Name: Haji
Father Name: Jundi
Year Of Birth:1908
Year Of Death: 1990
Place Of Birth: Kars, North Kurdistan
Place Of Death: Armenia
Life
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Haji Jundi -
He was born in 1908 in the village of Emençayîrê in the city of Kars.
At an early childhood age, his father, mother, and two of his sisters died, so he remained a homeless orphan.
At the beginning of World War I, because of the war between the Russian and Ottoman armies, he immigrated to Armenia
In 1919, when the Ottoman army withdrew from Kars, it returned from Armenia to Kars.
Because he was young and an orphan, he worked for his uncle in the profession of shepherding, and at that stage, because of the remnants of the war, a shell exploded in his hands, which cut off his left hand, as he worked with one hand.
In 1919, an orphanage center was opened by an American Institution in Kars, so he resorted to the orphanage to live in the orphanage for 10 years.
– During the entry of the Turkish army into the city of Kars, the owner of the Orphanage Institution sent orphans to Armenia, including the Child Haji Jundi.
The child - Haji Jundi, 10 years old, stayed in the orphanage, where he forgot the Kurdish language
He studied the primary stage in the orphanage
In 1929 he completed his high school studies and learned the Kurdish language (the language of his fathers and grandfathers) by going to the Kurdish villages in Armenia
In 1930 he entered the Faculty of Philology at the University of Yerevan.
In 1932, he printed a set of educational books in the Kurdish language, consisting of 8 books
In 1930 he became a teacher of the Kurdish language at the educational headquarters in Yerevan
He has 18 books on the Kurdish language
On March 31, 1930, when a newspaper - Raya Taza - was published in the Kurdish language and with the Latin letter, he became the head of the cultural and literary department in the newspaper and had a major role in issuing the newspaper
From 1930 to 1937, he was in charge of Kurdish broadcasting at Radio Yerevan
In 1931, the Ministry of Education in Armenia decided to collect Kurdish folklore, and Haji Jundi worked hard in collecting Kurdish folklore.
In 1934, a conference was held on the Kurdish language in Yerevan, and Haji Jundi was the supervisor of the conference
In 1936, his book “Kurmanji Folklore” was printed.
In 1934, the General Congress of Soviet Writers was held in Moscow, and Haji Jundi attended it
– On March 17, 1938, he was arrested by the Russian Intelligence on charges of hostile relations (and he was placed in secret prisons). The Dashnak party - and the Dashnak party - are anti-Soviet))
On March 17, 1939, he was released from the Soviet secret prisons
In 1940 he obtained his doctorate for his thesis Kerr û Kulikê Silêmanê Silîvî
In 1958, the Kurdish section was inaugurated in the Armenian Scientific Academy, and Khoo became the head of the Kurdish section in the academy.
In 1958 he attended the Asia and Africa Writers Conference held in Tashkent
In 1960, he attended the 25th International Orientalists Conference held in Moscow
In 1968, the Department of Kurdish Literature was opened at the University of Yerevan, and Haji Jundi became a professor of Kurdish literature at the university.
In 1964 he was awarded an honorary doctorate
He was awarded the People’s Friendship Medal
In 1986, he won the Ria Taza newspaper award for translating from Armenian into Kurdish
In 1976, his novel Hewar was printed, and his novel was translated into Russian and Armenian immediately after its publication.
He wrote the play, as he has two plays in Kurdish
He was twice elected as a member of the municipality of Yerevan, in 1934 and 1975.
In 1982 he became a member of the Kurdish Institute in Paris
In 1973 he became a member of the Kurdish Scientific Academy in Iraq
He died on May 1, 1990 in Yerevan, leaving behind 60 books, 6 daughters, and a great cultural and struggle legacy.
the source:translated from Arabic To English by Vazhan Kshto . [1]