Raisa Noevna Bloch (married to Gorlin ; September 17 (29), 1899 , St. Petersburg - late 1943 , Germany , concentration camp ) - poet of the Russian emigration, wife of the poet Mikhail Gorlin .
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| Date of Birth | September 17 (September 29 ) 1899 |
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| Date of death | 1943 |
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| Occupation | poetess |
| Language of Works | and |
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Biography
She was born in the family of attorney Noah Lvovich Bloch (1850-1911) and Dora Yakovlevna Malkiel (from the famous merchant family Malkiel ). N. L. Blokh is the author of the book “From the legal practice of the departments for the construction of state-owned railways: Luninets-Gomel, Baranovichi-Bialystok, Siedlets-Malkinsky, Brest-Kholmsky and Gomel-Bryansk” (St. Petersburg: type. V. Bezobrazova and Co. , 1889), compiled on the basis of the experience of his own service as the legal adviser of the departments for the construction of these roads.
She graduated from the Tagantsev gymnasium. She studied at the historical department of Petrograd University ( 1919 - 1920 ), where she specialized in medieval studies with O. A. Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaya .
In 1921 (according to other sources in 1922 ) emigrated; lived in Berlin . She worked at the publishing house "Petropolis" , which was led by her brother Jacob ( 1892 - 1968 ). [one]
In Berlin, she met her future husband M. Gorlin (1909-1944).
In 1933 she fled from Germany to Paris , worked at the National Library of France. With the outbreak of World War II, she lost her husband and daughter. When trying to cross the Swiss border in 1943 she was captured, ended up in Drancy [2] , died in a German concentration camp.
Creativity
She studied in the translation studio of M. L. Lozinsky . Member of the All-Russian Union of Poets (since 1920 ). M. Lozinsky, as a member of the selection committee, wrote: “In the poems of Raisa Bloch there is lyricism, there is an undoubted song system. In my opinion, you can hope for it. I would speak for her as a member of the competition. " A. Blok added: “Of course, I agree. Just what will they do, having come together all together, similar to each other with the empty content of their poetry and as diverse as people? ” [3] .
In a review of the book “My City,” Vladimir Nabokov wrote that the book “is nourished by the cool perfumes of Akhmatova.” Georgy Adamovich determined that the poetess belonged to that type of creative people, “for whom art and life are one and the same thing: she writes about what she lives in, what she writes ...” [4]
Speaking about the book “Silence”, Mikhail Tsetlin noted: “Pure lyrics and rests on a direct expression of feeling. for a strong and concentrated feeling - this is a rare gift, and the ability to self-deepen is almost half of the poetic feat .... " [5]
- Collections of poems : “My city” ( 1928 ), “Silence: Poems 1928-1934” ( 1935 ), “Testaments” ( 1939 ; together with Mirra Lot-Borodina).
Translated Latin, German, Italian poets, a number of her translations are included in the book "Testaments".
- Posthumous publications : “Selected Poems” ( 1959 , together with Mikhail Gorlin), “Foreign cities make noise here ...” (Moscow: Izograph, 1996 ).
She participated in collective collections of the Berlin Poetry Circle (Housewarming, 1931 ; Grove, 1932 ; Nevod, 1933 ).
Poems by Raisa Bloch were included in many collections of Russian emigrant poetry. Her most famous poem was “A Random Rumor Brought ...”, performed as a romance by A. N. Vertinsky .
She and M. Gorlin's book, Selected Poems, was published posthumously (Paris - Rhyme, 1959).
Family
- Brother - journalist Jacob Noevich Bloch .
- Cousins (on the maternal side) - linguist Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky , art critic Miron Arkadyevich Malkiel-Zhirmunsky , music teacher, cellist Konstantin Isaakovich Shapiro (1896-1992). The cousin is Magdalena Isaakovna Losskaya (nee Malkiel-Shapiro, 1905-1968), the wife of the church historian V.N. Lossky (son of the philosopher N.O. Lossky ) and the mother of the philologist and theologian Nikolai Lossky .
- Second cousins - philologist and novelist Yakov Lvovich Malkiel , writer Yuri Nikolayevich Tynyanov , Manhattan lawyer and politician Leon Andrew Malkiel (Eng. Leon Andrew Malkiel, 1866-1932), who ran for the post of High Attorney for the State of New York in 1904 and for the post Judges of the New York Court of Appeal (from the Socialist Party) in 1912 and 1920. [6]
Notes
- ↑ Thomas Urban : Russian writers in Berlin in the 1920s ; St. Petersburg 2014, p. 264-270.
- ↑ Raisa Bloch
- ↑ Literary heritage. t. 92. Book. 4. - M.,: Science, 1987.p. 689
- ↑ Steering wheel. - Berlin, 1928, March 7.
- ↑ Tsetlin M. On Contemporary Emigrant Poetry // Modern Notes, Paris, 1935, No. 58
- ↑ Guide to the Yakov Malkiel Papers
Literature
- In memory of the departed. (Memoirs of Eugenia Kannak about the poets Mikhail Gorlin and Raisa Bloch) // Jews in the culture of Russian abroad. Issue 1. 1919-1939 / Comp. Mikhail Parkhomovsky. Jerusalem, 1992, p. 242-252
- Kölner V. “Alien cities rustle here and alien water splashes ...” (About the poetess Raisa Bloch) // Jews in the culture of the Russian abroad. Issue 1. Jerusalem, 1992, p. 253-263
- Voronova T.N.
- A vain bell. Raisa BLOCH 1899, Petersburg - 1943, Germany, concentration camp . New Izvestia . Date of treatment February 27, 2012. Archived May 24, 2012.