Metadata: I. M. Dziuba
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. 1242
- Title:
- I. M. Dziuba
- Title (official language):
- Дзюба И.М.
- Creator/accumulator:
- I. M. Dziuba
- Date(s):
- 1961/1995
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- English
- Russian
- Extent:
- 179 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Materials housed include programs of “round tables” held in Kiev and L’viv/L’vov: “Historical, Sociopolitical, and Culturological Issues of the Jewish National Renaissance in the Context of the Contemporary Ethnopolitical Situation in Ukraine (4-5 December 1990) and “Ukrainian Jewish Relations: Past and Present” (11 August 1992); materials and documents pertaining to I. M. Dziuba’s involvement in organising and holding the international Issues of Ukrainian-Jewish Relations Conference (Kiev, 7-9 June 1991) and the international Jewish-Ukrainian Public Opinion Forum (Jerusalem, 31 August – 7 September 1992), including conference programs and section plans; lists of participants and organising committee members; press releases; correspondence with Judaica specialists, institutions, organisations, and officials; report synopses and texts; etc. The section containing Dziuba’s correspondence, moreover, includes letters of his (handwritten manuscript drafts) to various persons that deal with humanitarian issues and with developing research and cultural contacts between Ukraine and Israel and popularising Jewish art and literature; among these are letters to the Israeli historian Prof. M. Al’tshuler (1983); Drohobych philology professor M. D. Feller (1984); Ia. Suslenskyi, commentator and director of the Israeli Society for Jewish-Ukrainian Relations (1994); and to the Israeli consul general in Moscow, A. Levin, in this case requesting assistance in helping Chernivtsi/Chernovtsy student T. A. Savka fulfil her dream of studying Hebrew at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (attached is T. A. Savka’s own letter on this subject to Ukrainian poet M. A. Fishbein [1991]).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Ukrainian literary scholar, critic, public figure, and politician Ivan Mykhailovych Dziuba was born in 1931 in the village of Nikolaevka (now in the Volnovakha district, Donets’k region). He graduated from the Donetsk Pedagogical Institute and completed postgraduate studies at the Shevchenko Institute of Literature (1956). He worked at publishing houses and in the periodical press. He is the author of a whole range of studies on the history of Ukrainian literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; of literatures of peoples of the East; studies on issues pertaining to interethnic relations; literary criticism articles devoted to the contemporary literary process in Ukraine; etc. In the 1970s, he was subjected to political repression for his views, particularly as expressed in the book Internationalism or Russification? [Internatsionalizm chy rusyfikatsiia?] (1968). He has served as the president of the republic’s Ukrainology Association (from 1989 on); in 1992 was made an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; served as minister of culture of Ukraine from 1992-94; and is a laureate of the O. Y. Bilets’kyi literary and arts criticism prize (1987) and the Ukrainian SSR’s state Shevchenko prize (1991).
- Access points: persons/families:
- Al’tshuler, M.
- Dziuba, Ivan Mykhailovych
- Feller, M. D.
- Fishbein, M. A.
- Levin, A.
- Savka, T. A.
- Suslenskyi, Ia.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory structured by document type (literary genre) and chronologically (correspondence is arranged alphabetically by addressee and correspondent name).
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary