M. A. Fomuliaeva

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Державний архів Херсонської області

Scope and content:: Documents housed in the fonds include a letter from M. A. Fomuliaeva (2 November 1964) to the Ukrainian-Jewish poet A. I. Katsnel’son (1914-2004) regarding Yiddish-to-Ukrainian translations performed by her and the poet A. I. Kopshtein (1914-40) at the request of the Jewish literary scholar Khayim Loytsker (1898-1970); two letters from Khayim Loytsker to M. A. Fomuliaeva (1964) that contain a request to send her translations for a Ukrainian-language collection of the poetry of the Jewish poet Osher Shvartsman (1889-1919) timed to coincide with the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth [this refers to this edition: Osher Shvartsman, Poezії: pereklad z ievreis’koї (ed. by Khayim Loytsker), Kyiv, 1965; the collection includes six Shvartsman poems translated by M. A. Fomuliaeva]; and Loytsker’s comments on the translations themselves. There is also an undated draft from this same period of a letter from M. A. Fomuliaeva to Khayim Loytsker, which among other things deals with the former’s delivering of translations she had made from the Yiddish (the fate of which remains unknown) to her mentor, the Ukrainian poet Pavlo Tychyna.

Administrative/biographical history:: The Ukrainian poet Mariia Andreevna Fomuliaeva (1910-68) was born in the city of Bendery (Bessarabia province; now in the Republic of Moldova). She lived in Kherson from 1914 on, and graduated from the Kherson Pedagogical Institute. She engaged in teaching and literary activity. She became a member of the board of the Kherson Association of Proletarian Writers in 1928; and in 1930, of the literary group Molodniak [The Youngsters]. She began working in the local press in 1939. In 1941-45, she worked as a nurse in a military hospital. She is the author of the poetry collection Materi dvi u mene [I Have Two Mothers, 1961], and of pieces in the periodical press. She died in Kherson.

Access points: persons/families:: Fomuliaeva, Mariia Andreevna; Katsnel’son, A. I.; Kopshtein, A. I.; Loytsker, E. B.; Shvartsman, Osher; Tychyna, Pavlo

Subject terms:: Correspondence; Jewish languages; Jewish languages--Yiddish; Literature; Literature--Writers, poets, and playwrights; Professions; Professions--Scholars (secular), scientists, and academics

System of arrangement:: The fonds includes a single inventory systematised chronologically.