Nowe szczegóły z biografii Aleksandra Mardkowicza (1875–1944)

Abstract

Aleksander Mardkowicz (1875–1944) was a Karaim publicist, poet and publisher. He was active between the wars in Lutsk, in Volhynia region. The present article presents a number of hitherto unknown details from Mardkowicz’s private life as well as his professional career as a notary. They concern, among other things, his sources of income, his financial status and the places where he lived. The article also discusses the contacts that Mardkowicz had with regionalist groups in Volhynia as well as his possible collaboration with Jakub Hoffman (1896–1965) in editing The Bibliography of Wolyn published in 1931–1939 in “The Wolyn Yearbook”. The article also includes Polish titles of some his Karaim works, which differing from those commonly known to us, thus enriching out knowledge of Aleksander Mardkowicz’s literary achievements. Perhaps the author of these translations was none other than Mardkowicz himself. One hitherto unknown episode in his life was his employment in the city’s Homeland Museum during the Soviet occupation of Lutsk in 1940.