Metadata: D. M. Kosarik
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. 513
- Title:
- D. M. Kosarik
- Title (official language):
- Косарик Д.М.
- Creator/accumulator:
- D. M. Kosarik
- Date(s):
- 1926/1978
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Yiddish
- Polish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 2,888 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
- Housed in the fond are materials connected to D. M. Kosarik’s literary scholarship and biographical research on the Jewish poet Osher Shvartsman: the manuscript of an essay on his life and work; texts of poems by Shvartsman in Yiddish (in Russian transliteration) and in Russian translation; a collection of Shvartsman’s poems with an inscription by G. I. Polianker, who gave this book to Kosarik; newspaper articles on Shvartsman and reports on Kosarik’s discovery of the circumstances of the poet’s death and his grave in the village of Rafalovka (Rovno region); photographs of Osher Shvartsman and of his gravestone, and reminiscences of him; a photocopy of a note in which Shvartsman asks his wife A. S. Marmor to turn over his archive to the poet David Hofshtein; D. M. Kosarik’s correspondence with A. S. Marmor, and letters to the latter from her son D. O. Shvartsman written from the front; an invitation to a joint expanded session of scholarly councils of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Ukrainian Literature and Jewish Culture Office on the occasion of the discovery of Osher Shvartsman’s grave (1948); and materials received by D. M. Kosarik on the occasion of a literary evening in commemoration of Osher Shvartsman. There are also typewritten texts of David Hofshtein’s poem “Moscow” (a copy of the original in roman transliteration and an interlinear translation into Russian); D. M. Kosarik’s correspondence with the literary scholar L. Cherniak (Moscow) during the latter’s preparation of an anthology of Soviet Jewish poetry; a handwritten poster for an evening to mark the thirty-year anniversary of the death of Mendele Moykher-Sforim (1947); notes on the subject of the Babi Yar atrocity, and a newspaper article by the Kiev writer R. S. Skomorovskii titled “The Bloody Ravine [Yar]” (1945); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Ukrainian writer and literary scholar Dmitrii Mikhailovich Kosarik (a pseudonym; real surname: Kovalenko) (1904-92) was born in the village of Fidrovka (Poltava province) [now the village of Fedorivka/Fedorovka, Hlobyne/Globino district, Poltava region]. He graduated from Khar’kov’s G. S. Skovoroda Higher Pedagogical Courses and completed his postgraduate studies at Khar’kov University. He was conferred the Candidate of Science degree in philology in 1945. From 1938-52 (with some gaps), he worked at the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences’ Shevchenko Institute of Literature; and from 1955-63 at the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences’ Institute for the Study of Art, Folklore, and Ethnography. During the Second World War, he served as a war correspondent, propagandist, and head of the republic’s museum administration. His work was first published in 1923. His first collection of stories, The Red Baptismal Chalice [Chervona kupil’], came out in 1925. From the 1930s on, he engaged mainly in literary criticism and artistic biography. He died in Kiev.
- Access points: locations:
- Rafalovka
- Access points: persons/families:
- Cherniak, L.
- Hofshtein, David
- Kosarik, D. M.
- Marmor, A. S.
- Mendele Moykher-Sforim
- Polianker, Hershl
- Shvartsman, D. O.
- Shvartsman, Osher
- Skomorovskii, R. S.
- Subject terms:
- Cemeteries
- Cemeteries--Gravestones
- Commemoration
- Correspondence
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Literature
- Literature--Novels, poetry, and plays
- Literature--Writers, poets, and playwrights
- Manuscripts
- Mass murder
- Memoirs
- Newspaper clippings
- Photographs
- Posters
- Professions
- Professions--Scholars (secular), scientists, and academics
- World War II
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes two inventories (1, 3). Op. 1, the main one, is systematised by document type (literary genre; letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent name); op. 3 is supplemental to op. 1.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary