Max Vekselman (1931, Teplik – 2021, Beersheba) was a Soviet and Israeli historian who studied the economic history of Central Asia, the history of the Jews in Central Asia, and Yiddish theater in Uzbekistan. He assembled a large collection of materials on Yiddish theaters and Jewish actors in the USSR. Vekselman was born in Ukraine and in the early 1930s his family fled to Tashkent, where he lived until 1991. In 1953 he completed his studies at the Faculty of History of the Central Asian State University in Tashkent. He worked as a researcher in several state archives in Uzbekistan, and taught history at a university in Tashkent. In 1991, he immigrated to Israel, and worked as a researcher in the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His private collection consists of various materials related to his activities as a historian, including his publications and copies of documents from archives in Russia and Uzbekistan. Particularly important are audio interviews that Max Vekselman recorded in Israel with Jewish immigrants from Central Asia and invaluable materials on the history of Yiddish theater and Jewish actors in the Soviet Union. In addition, the collection contains Max Vekselman’s personal documents about the actors, photographs, and theatre posters --
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Vekselman, Max. |
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Additional Titles |
Вексельман Макс Исаакович, историк, архивист |
Contributors |
Lea,Koenig 1929- DoraZak Albert,Stolsky 1905-1987 M. S.Belenʹkiĭ (Moĭseĭ Solomonovich) Elsha Moiseevna,Bezverkhniaia 1910- Anna Iakovlevna,Guzik 1909-1994 Sholom Dov Ber,Gorelik 1941-2017 Abe David,Gurevich 1936- SofiaPemova Ethel,Kovinska 1926-2015 Moskovskii gosudarstvennyi evreiskii teatr Tashkentskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ evreĭskiĭ teatr Kishinevskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ evreĭskiĭ teatr Gosudarstvennyĭ evreĭskiĭ teatr Odessy Kievskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ evreĭskiĭ teatr Gosudarstvennyĭ evreĭskiĭ teatr Vinnit͡sy Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Agudat ḥaside Ḥabad |
Notes |
Audio Part of the collection is on CD (copied material). The collection of Mauricy Weis (P313) at the Central Archives for the history of Jewish people in Jerusalem contains an interview Max Vekselman took with Weis in 1995. |
Host Item |
Vekselman, Max - Private Collection |
Level of Description |
Fonds Record |
Biographical summary |
Max Vekselman, a Soviet and Israeli historian, was born in 1931 in Teplik (Ukraine). When he was a year old, his family fled to Tashkent due to famine in Ukraine. In 1953 he completed his studies at the Faculty of History of the Central Asian State University in Tashkent. In 1964 he defended a graduate thesis on archival history in the Moscow Historical and Archival Institute, and worked as a researcher in several state archives in Uzbekistan. He also taught history at a university in Tashkent and wrote a doctoral dissertation about the economic history of Central Asia in the late 19th-early 20th century. However, the Soviet authorities prevented him from defending it. Max Vekselman assembled a large collection of materials on Yiddish theater and Jewish actors in the USSR. In 1991, he immigrated to Israel, and worked as a researcher in the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He specialized in the history of Jews in Uzbekistan and the Soviet Central Asia, and wrote a book “Yiddish Theater in Uzbekistan: 1933-1947.” Max Vekselman died in Beersheba in 2021. |
Ownership history |
The collection was transferred to the Central Archives for the history of Jewish people in Jerusalem by Max Vekselman |
Language Note |
Russian Yiddish Hebrew English |
National Library system number |
990043421490205171 |
Links |
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- Theater, Yiddish -- Soviet Union -- History
- Jewish actors -- Soviet Union -- History
- Jewish actors -- Soviet Union -- Interviews
- Jews -- Uzbekistan -- History
- Jews -- Uzbekistan -- Tashkent -- Interviews
- Archives -- Uzbekistan
- Refuseniks -- Soviet Union
- Asia, Central -- Economic conditions
- Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
- Teplyk (Ukraine)
- Beersheba (Israel)
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