DOI:

https://www.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2017-6-92-166

Issue:

2017 №6

Author: Vladimir Khazan
About the author:

Vladimir Khazan, Ph. D. Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

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Abstract:

The literary and epistolary heritage of the famous émigré poet Dovid Knout (David Mironovich Fixman, 1900–1955) has already become the subject of publications and research studies more than once. However, a relatively recent discovery in Israel, where Knout lived the last years of his life, where he died and is buried, a significant and still unknown part of his archive (unpublished poems, prose, articles, diary, letters, etc.) gives a new actuality to the study of his life and works. It may be said that partly unknown (or little-known) Knout opens up to specialists and a broad reader. For this publication several letters from the newly-discovered archive – written by Knout himself (to the first and second wives: Sara-Sophia Grabois and Ariadna Skriabin) and to him by different persons (G. Adamovich, D. Glikberg, R. Grinberg and others) – are selected.

Keywords: Dovid Knout, Georgy Adamovich, Roman Grinberg, Russian émigré, correspondence.
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