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Belletristic Literature, Memoirs

	Stanislaw Ezi Lez “Uncombed Thoughts” (Ukr) Kiev, Duh i Litera, 2006
	The “Uncombed Thoughts” of Stanislaw Ezi Lez is a classic work of Polish literature and of the world literature of the 20th century. “What is it that I’m writing: aphorisms, frashkis, lyrics, or satire? Oh no, I’m writing to myself, to my dairy”, said Stanislaw Ezi Lez who was a participant and a witness of the dramatic events of his time. Recommended for reading more than once.

	Edgar Keret. Stories (Russian and Hebrew) / Translated from Hebrew by A. Dubinska, E. Gilbo, A. Shevchenko – KIEV, Duh i Litera, 2004. – 89 p. ISBN 966-7888-82-7
	This collection is a result of work of the Kiev translation studio created by Emanuel Gelman under the Sohnut Jewish Agency in Kiev in 2002-2003. It includes selected stories by modern Israeli author Etgar Keret from his collections “Pipes”, “My Longing for Kissinger”, and “Anihu". Most of the stories are published in Russian for the first time.

	Faina Braverman. Paths of Memory. Compiled by S.Averbukh. – Kiev, “Oranta”, 2004. – 198 p. ISBN 966-7273-35-0
	This book is a series of essays and articles, speeches in conferences and reminiscences of Faina Braverman – a philologist, outstanding expert in Yiddish, and translator. This book speaks of the pre-war life of shtetl Salnitsa in Podolia, on the fate of a Jewish family, on mame-losh (“mother tongue” as Jewish people lovingly call Yiddish), on the place of Yiddish in the Jewish heritage of the 20th – beginning of the 21st centuries.

	Chaim Beider. Sketches of Jewish Writers.– Кiev, 2004. – 347 с. ISBN 966-7273-36-9
	The book of Chaim Beider “Sketches of Jewish Writers” is a memorial to the Jewish Soviet literature which had been developing for over three quarters of the century in competition with the authorities to win the right to existence. The book tells of the writers who made a weighty contribution to the development of all genres of Jewish literature of those times. Dozens of them suffered in the Soviet prisons and camps, others died at the front. The book also tells of those writers who, having gone through hard testings of the Stalin GULAG, came back to creative work.

	Inna Lisova. Lady Checks Her Luggage… Novels and Stories. Editor M. Petrovsky – Kiev 2003. – 539 pages. ISBN 966-7888-66-5
	The book of the Kiev writer Inna Lisova, author of almost two dozens novels and stories that have been published in the periodicals of Ukraine, USA, Israel, and Russia, is for the first time published in Ukraine not in a journal version. The fates of people of the twentieth century are depicted with deep penetration into their psychology and the wonderful knowledge of their everyday lives. The meaning of the lives of those strata of society that have never found themselves in the “social realism” become the main pathos of Inna Lisova's prose. Independent, with no common characters or plot, her novels and stories make an uninterrupted chain, a so-called “provincial saga".

	Geliy Aronov. Novels of Different Years – Kiev 2002. – 330 pages. ISBN 966-7273-27-Х
	A book of memoirs and stories of this famous Ukrainian author, editor of the "Yehupets" Almanac.

	Perets Markish. Selected Poems / Translated from Yiddish by V. Boguslavska – Kiev 2002. – 331 pages. ISBN 966-7273-23-7
	This book is the first more or less full collection of selected poems of Perets Markish (1895–1952), famous Jewish (Yiddish) poet in Ukrainian translation. Apart from Perets Markish's poems, the book also contains memoirs about the poet and a brief biography.

	Echo of Babiy Yar. Poetic Anthology /Editor, compiler and author of epilogue Y. Kaplan, 2nd edition with addenda. – Кiev, 2001. – 156 pages. ISBN 966-7082-06-7
	The Anthology contains poems by Ukrainian, Russian, and Jewish poets devoted to one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century.

	Native Voice. Pages of Russian-Jewish Literature of the end of the ХІХ – beginning of the ХХ centuries: Book for Reading / Compiler Shimon Markish – Kiev 2001. – 461 pages. ISBN 966-7273-17-2
	The "Native Voice" is a collection of works by Jewish prose writers and poets who wrote in Russian. These works show us the life of a special Jewish civilization that had been formed in Poland, inherited by the Russian Empire and lost in the cataclysms of the last century. This is a lost world of exciting godliness that notices nothing around it and does not look down to the troubles and abominations of everyday life, and at the same time a world of suffocating poverty, incredible misery, self-will and lawlessness…

	Markish P. Storm's Fiancee. Poems / translation from Yiddish by V. Boguslavska – Kiev 2000. – 222 pages. ISBN 966-7267-94-6
	The book contains Ukrainian translations of the poems of the classic of Jewish Yiddish poetry Perec Markis, whose 105th birthday anniversary was celebrated in 2000.

	Aronov G. “How I was.. (Book of prose). – Кiev, 2000. – 204 pages. ISBN 966-7273-08-3
	В названии книги отражен автобиографический характер произведений нашего современника, киевского писателя Гелия Аронова. Его проза пленяет лаконизмом и выразительностью. Даже в самые драматичные моменты повествованияj автор обходится без пафоса и риторики. Острый ум, наблюдательность и неизменная самоирония безошибочно находят прямой путь к сердцу читателя.

	Feller M. Search, Thinking and Memories of a Jew, who Remembers His Grandparents, on Jewish-Ukrainian Relations, Especially on Inhumane and Humane in Them. – Drogobych: “Renaissance” publishers/Editor Y. Radevych-Vinnytsky – 1998. – 376 pages, with illustrations ISBN 966-538-043-5
	The book incorporates memoirs on the “living history”, language studies, mass psychology and materials that reflect Ukrainian-Jewish relations, psychological and social conditions of mutual alienation and mutual penetration in culture of different strata of the two nations that have lived in this lands for thousands of years.

	Markish Sh. Babel and Others/Editor L. Finberg. — Кiev,1996. – 234 pages. ISBN 5-86828-044-X
	The book contains sketches of famous literary critic and expert in culture Shimon Markish on the creativity of Jewish writers in Russia in the first half of the 20th century. The first section is devoted to the creativity of I. Babel, V. Grossman, I. Erenburg, and M. Radnota. The second contains an analysis of the Russian-language Jewish literature.

	Feller M.D. “Search, Thinking and Memories of a Jew, who Remembers His Grandparents, on Jewish-Ukrainian Relations, Especially on Languages and Attitudes to Them” – Drogobych: “Renaissance”publishers / Editor V. Ivanishin. – 1994. – 238 pages. ISBN 5-7707-5173-8
	Автор систематично проводит еврейско-украинские исторические и культурные параллели. Разрыв исторической памяти у большей части евреев и значительное сохранение ее у украинцев Галиции, по мнению автора, существенно связаны с тем, что поколения дедов, которое передает эту память, у евреев в большенстве было уничтожено. Речевой материал свидетельствует не о разрозненности народов, а в пользу взаимоуважительного сосуществования.