The Ukrderzhnatsmenvydav (; short for , ) was a publishing house in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, operating from 1926 to 1941, that provided textbooks and other literature in minority languages.
History The publishing house was founded on June 25, 1926 as the Ukrainian branch of the (Tsentroizdat), and was based in Kharkov.Vladimir Borisovich Evtukh. Nimt︠s︡i v Ukraïni, 1920-i-1990-i roky. Intel, 1994. p. 40Hanna Ryvkina. THE ACTIVITY OF THE STATE PUBLISHING HOUSE OF THE NATIONAL MINORITIES OF THE UKRAINIAN SSR (UKRDERZHNATSMENVYDAV)Видання Укрдержнацменвидаву (Державне видавництво національних меншин УРСР) у фондах Відділу фонду юдаїки НБУВ During its first five years of activity, the publishing house issued textbooks in 15 languages (including German, Yiddish, Polish, Czech, Latvian and Estonian).Andrej Kotljarchuk. In the Forge of Stalin - Swedish Colonists of Ukraine in Totalitarian Experiments of the Twentieth Century In 1932, Ukrderzhnatsmenvydav was constituted as a separate publishing house under the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee, and shifted to Kiev two years later.Мемуари та щоденники, Part 2. Тандем-У, 2006. p. 51Anton Weiss-Wendt. On the Margins: About the History of Jews in Estonia. Central European University Press, 2017. p. 125
Languages Publishing in the Yiddish language increased towards the end of the 1920s, reaching a peak in 1930–1931. During the period of 1931–1941 the publishing house issued around 40% of all Yiddish-language books published in the Soviet Union. By October 1930 the publishing house issued four newspapers and five magazines in Yiddish. In addition the publishing house issued a number of industry-oriented publications in Yiddish, with a combined circulation of some 12,000 copies. In 1934 the Ukrderzhnatsmenvydav began promulgating Jewish settlement in Birobidzhan. A Bulgarian language section was subsequently launched in 1932. Between 1926 and 1941 Ukrderzhnatsmenvydav published some 600 Bulgarian-language books, with a total of 900,000 copies.Ėtnichni spilʹnoty Ukraïny: dovidnyk. Feniks, 2001. p. 28 Ukrderzhnatsmenvydav provided textbooks for the three Assyrian schools in Ukraine.
On January 1, 1940, a branch of Ukrderzhnatsmenvydav was set up on 12, Czarnieckiego street in Lvov, tasked with publishing in Yiddish and Polish.Krzysztof Wozniakowski. Łańcuch Elżbiety Szemplinskiej (1941) - zapomniany epizod z dziejów książki i literatury Lwowa czasów II wojny światowej By 1941, the Lvov branch of Ukrderzhnatsmenvydav was the main publisher of Polish-language literature in the Soviet Union.Kerstin Schoor, Ievgeniia Voloshchuk, Borys Bigun. Blondzhende Stern: Jüdische Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller aus der Ukraine als Grenzgänger zwischen den Kulturen in Ost und West. Wallstein Verlag, 2020. p. 253 In April 1941, the Lvov branch of Ukrderzhnatsmenvydav began publishing the literary quarterly , an organ of the Lvov Organization of the Union of Soviet Writers of Ukraine, which would only have a single issue. The editorial college consisted of Elżbieta Szemplińska (editor-in-chief), Jan Brzoza, Aleksander Desniak, Stanisław Jerzy Lec and Jerzy Putrament.Rocznik historii czasopiśmiennictwa polskiego, Vol. 5-6. Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich., 1966. pp. 108, 114
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External links , Greek and Rumeika-language publication issued by Ukrderzhnatsmenvydav in Mariupol Φλογομινιτρες σπιθες, 1933 Νεοτιτα, №4, 1935 Νεοτιτα, №5, 1937. Νεοτιτα, №5, 1937
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