KHATZKL
NADEL (1905-1968)
He was born in Kovno and spent his
childhood years in the town of Krok (Krak).
He was a Soviet Russian bibliographer who also assembled literary
anthologies. He always kept firmly to
the Party line. He began work as a librarian
in 1922 and from that point as a bibliographer as well. From 1925 to 1935, he led the Yiddish
division of the Korolenko State Library in Kharkov. His bibliographic booklet on anti-religious
literature had on its title page the following sub-heading: “Guide to
anti-religious literature for libraries, schools, clubs, anti-religious
circles, and propagandists.” From 1928
to 1948, he published a large number of bibliographies in the Soviet Yiddish
journals: Ratnbildung (Soviet
education), Prolit (Proletarian
literature), Di royte velt (The red
world), and Shtern (Star), and the
newspapers Eynikeyt (Unity) and Der emes (The truth). His own writings and edited works would
include: Lenin in der yidisher poezye,
zamlung (Lenin in Yiddish poetry, anthology) (Kharkov: Tsentral-farlag,
1928), 36 pp.; Af yidishe felder,
lider-zamlung (On Yiddish fields, poetry collection), an anthology of
Soviet Yiddish poetry with an foreword by Y. K. (Kharkov: All-Ukrainian Association for the Agricultural Settlement of
Jewish Workers, 1928), 42 pp.; with Y. Elyovitsh, Onvayzer fun retsenzyes un kritishe artiklen (1922-1928) (Guide to reviews
and critical articles, 1922-1928) (Kharkov: Central State Library, 1929), 72
pp.; Literatur vegn der natsyonaler frage
un yidisher erd-aynordenung in ratn-farband (Literature on the nationality
question and the Jewish land classifications in the Soviet Union),
“Bibliographic guide for propagandists as well as activists and circles of the Association
for the Agricultural Settlement of Jewish Workers” (Kharkov: All-Ukrainian
Association for the Agricultural Settlement of
Jewish Workers, 1930), 56 pp.—a bibliographic selection of books, pamphlets,
and articles in Yiddish, Russian, and Ukrainian (the book also includes a
section on Jewish colonization abroad); Antireligyeze literatur, onvayzer fun antireligyezer literatur far biblyotekes,
shuln… (Anti-religious literature, guide for anti-religious literature for
libraries, schools,…), with a foreword by M. Fayngold (Moscow-Kharkov-Minsk: Tsentrfarlag,
1931), 70 pp.; Lenin un di kinder,
kinstlerishe zamlung far kinder (Lenin and the children, artistic
collection for children) (Kharkov: State publishers
for national minorities of the USSR, 1934), 151 pp.; Birebidzhan (Birobidzhan), a collection of poems and stories
concerning Birobidzhan, edited by Rivke Rubin (Moscow: Emes, 1936), 201 pp.;
with Peysi Altman, Antireligyeze kinstlerishe
zamlung (Anti-religious artistic collection) (Kiev: State publishers for national minorities of the
USSR, 1939), 304 pp.; Stalin (Stalin),
literary collection (Kiev, 1939), 763 pp. + 5 pictures, mostly translated from
Russian and other languages; Sholem-aleykhem,
fargesene bletlekh (Sholem-Aleykhem, forgotten pages), compiled by N. and
Y. Mitlman (Kiev: State publishers
for national minorities of the USSR, 1939), 336 pp.; Sholem-aleykhem, oysgeveylte briv (Sholem-Aleykhem, selected letters),
compiled by N. and Y. Mitlman, with a foreword and annotations by them (Moscow:
Emes, 1941), 322 pp. Nadel published
separate bibliographies for Sholem-Aleykhem in Soviet Yiddish journals and
special collections: “Sholem-aleykhem in ratnfarband far di yorn 1917-1936”
(Sholem-Aleykhem in the Soviet Union for the years 1917-1936), Farmest (Challenge) in Kiev-Kharkov
(1936), pp. 153-61; “Der bester denkmol” (The best monument), a more extensive
bibliography of Sholem-Aleykhem’s works, published in the Soviet Union in
Yiddish, Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, and Uzbek-Yiddish [?] for the years
1921-1931, in Sholem-aleykhem
(Sholem-Aleykhem) (Kiev, 1940), pp. 199-222.
A bibliographic work by him was also published in Sovetish heymland (Soviet homeland) in Moscow (March-April
1962). He died in Kharkov.
Sources:
M. Shteynberg, Yunger boykland (?)
(Kharkov, 1928); A. Borukhov, “Af a baratung vegn biblyografye-vezn” (At a
conference on bibliographic guides), Eynikeyt
(Moscow) (August 9, 1947); Chone Shmeruk, comp., Pirsumim yehudiim babrit-hamoatsot, 1917-1961 (Jewish publications
in the Soviet Union, 1917-1961) (Jerusalem, 1961), see index.
Yankev Birnboym
[Additional
information from: Chaim Beider, Leksikon
fun yidishe shrayber in ratn-farband (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish
writers in the Soviet Union), ed. Boris Sandler and Gennady Estraikh (New York:
Congress for Jewish Culture, Inc., 2011), p. 245.]
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