Metadata: L. V. Berman
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- The National Library of Russia
- Holding institution (official language):
- Российская национальная библиотека. Отдел рукописей.
- Postal address:
- 91069, Russia, St. Petersburg, ul. Sadovaia, д. 18, main building; tel.: (812) 310-28-56; fax: (812) 310-61-48; e-mail: office@nlr.ru http://www.nlr.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 1250
- Title:
- L. V. Berman
- Title (official language):
- БЕРМАН Л. В.
- Creator/accumulator:
- L. V. Berman
- Date(s):
- 1875/1985
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 366 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Most of the fonds covers Lazar’ Vasil’evich Berman’s teaching and literary activities (1920s-60s); these materials include autobiographical statements (1937-69); an autograph letter of Sholom Aleichem in response to a letter that L. V. Berman had published in the journal Rassvet (no. 2, 1909) requesting material on the public and literary activities of his father V. L. Berman (February 1909); a complaint submitted to the board of the Union of Soviet Writers regarding L. V. Berman’s exclusion from the permanent staff of Druzhnye rebiata for having a “non-Russian surname” (undated); etc. There is also information related to Jewish history and culture in L. V. Berman’s memoirs and in his correspondence with relatives, particularly V. P. Berman; and with Ilya Ehrenburg, Viktor Shklovskii, V. A. Rozhdestvenskii, B. D. Suris, E. Iaroslavskii, V. I. Iokhel’son, V. G. Bogoraz-Tan (1930s-70s).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Lazar’ Vasil’evich Berman (1894-1980) was a writer, poet, and teacher, and was the son of the prominent Jewish public figure V. L. (Z. V.) Berman. He was educated at St. Petersburg’s Tenishev school and at St. Petersburg University law school. He worked in the editorial offices of the journals Novyi Robinzon, Golos zhizni, Leninskie iskry, Druzhnye rebiata, Begemot, Ezh, and Uzh. After 1917, he served in the Red Army, and was a veteran of the Second World War. He organised the earliest go-kart course.
- Access points: locations:
- Russia
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised by structure.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
