Adelheim, Yevhen

Adelheim, Yevhen [Адельгейм, Євген; Adel'hejm, Jevhen], b 14 November 1907 in Kyiv, d 13 June 1982 in Kyiv. Literary scholar and literary critic. He began his literary work in 1929 and wrote numerous articles in journals such as Zhyttia i revoliutsiia and Krytyka (1928–32). His major works written before the Second World War are Poetychnyi molodniak (Young Poets, 1931) and Dva dramaturhy (Two Playwrights, 1938). An intellectual of Jewish origin, he was much criticized during the Stalinist anti-Semitic campaign of the early 1950s. His major postwar works dealing with issues in Ukrainian literature are Poeziia borot'by i truda (The Poetry of Struggle and Labor, 1948), Ukraïns'ka radians'ka poeziia (Soviet Ukrainian Poetry, 1948), and the books on Vasyl Blakytny (Vasyl' Ellan, 1959), and Mykola Bazhan (Mykola Bazhan, 1965, 1970, 1974). His selected writings were published as Kriz' roky (Through the Years, 2 vols, 1979, 1987).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]