Zoya Semenduyeva
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Born | Derbent, Dagestan ASSR, USSR | 20 October 1929
Died | 9 April 2020 Netanya, Israel | (aged 90)
Occupation | Poet |
Genre | Poetry |
Zoya Yunoevna Semenduyeva (Russian: Зоя Юноевна Семендуева; Hebrew: זויה סמנדואב; 20 October 1929 – 9 April 2020) was a Soviet and Israeli poet.[1][2] She wrote in a language of the Mountain Jew (Juhuri). She was a member of Dagestan Writers' Union.
Biography
Zoya Semenduyeva was born Zoya Yunoevna Haimova to Naamo and Yuno Haimov in Derbent, in the Republic of Dagestan ASSR, USSR. She moved with her parents to Makhachkala, where she studied accounting.[3] In 1950 in Makhachkala, she started to work for the company "Dagknigoizdat", where she met her husband-to-be, Akhom (Alexey) Eudovich Semenduyev, and who was the head of the Edition Department.[4]
Career
Zoya Semenduyeva was constantly in a creative environment, she once decided to try her hand at poetry. Her first experiments were approved by
The first publication took place in 1960
The composers Khizgil Khanukaev and Yuno Avshalumov wrote songs to the verses of Zoya Semenduyeva.[5]
Aliyah
In December 1992, Zoya Semenduyeva
Since 2008 and until her death, Zoya Semenduyeva and her husband participated in the project of translating the
Family
She had two sons, Igor and Semyon, and three daughters, Evgeniya, Tamara, and Svetlana, who gave her nine grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.[3] She also had a brother named Chaim. After immigrating to Israel, Zoya Semenduyeva lived in Kfar Yona. Her daughters Tamara and Svetlana also write poetry, and her grandson Daniel Semenduyev translates poetry from Hebrew into Russian and from Russian into Hebrew.[3]
Death
Semenduyeva died on 9 April 2020, in Netanya, Israel.[3]
Works
- Ватан Советиму (1960)
- Войгей дуьл (1967)
- Мозоллуье духдер догььи (1971)
- Комуне (1974)
- Э сер билогь (1979)
- Учитель (1981)
- Бовор сохденуьм (1984)
- Астарай ме (1988)
- Околица (1992)
- У обелиска. Бовор сохденуьм (1998)
- Духдер дуь бебе (2007)
- Мать солдата (2012)