Literary archives of Natan Ilyich Zabara

Identifier
irn514324
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2003.259
  • RG-31.025
Dates
1 Jan 1930 - 31 Dec 1964
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

boxes

folders

3

3

74 digital files, PDF

56 microfiche,

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Natan Ilyich Zabara was a Jewish writer (born on December 27, 1908, in Rogachev, a village in Volunsky region to a potter’s family, and died in Feb. 19, 1975 in Kiev, Ukraine). He declared himself as a Jewish prose-writer in the beginning of the thirties. His stories and novels had been published in periodical publications in Kiev, Moscow, Minsk and Birobidjan. Along with the big group of Ukrainian and Jewish writers, was charged with ‘nationalistic propaganda’ and in 1951 sentenced to10 years imprisoned in the Magadan labor camps. In 1956 Zabara was freed because “of the absence of any crime in his deeds”. He returned to Kiev and was seriously ill until his death.

Archival History

Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry (Judaica Center) of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry (Judaica Center) of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the photocopied collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Sept. 2003 and accretion in June 2017.

Scope and Content

Contains novels, plays, and letters by Natan Ilyich Zabara.

System of Arrangement

Organized in the following order: Rg-31.0250 ( Folder 1, 2); Rg-31.02502 (Folder 3); Rg-31.02503 (Folder 4, 5, 6); Rg-31.02504 (Folder 7) ; Rg-31.02505 (Folder 8); Rg-31.02506 (Folder 9); Rg-31.02507 (Folder 10); Rg-31.02508 (Folder 11); Rg-31.02509 (Folder 12); Rg-31.02510 (Folder 13); Rg-31.02511(Folder 14): Rg-31.02512 (Folder 15); Rg-31.02513 (Folder 16) Rg-31.02514 ( Folder 17,18); Rg-31.02515 (Folder 19); Rg-31.02516 (Folder 20, 21)

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry (Judaica Center) of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine

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