Metadata: I. Ia. Aizenshtok
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Manuscript and Textology Department of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences’ Shevchenko Institute of Literature
- Holding institution (official language):
- Відділ рукописних фондів та текстології Інституту літератури ім. Т.Г. Шевченка НАН України
- Postal address:
- Room 109, 4 Mikhail Hrushevsky Street, Kyiv-1, 01001, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (44) 279-04-88
- Email:
- rukopys@ukr.net
- Reference number:
- F. 182
- Title:
- I. Ia. Aizenshtok
- Title (official language):
- Айзеншток И.Я.
- Creator/accumulator:
- I. Ia. Aizenshtok
- Date(s):
- 1895/1952
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Russian
- Extent:
- over 5,000 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are letters of the Jewish poet David Hofshtein (1946); the literary scholar and music historian A. A. Gozenpud (1947-52), including a description of privations he experienced during the “war on cosmopolitanism”; and letters (1895, 1897) from Ukrainian poet and Skladka almanac publisher Ts. A. Belikovskii to the Khar’kov writer M. F. Lobodovskii dealing with a polemic arising in the Galician Ukrainian press in 1893 regarding Belikovskii’s role in Ukrainian literary developments of the 1880s-90s in light of his Jewish background.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The literary historian Ieremii Iakovlevich Aizenshtok (1919-88) was born in the city of Elizavetgrad (now Kirovohrad/Kirovograd). He graduated from Khar’kov University’s history and philology department in 1921. From 1922-30, he was a fellow at the Khar’kov Educational Institute’s European cultural research department. He was one of the founders (1926) and first research secretary (1926-31) of the T. Shevchenko Institute in Khar’kov (now the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences’ T. H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature). From 1934 on, he worked at the USSR Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Russian Literature (the Pushkin House) and taught at Leningrad State University. He executed the first full scholarly publication of the diaries of T. H. Shevchenko, and took part in textual preparations and commentaries for the collected works of several nineteenth-century Ukrainian and Russian writers. He authored numerous works on the history of Ukrainian and Russian literature of the nineteenth century, and relations between these traditions and their ties to other literatures; and on the history of Slavic philology of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He died in Leningrad.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Aizenshtok, I. Ia.
- Belikovskii, Ts. A.
- Gozenpud, A. A.
- Hofshtein, David
- Lobodovskii, M. F.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond is currently undergoing scholarly and technical systematisation.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
