NOKHUM
SOLOVEY (1916-1941)
He was a Yiddish prose author in
Soviet Russia, about whom little is known.
He lived in Kharkov and Kiev. He
was the author of two books of stories: Pyonerisher
broyz (Pioneer brewery) (Kharkov-Kiev: State publishers for national minorities of the
USSR, 1933), 38 pp.; and Noveln
(Novellas) (Kiev: State publishers
for national minorities of the USSR, 1940), fourteen stories divided into three
parts: “Amol iz geven” (It once was) about life before the revolution; “Di fon
hot geflatert” (The banner fluttered) about the era of the revolution; and “Af
eygener erd” (On one’s own terrain) about life in the Jewish colonies before
the era of Soviet power. Critics lauded
this second volume, especially the stories “Rokhl” (Rachel), “Der letster briv”
(The last letter), and “Dos negerl” (The black man). He contributed work to the almanac Onheyb (Beginning) (Kiev: Ukrainian
state publishers for national minorities, 1940), which featured works by young
Ukrainian poets and prose writers. With
other authors, he compiled the reader Arbet
un shaf, lernbukh farn tseytn klas (Work and workshop, textbook for the
second class) (Minsk: Byelorussian state publishers, 1928), 234 pp.; and Oyftu, khrestomatye farn 2tn lernyor
(Accomplishment, a reader for the second school year) (Moscow-Kharkov-Minsk:
Central Publ., 1930), 129 pp. At the
start of WWII he volunteered to fight at the front and was killed soon
thereafter. Further biographical
information concerning him remains unknown.
Sources:
F. Altman, in Prolit (Kiev) (February
1932), p. 79 pp.; A. Beylin, Sovetishe
literatur (Kiev) (October 1940), pp. 155-57; Chone Shmeruk, comp., Pirsumim yehudiim babrit-hamoatsot,
1917-1961 (Jewish publications in the Soviet Union, 1917-1961) (Jerusalem,
1961), see index.
[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), pp. 254-55.]
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