Register of the E. E. Gopshtein papers
Finding aid prepared by Natasha Porfirenko
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Title: E. E. Gopshtein papers
Date (inclusive): 1916-1981
Collection Number: 93068
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
9 manuscript boxes
(3.7 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Diaries, and historical, biographical and bibliographical writings, relating to the history of the Crimea, especially during
the period from the Russian Revolution to the 1950s; the history of publishing in the Crimea during this period; notable persons
of the Crimea, especially artists; the Jewish community of Simferopol'; and the German occupation of Simferopol' during World
War II. Includes some later correspondence relating to the writings of E. E. Gopshtein.
Creator:
Gopshteĭn, E. E.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1993.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], E. E. Gopshtein Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Alternative Form Available
Also available on microfilm (14 reels).
Biographical Note
| 1885 |
Born, Simferopol, Crimea |
| Before 1917 |
Worked for an insurance company and for the Azov-Don Bank |
| 1917-1918 |
Manager, Finance Department, City of Simferopol |
| 1918 |
Manager, Crimean Communal Bank |
| 1941 December 11 – 1944 April 13 |
Lived in a hiding place during the German occupation of Simferopol |
| 1960 |
Died |
Scope and Content Note
The papers of Evsei Efimovich Gopshtein were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1993 from his granddaughter
Margaret A. Hopstein and from Leonid Hmelevsky, III. They represent only part of his archives, as some papers were destroyed
during World War II and others are in Moscow. As for the very large library on the Crimea that Gopshtein had collected, it
was stolen during the war.
Gopshtein was the only one out of 14,000 Jews in Simferopol to survive the killings and deportations when his city came under
German occupation, hiding as he did in the one-room apartment of a friend for twenty-eight months. (Gopshtein had asked for
her help because he had hidden her cousin, a White Russian Vrangel army officer, from the Bolsheviks some twenty years before.)
An account of that experience, as well as an interview he gave in August 1944, can be found in the biographical file. Also
important are Gopshtein's diaries, of which the Archives holds those parts that cover the war period.
But the bulk of the collection consists of his bibliographical work and writings. Gopshtein was an avid bibliographer and
historian, and compiled many bibliographies of publications relating to the history and people of the Crimea, primarily to
its Jewish population.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ukraine -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Crimea (Ukraine) -- History
Ukraine -- History -- German occupation, 1941-1944
Publishers and publishing -- Ukraine -- Crimea
Art -- Ukraine -- Crimea
Jews -- Ukraine -- Simferopolʹ
World War, 1939-1945 -- Ukraine -- Simferopolʹ
Crimea (Ukraine) -- Biography
Simferopolʹ (Ukraine) -- History
BIOGRAPHICAL FILE
1944-1981
Scope and Contents
Biographical account, clippings, correspondence, and interview, arranged alphabetically by physical form
box 1, folder 1
Biographical account of Gopshtein's life in Simferopol during the German occupation of the city, 1941-1944, published in
The Black Book: The Ruthless Murder of Jews by German-Fascist Invaders Throughout the Temporarily-Occupied Regions of the
Soviet Union and in the Death Campus of Poland During the War 1941-1945
, Holocaust Library, New York, , pp. 369-372.
1981
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy of English and Russian versions
box 1, folder 4-5
Correspondence between Gopshtein's son, Aleksander E. Gopshtein, and the Krymskaia Oblastnaia Biblioteka (Crimea Region Library),
relating to the disposal of E. E. Gopshtein's writings
1965-1975
box 1, folder 6
Interview, Simferopol, .
1944 August 16
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
DIARIES, .
1938-1953
Scope and Contents note
"Iz starykh bumag: Obryvki zapisok simferopolskogo obyvatelia, sovremennika sovetskoi vlasti i Vtoroi mirovoi voiny" (From
Old Papers: Scrap Notes of a Simferopol Inhabitant, Contemporary of Soviet Power and World War II). Holograph. Arranged chronologically
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
1930-1957?
box 2, folder 4
General.
