Literary archives of Natan Ilyich Zabara

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