Literary archives of Natan Ilyich Zabara

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 

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. 

Literary archives of Natan Ilyich Zabara 

boxes folders 3 3 74 digital files, PDF 56 microfiche, 

Contains novels, plays, and letters by 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 

Organized in the following order: Rg-31.025*0 ( Folder 1, 2); Rg-31.025*02 (Folder 3); Rg-31.025*03 (Folder 4, 5, 6); Rg-31.025*04 (Folder 7) ; Rg-31.025*05 (Folder 8); Rg-31.025*06 (Folder 9); Rg-31.025*07 (Folder 10); Rg-31.025*08 (Folder 11); Rg-31.025*09 (Folder 12); Rg-31.025*10 (Folder 13); Rg-31.025*11(Folder 14): Rg-31.025*12 (Folder 15); Rg-31.025*13 (Folder 16) Rg-31.025*14 ( Folder 17,18); Rg-31.025*15 (Folder 19); Rg-31.025*16 (Folder 20, 21)