Scope and Contents note
Indexes of Gopshtein's bibliographies, 1930-1954
box 2, folder 5
Military publications
1933
box 4, folder 6-13
"Liudi Kryma: Alfavitnyi perechen biograficheskikh i bibliograficheskikh dannykh" (Alphabetical List of Biographical and Bibliographic
Data on People of the Crimea)
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 5, folder 1-7
"Liudi Kryma: Alfavitnyi perechen biograficheskikh i bibliograficheskikh dannykh" (Alphabetical List of Biographical and Bibliographic
Data on People of the Crimea)
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 6, folder 1-4
"Liudi Kryma: Alfavitnyi perechen biograficheskikh i bibliograficheskikh dannykh" (Alphabetical List of Biographical and Bibliographic
Data on People of the Crimea)
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 6, folder 5
"Ob odnoi staroi knige: Bibliograficheskaia zametka" (About an Old Book: Bibliographical Note), .
1928
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 6, folder 6
"Istoriko-bibliograficheskoe opisanie statistiko-ekonomicheskikh obsledovanii byvshei Tavricheskoi gubernii i Kryma: Konets
18 veka, 19 i pervoe desiatiletie 20 veka" (Historical Description of the Statistical Economic Research of the Former Tavriia
Region and the Crimea), .
1954
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 6, folder 7-8
"Bibliografiia istorii revoliutsionnogo dvizheniia i sobytii pervoi i vtoroi rossiiskikh revoliutsii v Krymu, " (History of
the Revolutionary Movement and Events of the First and Second Russian Revolutions in the Crimea, 1830-1957)
1957?
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
WRITINGS
1916-1937
Scope and Contents
Articles, drafts of unpublished books, and histories, arranged chronologically by title
box 7, folder 1
"Grifony v iskusstve sinagog Kryma: K ikonografii tavricheskikh sinagog" (Elements of Biblical Archeology in the Arts of Tavriia
Synagogues)
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 7, folder 2
"Na starom evreiskom kladbishche v Simferopole vesnoi 1934 goda" (In the Old Jewish Cemetery in Simferopol in Spring of 1934)
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 7, folder 3
"Pogovorki, poslovitsy, rugan i prokliatiia evreiskogo naseleniia goroda Simferopolia: K materialam po folkloru evreev v SSSR"
(Sayings, Proverbs, and Swear Phrases of the Jewry in the City of Simferopol before World War I: Materials on the Folklore
of Jews in the USSR)
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 7, folder 4
"Evreiskie narodnye kartinki" (Jewish Folk Pictures),
Jewish Life, .
1916 July 31
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 7, folder 5-10
"Revolutsiia v Krymu: Epizodicheskaia khronika, v ocherkakh i nastroeniiakh voennoi, obshchestvenno-politicheskoi, kulturnoi
i bytovoi zhizni v Krymu v gody revolutsii" (History of the Russian Revolution in the Crimea, 1917-1937), (parts 1 and 2)
1937?
box 8, folder 1-5
"Revolutsiia v Krymu: Epizodicheskaia khronika, v ocherkakh i nastroeniiakh voennoi, obshchestvenno-politicheskoi, kulturnoi
i bytovoi zhizni v Krymu v gody revolutsii" (History of the Russian Revolution in the Crimea, 1917-1937), (parts 1 and 2)
1937?
box 9, folder 1-2
"Revolutsiia v Krymu: Epizodicheskaia khronika, v ocherkakh i nastroeniiakh voennoi, obshchestvenno-politicheskoi, kulturnoi
i bytovoi zhizni v Krymu v gody revolutsii" (History of the Russian Revolution in the Crimea, 1917-1937), (parts 1 and 2)
1937?
PHOTOGRAPHS
1928
Scope and Contents
Six prints depicting different Jewish religious symbols and a fragment of a Synagogue
box 9, folder 3
2 photographs depicting different Jewish religious symbols made out of wood and iron
box 9, folder 4
4 photographs depicting one fragment of a Synagogue
