Zoya Yunoevna Semenduyeva (russian: Зоя Юноевна Семендуева, translit=; he, זויה סמנדואב; born 20 October 1929 – 9 April 2020) was a
Soviet
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and
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
i poet. She wrote in a language of the
Mountain Jew
Mountain Jews or Caucasus Jews also known as Juhuro, Juvuro, Juhuri, Juwuri, Juhurim, Kavkazi Jews or Gorsky Jews ( he, יהודי קווקז ''Yehudey Kavkaz'' or ''Yehudey he-Harim''; russian: Горские евреи, translit=Gorskie Yevrei ...
(
Juhuri
Judeo-Tat or Juhuri (''cuhuri'', , ) is the traditional language of the Mountain Jews of the eastern Caucasus Mountains, especially Azerbaijan and Dagestan, now mainly spoken in Israel.
The language is a dialect of Persian which belongs to the s ...
). She was a member of
Dagestan
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Writers' Union.
Biography
Zoya Semenduyeva was born Zoya Yunoevna Haimova to Naamo and Yuno Haimov in
Derbent
Derbent (russian: Дербе́нт; lez, Кьвевар, Цал; az, Дәрбәнд, italic=no, Dərbənd; av, Дербенд; fa, دربند), formerly romanized as Derbend, is a city in Dagestan, Russia, located on the Caspian Sea. It is ...
, in the
Republic of Dagestan ASSR,
USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
. She moved with her parents to
Makhachkala
Makhachkala ( rus, Махачкала, , məxətɕkɐˈla, links=yes),; av, Махӏачхъала, Maħaçqala; ce, ХӀинжа-ГӀала, Hinƶa-Ġala; az, Маһачгала, Mahaçqala; nog, Махачкала; lbe, Махачкъала; ...
, where she studied accounting.
[Памяти поэтессы Зои Семендуевой]
STMEGI 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.
.
: "Ватан Советиму") - "Soviet Motherland", published in the Mountain Jewish language. The first collection (Juhuri: "Войгей дуьл") - "Command of the heart" was published in 1967, and before her repatriation to Israel, Zoya Semenduev published 10 collections of poetry. She wrote about her people, about love, friendship, about war and peace. The poetesses' works have been published in Moscow literary magazines. Two of her collections were released in Russian - "The Winner People" and "Song, Dream and Love."
The composers
wrote songs to the verses of Zoya Semenduyeva.
. In Israel, her poems were published in the collection (
: "Говлеи") - "Deliverance", and in 1998 she released a new collection of poems "At the Obelisk", which included works in Juhuri and translations of her poems into Russian. In 2007, the book (Juhuri: "Духдер эн дуь бебе") "Daughter of two fathers"