Rachel Aronowna Kownator

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Rachel Aronovna Kownator ( Russian Рахиль Ароновна Ковнатор ; scientific transliteration Rachil 'Aronovna Kovnator ; born 1899 ; died 1977 ) was a Soviet Yiddish-speaking author and journalist who also used her psychological knowledge to serve communist propaganda .

life and work

She studied at the Psychoneurological Research Institute in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) and was politically active from a young age. She joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia (RSDRP) in 1917 and from 1921 worked for the Schenotdel (women's department). She later worked at the Marx-Engels Institute (Russian Институт К. Маркса и Ф. Энгельса). During the Second World War she worked in the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAFK) and published in the newspaper Ejnikajt (Unity). Various reports on the genocide of Soviet Jews in the Black Book were prepared by her for printing. In various translations published her book about the mother of Lenin in Foreign Languages Press in Moscow . She also wrote about two heroes of the Soviet Union , both portraits appeared in the Yiddish-language Moscow publisher Der Emes in the series Held fun Sovetnfarband ( Yidd. For "Hero of the Soviet Union") (1943 and 1948).

Publications (selection)

Source: Russian State Library

  • Lenin's mother .
    • (German) Berlin, Verlag Neuer Weg, 1945 & Singen-Hohentwiel : Volks-Verlag, 1947 (also published in various other translations)
  • The hero fun Sovetnfarband - Yoysef Makovski (Moscow: Der Emes, 1943)
  • M. Gorʹkij v vospominanijach sovremennikov [M. Gorky in the memories of contemporaries]. Moskva: Gos. Izd. Chudožestvennoj Literatury, 1955 (Serija literaturnych memuarov / Серия литературных мемуаров / Series of Literary Memoirs)

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. Jane McDermid and Anna Hillyar: Midwives of the Revolution: Female Bolsheviks and Women Workers in 1917. (Women's History). 1999, p. 80
  2. ↑ Barbara Evans Clements: Bolshevik Women , 1997, p. 211 - according to Katy Turton (2004).
  3. ↑ marxforschung.de ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : "1930 research assistant at MEI." @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marxforschung.de
  4. ↑ Ilja Ehrenburg , Wassili Grossman (ed.): The black book: the genocide of the Soviet Jews. German translation of the complete version, edited by Arno Lustiger . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994, ISBN 3-498-01655-5 .
  5. ↑ In detail (information based on the German translation):
    • In the city of Khmelnik ( Vinnitsa region ) (communication from AI Bekker)
    • Report by Rahel Fradis-Milner ( Chernivtsi )
    • The murder of the Jews in Glubokoje and in other places (based on materials from the brothers M. and G. Rajak)
    • In Bialystok
    • The priest Glagolev (Referring to the Ukrainian Orthodox priest Alexei Alexandrovich Glagolev)
    • Ponary (report by engineer J. Farber)
  6. ↑ cf. yadvashem.org (with other titles in the series); see. historicus.ru
  7. ↑ Результатов: 32, страница 1/4 ( Russian ) Russian State Library. Retrieved September 29, 2019.

literature

  • Jane McDermid, Anna Hillyar: Midwives of the Revolution: Female Bolsheviks and Women Workers in 1917. (Women's History). 1999 ( partial online view )

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personal data
SURNAME Kownator, Rachel Aronovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rachel Kovnator; Kovnator, R .; Kownator, R .; Kownator, Rachel; Kownator, Rachil Aronovna; Kovnator, Rachil 'Aronovna; Kovnator, Rachil 'Aronovna; Kovnator, Rakhil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet Yiddish-speaking communist author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
DATE OF DEATH 1977