Metadata: S. M. Levitina
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. 127
- Title:
- S. M. Levitina
- Title (official language):
- Левитина С.М.
- Creator/accumulator:
- S. M. Levitina
- Date(s):
- 1926/1957
- Language:
- Yiddish
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 170 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Materials housed in the fonds include the manuscript of D. V. Bendas’s Yiddish-language story “Father Has Been Found” (undated) as translated from Yiddish to Ukrainian by Z. Bilenko; the story contains a description of the life of the Jewish population in the Pale of Settlement.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The writer and playwright Sof’ia Markovna Levitina (1891-1957) was born in the city of Novgorod-Severskii (Chernigov province; now Novhorod-Sivers’kyi/Novgorod-Severskii, Chernihiv/Chernigov region). She graduated from the University of Bern’s philosophy department (1909), and from 1910-12 studied at the St. Petersburg Women’s Medical School. She later served in the Red Army as a political worker, and also engaged in Soviet and party work. She wrote in Russian and Yiddish. She was a member of the USSR Union of Writers from 1934 on. Several of her plays were published in Ukrainian and Russian translations (The Basin, 1925; The Bankrupt, 1927; The Attack, 1936; etc.), as were her collections of tales and stories (Piroshki, 1928; The Voice of the Heart, 1942; etc.). She died in Kiev.
- Access points: locations:
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bendas, D. V.
- Bilenko, Z.
- Levitina, S. M.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds’ inventory and card file are structured by document type (literary genre), and within sections, arranged alphabetically by name and title (with correspondence alphabetised by addressee/correspondent name).
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
