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Whatever rich your home library is, there will be a day
when all the books prove read. Of course, you may buy new books, but can
you afford it? You may have a look at your friends' bookshelves, but do
they have the same tastes? Anyway, remember, that you always can visit
the Republican Jewish Library.
The library is only 6 years old, but it has more than 5000
books Jewish themes. You can find there a lot of various books, starting
with Josef Flavius and finishing with Igor Guberman's "quatrains".
"Exhibition of Books from Private Collections" is a new program
of the library. And the regular meeting in Library Literature Club was
also devoted to it. The exhibition organized in the course of the OFEK
has been temporarily arranged in the reading room of Hesed "Polina".
The guests got acquainted with a part of Vitali and Maya Starkovs'
private library.
"Tell me what books you read, and I will tell you who
you are!" - said Eugenia Karyakina in the beginning of
the soiree. She told the guests, that the very moment she had entered
Starkovs' house, she fell in love with the hospitable hosts and their
library. When she saw there famous works of a writer and literary critic
Victor Shklovski, historian Nathan Eidelman, early editions
of Boris Pasternak, Michael Svetlov, Ilya Erenburg missing
in our library, she decided to show those treasures to the community.
And if Eugenia Borisovna has decided something, she will achieve
it without fail.
That evening the stand in Library Literature Club showed
visitors the books of Juri Gert, Ruth Tamarina, Lev Varshavski,
Samuel Marshak and other brilliant authors. The guests also had a
chance to acquaint themselves with a book "The Stories of Israeli
Writers", published in 1965 with Aaron Vergeli's foreword. It
is a rare book today. Lubov Koretskaya, Irina Krichevskaya told the
visitors about the books. Adolph Artsishevski shared his personal
recollections about Victor Shklovski and Lev Varshavski. The
guests interestedly listened to the stories about the people, whose names
are considered to be symbols of the epoch.
Eugenia Karyakina did not make a mistake when she decided
to devote the meeting to the "Exhibition of Books from Private Collections".
The guests approved of the idea and decided to help the organizers to
find the names worth attention.
Galina Korobkina
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Opening of the exhibition |
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Eugeniya Karyakina - the inspirer of the exhibition |
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Guests of the Jewish exhibition |
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The memory conjures up their names |
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