Literary archives of Mikhail Yakovlevich Pinchevskiy

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.263 | RG Number: RG-31.022

Overview

Description: Contains poetry, tales, and theatrical plays. Some of the poetry originally was written in Yiddish and translated into Russian. Most of the poetry is dedicated to the Jewish life in Bessarabia (now part of Moldova) and Ukraine (see poems: Bessarabia, Doyna and Zhok, poetry: Broha, Sidur, etc.) and to the heroism of Jewish soldiers during World War II.
Date: inclusive: 1930-1950
Credit Line: 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.
Collection Creator: Mikhail Y. Pinchevskiy
Biography: Mikhail Pinchevskiy was born in 1894 in Telenesti, Bessarabia (Moldova), and received a traditional Jewish education. In 1913 he discontinued his studies in the Odessa Yeshiva and left for Argentina. His first book of poetry was published in Yiddish in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1918. He left Argentina for the Soviet Union in 1926 and settled in Kharkov (now Kahrkiv), Ukraine, where he published several poems, including "Bessarabia" and "Doyna." Mikhail Pinchevskiy was arrested in 1938 as a "spy" and spent 11 months in prison. In 1951 Pinchevskiy was again arrested. He was released in 1954 and died in 1955 in Kiev, Ukraine.

Language: Yiddish Russian Ukrainian
Genre/Form: Poetry. Plays.
Extent: 15 digital files : PDF ; 108 MB .
19 microfiche.
Extent: 8 folders
System of Arrangement: Organized into the following order: Folder 1: Rg-31.022*01, Translations; Folder 2: RG-31.022*02, Plays; Folder 3: RG-31.022*03, Poetry in Yiddish; Folder 4: RG-31.022*04, Poetry in Yiddish and Russian (translations)

Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
Conditions on Use: Publication by a third party requires a formal approval of the Judaica Institute in Kiev, Ukraine. Publication requires a mandatory citation of the original source.
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

Topical Term: Jewish literature--Ukraine. Jews--Ukraine--Poetry. Yiddish poetry--Ukraine. Jewish soldiers--Ukraine--Poetry.
Geographic Name: Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)

Holder of Originals: 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
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: 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 Apr. 2003 and accretion in June 2017.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive