Metadata: Moyshe Dubilet
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. 574
- Title:
- Moyshe Dubilet
- Title (official language):
- Дубилет М.И.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Moyshe Dubilet
- Date(s):
- 1920/1972
- Language:
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 19 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
- Included are Moyshe Dubilet’s literary-critical manuscripts (originals in Yiddish and translations into Russian and Ukrainian by M. Sh. Dubinskii, U. M. Levina-Dubilet, and O. Liubomirskii), among them the article “Jewish Soviet Prose” (a reprint from the journal Der shtern, 1940); literary criticism and review articles on Sholom Aleichem (“How Sholom Aleichem Worked,” “Legends concerning Sholom Aleichem,” “Basic Features of Sholom Aleichem’s Realism,” and “Sholom Aleichem the Novelist,” 1939); Mendele Moykher-Sforim (“How Mendele Worked,” “Mendele’s Realism”); Shloyme Ettinger (“Shloyme Ettinger,” 1939); Der Nister (“Der Nister,” “From Mystic Manors to Socialist Capitals,” 1939-40); Meir Wiener (“A Work to be Welcomed,” 1935); Perets Markish (“The Plays of Perets Markish,” “The Death of a Kulak,” 1934, 1939); M. A. Talalaevskii (“A Slow Growth,” 1934); David Hofshtein (“A Tally-Book,” “Poems by Hofshtein,” “The Writings of Hofshtein,” 1939); Yekhiel Falikman (“A Good Beginning,” 1938); Abram Kahan (“On A. Ia. Kahan’s historical novel Arn Liberman,” “Near and Dear,” 1939); Yisroel Aksenfeld (“Yisroel Aksenfeld,” 1939); Khane Levin (“On the Poetry of Khane Levin,” “With a Friendly Smile,” 1940); Il’ia Gordon (“Ingul the Boyar,” “On the Imagery in Three Brothers”, 1939-40); Eli Shekhtman (“The Struggle for a Realistic Image,” “Shekhtman’s Polesye Woods [Polesyer velder],” “A Creative Victory,” 1940); Nosn Zabara (“Two Worlds,” “On Zabara’s novel The Father,” 1930s, 1941); etc. There is also a bibliography of Dubilet’s works compiled by his widow U. M. Levina-Dubilet (1960s); Dubilet’s letters from the front (1941); his widow’s correspondence with the Ukrainian SSR Union of Writers and with Soviet publishing houses on publishing his works (1960-72); a resolution of the USSR Union of Writers on publishing his works (1960); E. B. (Chaim) Loytsker’s article (authorised typescript) “The Critic and Literary Scholar M. Dubilet” (1969) and I. M. Usenko’s article (a clipping from Literaturnaia gazeta) “They Are Among Us” (1946); photos of Moyshe Dubilet (individual and in group photos; 1930s-40s); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The literary scholar and critic Moyshe [Moisei Iosifovich] Dubilet (1897-1941) was born in the town of Dmitrovka (Kherson province) (now a village in the Berdians’k district, Zaporizhzhia/Zaporozh’e region). Upon completing his elementary education in 1914, he studied pedagogy in Odessa; in 1924-26, he studied at the Odessa Pedagogical Institute; and in the 1930s he engaged in postgraduate studies at the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Jewish Proletarian Culture, where he served as a research fellow. His writings were first published in the 1920s in the journals Sovetskaia literatura, Farmest, Der shtern, Der emes, etc. His main area of study was Jewish literature. In 1939, he published the book Critical Articles, which included his studies of Jewish literary classics and Soviet Jewish writers. He authored several literature textbooks for Jewish schools. In 1941, he enlisted in the People’s Militia [Narodnoe opolchenie] and was killed in combat near Kiev.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Aksenfeld, Yisroel
- Dubilet, M. I.
- Dubinskii, M. Sh.
- Ettinger, Sh.
- Falikman, Yekhiel
- Gordon, Il’ia
- Hofshtein, David
- Kahan, Abram
- Levin, Khane
- Levina-Dubilet, U. M.
- Liubomirskii, O.
- Loytsker, E. B.
- Markish, P. D.
- Mendele Moykher-Sforim
- Shekhtman, E. I.
- Sholem Aleichem
- Talalaevskii, M. A.
- Usenko, I. M.
- Wiener, Meir
- Zabara, N. I.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes two inventories provisionally systematised by document type (literary genre). Materials within sections are not systematised.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary