Metadata: Materials of Writers of Modern Ukrainian Literature
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. 75
- Title:
- Materials of Writers of Modern Ukrainian Literature
- Title (official language):
- Материалы писателей новейшей украинской литературы
- Creator/accumulator:
- Writers of Modern Ukrainian Literature
- Date(s):
- 1916/1971
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 1,011 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
-
The collection includes various materials connected with the life and work of Soviet-era Jewish literary and cultural figures: a letter from Osher Shvartsman to A. S. Marmor (requesting that his archive be turned over to David Hofshtein; undated), and a letter from A. S. Marmor to D. M. Kosarik (1961); materials on the discovery of the burial place of Osher Shvartsman, with D. M. Kosarik’s article “V Rafalivtsi zagynuv poet O. Shvartsman” (“The Poet O. Shvartsman Died in Rafalivka”), published in 1948 in the Rovno region newspaper Vpered, and a passage from Osher Shvartsman’s poem “Povstannia” (“The Uprising,” 1918). Also included are photographs of Soviet Jewish writers killed in the Second World War: P. I. Al’tman, Moyshe Aronskii (Zak), Motl Hartsman, S. I. Gel’mond, M. Ia. Gerzhenzon, Sh. R. Gol’denberg, E. Ia. Diamant, and M. I. Khashchevatskii (annotated by I. Ia. Kupianskii).
The fonds also has a collection of biographical documents of writers of Soviet Ukraine compiled in the late 1940s and early 1950s by the Literature Institute’s Department of Bio-bibliographic Dictionaries and Literary-Historical Chronology. These documents include autobiographies by A. I. Brodskii (1949), R. M. Brusilovskii (1949), Khanan Vainerman (1946; with an accompanying letter by the poet); A. M. Velednitskii (1947); Nosn Zabara (undated); A. Ia. Kagan (1947; with a bibliography appended); E. I. Kal’nitskii (1946); Itsik Kipnis (undated; appended is a list of periodicals in which this writer’s work was printed); S. M. Levitina (1946); N. M. Lur’e (1946; with an accompanying letter by the writer); Hershl Polianker (undated); E. Kh. Raitsyn (1946; with an accompanying letter by this translator); R. S. Skomorovskii (1946); N. M. Strokovskii (1946); Kh. Kh. Tabachnikov (undated); B. V. Tsukker (two, undated); S. N. Erlikhman (1946; with an accompanying letter by the author); and bio-bibliographic reference materials on P. I. Al’tman, Moyshe Aronskii, and others.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Al’tman, P. I.
- Aronskii (Zak), Moyshe
- Aronskii, Moyshe
- Brodskii, A. I.
- Brusilovskii, R. M.
- Diamant, E. Ia.
- Erlikhman, S. N.
- Gel’mond, S. I.
- Gerzhenzon, M. Ia.
- Gol’denberg, Sh. R.
- Hartsman, Motl
- Hofshtein, David
- Kagan, A. Ia.
- Kal’nitskii, E. I.
- Khashchevatskii, M. I.
- Kipnis, I. N.
- Kosarik, D. M.
- Kupianskii, I. Ia.
- Levitina, S. M.
- Lur’e, N.
- Marmor, A. S.
- Polianker, Hershl
- Raitsyn, E. Kh.
- Shvartsman, Osher
- Skomorovskii, R. S.
- Strokovskii, N. M.
- Tabachnikov, Kh.
- Tsukker, B. V.
- Vainerman, Khanan
- Velednitskii, A. M.
- Zabara, N. I.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds' inventory and card file are structured alphabetically by writer name and work title.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
