Metadata: A. N. Novitskii
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. 1181
- Title:
- A. N. Novitskii
- Title (official language):
- Новицкий А.Н.
- Creator/accumulator:
- A. N. Novitskii
- Date(s):
- 1928/1992
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Russian
- Extent:
- 755 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Literary manuscripts of Novyts’kyi housed in the fond include his translations (from Yiddish to Ukrainian) of poems by Jewish poets (N. L. Braun, I. Sh. Bukhbinder, Khanan Vainerman, Motl Hartsman, Motl Golshtein, David Hofshtein, M. A. Talalaevskii, and Itzik Fefer); and letters to Oleksa Novyts’kyi from Khanan Vainerman (1956-59), and from R. G. Fefer (Itzik Fefer’s widow) requesting that he prepare an article to be included in a collection devoted to Itzik Fefer (1974); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Ukrainian poet and translator Oleksa Mykhailovych Novyts’kyi (Aleksei Nikolaevich Novitskii) (1914-92) was born in the village of Pii (now in the Myronivka/Mironovka district, Kyiv/Kiev region). He studied at Khar’kov’s B. Grinchenko Pedagogical Technicum and the Maksim Gor’kii Literature Institute in Moscow. He worked as a teacher, and from 1932 on, in the Komsomol [Communist Union of Youth] and party press. During the Second World War, he served as a war correspondent, and after getting wounded, as head of the youth-partisan broadcasting department of the Taras Shevchenko Radio Station. He began to publish poetry in 1932. The author and editor of several poetry collections and anthologies, for many years he also translated literary works of other peoples of the USSR and the world into Ukrainian. He was also well-known as a singer-songwriter. He died in Kiev.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Braun, N. L.
- Bukhbinder, I. Sh.
- Fefer, Itzik
- Fefer, R. G.
- Golshtein, Motl
- Hartsman, Motl
- Hofshtein, David
- Novitskii, Aleksei Nikolaevich
- Talalaevskii, M. A.
- Vainerman, Khanan
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory systematised by document type (literary genre) and chronologically (with letters arranged alphabetically by correspondent name).
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary