti-Semitism-related difficulties experienced by the artist Z. Sh. Tolkachev).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Ukrainian writer Savva Evseevich Golovanivskii (1910-89) was born in the village of Elisavetgradka (now a town in the Oleksandrivka/Aleksandrovka district, Kirovohrad/Kirovograd region). Upon graduating high school, he studied at the Odessa and Khar’kov Agricultural Institutes. His work was first published in 1926; his first collection of poetry By Iron Horses [Kin’mi zaliznymy] came out in 1927. He served in the Second World War as a war correspondent. He is the author of over thirty collections of poetry, as well as two novels, several plays, and a memoir titled Memorial [Memoryal] (1988). He was active in the field of literary translation. He died in Kiev.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Babel’, I. E.
- Ehrenburg, Ilya
- Fefer, Itzik
- Fefer, R. G.
- Gel’fandbein, G. M.
- Golovanivskii, S. E.
- Pinchevskii, M. Ia.
- Polianker, Hershl
- Tolkachev, Z. Sh.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes three inventories systematised by document type (literary genre; letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and addressee), with each inventory corresponding to a particular set of documents submitted serially to the archive by the collection creator or his relatives.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary