Metadata: A. F. Margolin
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
- Phone number:
- (812) 310-28-56
- Web address:
- http://www.nlr.ru
- Email:
- office@nlr.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 1173
- Title:
- A. F. Margolin
- Title (official language):
- МАРГОЛИН А. Ф.
- Creator/accumulator:
- A. F. Margolin
- Date(s):
- 1962/1978
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 56 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- The fonds’ documents are distributed according to the following three sections. 1) The first section includes A. F. Margolin’s studies, which are mainly in the field of historical linguistics, and were mostly written in Hebrew or Yiddish; they are frequently accompanied by the author’s translation into Russian. These include “Main Issues of the Hebrew Language” (1966); “An Experiment in Vocalizing Written Hebrew” (1969); “Orthography in the Books of Genesis and Ezra” (1977); “A Mathematical Model for Illustrating the Process of Supplementing Biblical Orthography” (1978); “Applying Probability Theory’s Bernoulli Formula in Calculating the Completeness of the ‘Qatal’ Phonetic Type in the Pentateuch” (1973); etc. Literary works include the libretto for a literary-musical composition on Jewish folk musicians titled “Klezmers” (1971); epigrams and sonnets (1976); translations into Russian from Yiddish, Hebrew, and English of the poetry of Itsik Manger, Sh. (S.) Chernikhovskii (1970-77), Avraham Shlonsky (1967-71); stories and novellas of Mordechai Ovadyahu (1976), M. Shamir (1964); plays by Aharon Megged (1965), I. Shtein (1976); and works of Jewish folklore, including “Old Everyday Songs” (1976), “Songs of Labor, Class Struggle, and Service in the Tsar’s Army” (1976), and “Soviet Songs”; as well as Yiddish translations of works by A. S. Pushkin (1976) and M. V. Ivakovskii (1972). 2) The inventory’s second section contains materials A. F. Margolin used in writing his studies, mainly citations from the works of other scholars, including I. M. Pul’ner and I. Stuchevskii (1960s). 3) The third section contains A. F. Margolin’s correspondence (1960s-70s), including with M. Abinur (1972), Ze’ev Ben-Haim (1962-72), B. Gaponov (1969), I. Evin (1970), M. I. Zand (1970), M. Bitson (1971), Kh. Rabin (1965), and the translator and poet Avraham Shlonsky (A. F. Margolin’s correspondence with Avraham Shlonsky was apparently being prepared for publication, and constitutes a single file titled “My correspondence with the poet Avraham Shlonsky. A collection of letters from A. F. Margolin to Avraham Shlonsky and Avraham Shlonsky’s replies,” 1975).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Hebraist Abram Faivelevich Margolin (1897-?) was an electrical engineer by training; he was the author of several studies on the orthography of the text of the Bible and on reforming the orthography of modern Hebrew. He also performed verse translations (Hebrew- and Yiddish-Russian and Russian-Hebrew). In 1976 he donated some of his unpublished research and literary works, most of which are in Hebrew and Yiddish, to the State Public Library.
- Access points: locations:
- Russia
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abinur, M.
- Ben-Haim, Ze’ev
- Bitson, M.
- Chernikhovskii, Sh. (S.)
- Evin, I.
- Gaponov, B.
- Ivakovskii, M. V.
- Manger, Itsik
- Margolin, A. F. (Abram Faivelevich)
- Megged, Aharon
- Ovadyahu, Mordechai
- Pul’ner, I.
- Pushkin, A. S.
- Rabin, Kh.
- Shamir, M.
- Shlonsky, A.
- Shtein, I.
- Stuchevskii, I.
- Zand, M. I.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary