Borovoy, Saul Yakovlevich

Born in the family of lawyer Yakov Aronovich Borovoy and Elizaveta Davidovna Brilling. Brother of Israeli politician David Bar-Rav-Haya .

In 1924, Borovoy graduated from the Law Faculty of the Odessa Economic Institute, and at the same time he studied at the Faculty of Archeology. In 1930 he graduated from the graduate school at the Central Scientific Library and successfully defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of pedagogical sciences (“Scientific Library in Modern Conditions”), which in the same year was published as a separate book in Kiev . Subsequently, in the aggregate of publications, he was awarded the degree of candidate of historical and candidate of economic sciences.

Borovoy's professional career began with the Jewish Academic Library in the early 1920s . He later worked at the Central Scientific Library and at the State Archive; taught at various higher education institutions.

In the 1930s , Borova focused almost exclusively on Jewish history. He discovers in the archives of the Zaporizhzhya Sich opened by A. A. Skalkovsky many documents in the Jewish language that formed the basis of his doctoral dissertation “Studies on the history of Jews in Ukraine of the 16th – 18th centuries” ( 1940 ), which was defended at the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The dissertation consisted of three parts - “Jews in the Zaporizhzhya Sich”, “National Liberation Struggle of the Ukrainian People Against Polish Domination and the Jewish Population of Ukraine” and “Jews in Left-Bank Ukraine in the 17th — 18th Centuries”. The first two parts were published in the journals "Historical Digest" and "Historical Notes", and the third remained unreleased.

In 1934 - 1977 , Borovoy worked as a professor at the Odessa Credit and Economic Institute.

In 1978 he moved to Moscow. Recent studies by S. Ya. Borovoy are devoted to the death of Odessa Jewry during the Second World War. The book of memoirs of a scientist ( 1993 ) covers the period from pre-revolutionary years to the present day; it shows the figures of the Jewish culture of old Odessa, people of art, philosophers, historians and revolutionaries.

In total, Borova published more than 200 works - articles, books, chapters, textbooks, articles in reference books and encyclopedias, reviews.

He was buried in Odessa.

In 2003, the centennial anniversary of the birth of S. Ya. Borovoy was widely celebrated in Odessa - a number of publications appeared in the press, the scientific conference “Odessa and Jewish Civilization” was held in November, dedicated to his memory, the Migdal OC opened in the Museum of the History of Jews of Odessa exhibition dedicated to the scientist.

• Jewish agricultural colonization in old Russia . Politics, ideology, economy, life. According to archival materials. / M., M. and S. Sabashnikovs, type 14. Mospoligraf, 1928. - 200 pp. - 2000 copies. ^[2]
• Credit and banks of Russia . (Mid XVII century. - 1861) / M., Gosfinizdat, 1958.- 288 p. - 2500 copies. ^[3]
• Credit policy and banks of Russia in the XVIII century . (From a lecture on the history of the people's economy of the USSR). - Benefit. for the study. course "Stories of Nar. economy of the USSR ”and the course“ Money and credit of the USSR ”. Odessa, 1957. - 500 copies. ^[four]
• The economic history of the USSR and foreign countries : [Textbook for econ. specialist. universities] / D. ist. n., prof. Borovoy S.Ya., D. e. n., prof. Belchuk V.I., D.E. n., prof. Veliev T.S. and etc.] ; Ed. c. n., prof. I.N. Shemyakin [et al.]. - Moscow: Higher. School, 1978.- 551 p. - 40,000 copies. ^[five]
• Memories / Saul Borova; [Entry. Art. M. Sokolyansky; Note and biobliogr. commentary. V. Kölner]. - M.; Jerusalem: Heb. University in Moscow, 1993. - 383 p. In the foreword author: prof. S. Ya. Borova. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-7349-0005-2 .

• Jews in the Zaporizhzhya Sich (1934, article).
• The national liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people against Polish rule and the fate of the Jewish population in Ukraine (1941, article).
• The extermination of the Jewish population of Odessa during the fascist occupation (1946, unpublished article for the Black Book ; published in 1989).
• Odessa: a study of the history of the heroic city (et al .; 1st ed., 1947; 2nd ed., 1957).
• A. Miscavige before the December uprising (article, 1956).
• Jews of the Left-Bank Ukraine of the XVII — XVIII centuries (manuscript).
• Jews of Odessa (manuscript).
• Jews in the Russian socio-political movement in the first half of the XIX century (manuscript).
• History of Odessa in jokes (manuscript).

• Borovoy Saul - article from the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070928000544/http://stratum.ant.md/6_00/articles/dobroliub/dobroliub01.htm .
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070430202305/http://www.moria.farlep.net/en/almanah/01_13.htm .
• https://www.migdal.org.ua/migdal/museum/3430/ .
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070927035631/http://jn.com.ua/community/borovoy_801.html .
• Ganelin P. Sh., Lebedev S.K., Lurie Ya. S., Tartakovsky A.G. S.Ya. Borova (1903-1989) // Patriotic History . - 1994. - No. 3 . - S. 161-170 .
• Horowitz B. Evolution of Saul Borovoi as a historian of Ukrainian Jewry: the life and career of a Jewish scholar from Odessa in Soviet times = Saul Borovoi's Evolution as a Historian of Ukrainian Jewry in the Early Soviet Period // Knowledge. Understanding. Skill . - 2014. - No. 3 . - S. 376-388 . Archived on April 17, 2015.