Pub Date : 2022-02-24DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2021.1985699
Edward Kasinec
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Pub Date : 2021-12-21DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2021.1985709
Lyubov Ginzburg
ABSTRACT This article sheds light upon an important though widely forgotten episode of Russian American history, illustrating the efforts of prominent Russian statesman, Count Sergei Witte, to educate Americans about his native land. While touring Columbia University in the summer of 1905 and discovering the absence of documents and works relating to Russian economic and social conditions in its library, Witte ordered various Russian governmental agencies to arrange for collections of their most important publications to be shipped there. Matching previously unpublished archival materials in the Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA) with corresponding records at Columbia made it possible to illuminate the generous imperial gift of thousands of volumes of official publications, which became the foundation of the Slavic section of Columbia University Library. The article also touches upon the role of prominent members of the Columbia University Board of Trustees in welcoming Count Witte and expands on Warburg’s donation that allowed Columbia to subscribe to many important papers and purchase books and pamphlets relating to the first Russian revolution.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-03DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2021.1985707
Frank Sciacca
ABSTRACT Over the course of the last several years I have made significant donations of Ukrainian and Russian books, manuscripts, art works, and ephemera to a number of institutions, most notably to the Bakhmeteff Archive/Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University, the Museum of Russian Icons (Clinton, MA), the Museum of Russian History (Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY), and Special Collections at Hamilton College (Clinton, NY). The materials gifted to Columbia have been described as “probably one of the more significant collections of early imprints to come available in recent memory.” This memoir-essay explores my early and mature stages of collecting and the growing impact of study, teaching, and research at Columbia, in the Soviet Union, and at Hamilton College on subsequent focused acquisition of items, in particular relating to Pochayiv Lavra and Ukrainian rushnyky (ritual textiles).
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Pub Date : 2021-12-02DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2021.1985714
Hee-Gwone Yoo
ABSTRACT Many collections held by Columbia’s Rare Books and Manuscript Library contain precious and little explored visual documentation on the turbulent history of late 19th and 20th century Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe. These photographs deal with topics ranging from Russian culture in emigration, the late Romanov dynasty and the Russian imperial military to American travelers and philanthropy in revolutionary Russia and Eastern Europe. The Columbia collections in great part complement those held at the Hoover Institution Archives and the nearby NYPL Slavic collections.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-26DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2021.1985706
Robert I. Davis
ABSTRACT The Slavic, Eurasian & East European Collections of the Columbia University Libraries are among the largest in North America and have served a diverse faculty and student body for more than a century. Yet the developmental history of this resource is as yet little-known. This essay provides a series of brief historical vignettes of collections, collectors, and influencers that have shaped the collection. We bring developments down to the present day, including the decade-old partnership with the venerable Cornell University Library Slavic collection, with origins dating back to 1884.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-26DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2021.1985717
M. Deyrup
ABSTRACT Michael Idvorsky Pupin (1858–1935) is best known for his pioneering work in electrical engineering and for his contributions to the fields of telephony and telegraphy. Less well known is his career as an academic and scientist at Columbia. This article centers on the history of the bronze bust of Pupin created by the Croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrovic (1883–1962) as a personal gift to the scientist, and which now stands in the hallway of Pupin Hall, Pupin’s renamed laboratory, at Columbia. Pupin, who had been born in poverty in what is now Serbia, was actively involved in the Pan Slavic movement to create Yugoslavia after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I (WWI) as was Mestrovic.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-08DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2021.1985708
D. Chroust
ABSTRACT As the Soviet Union and its challenge to the West recede, we still have much to learn about the Slavic book trade and about the rise of the great Russian, East European, and Eurasian area studies collections in academic libraries in 20th-century North America. Who were the book dealers behind these collections, which still inform so much discovery and knowledge-making today? What can we learn about these personalities and their work? One such book dealer was George Sabo (1896–1983), who followed two brothers to Pittsburgh in 1913 but made his career in New York after 1920, first with a “steamship agency” for fellow immigrants. As a Carpatho-Rusyn from the Kingdom of Hungary, Sabo took his outlook and cultural capital from an ethno-religious group at the very center of the Slavic world and in remarkable symbiosis with nearly all its peoples, languages, identities, and states. Sabo’s native village (Orechová) became part of Czechoslovakia after World War I and his wife’s (Haidosh) part of the Soviet Union after World War II. Sabo’s Carpatho-Rusyn-ness equipped him well as a Slavic-American book dealer and enterprising New Yorker, and we can illuminate much of his life, family, network, surroundings, and career in the city and beyond from many kinds of sources.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-07DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2021.1985712
Tanya Chebotarev
ABSTRACT For almost seventy years the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture at Columbia University has been considered an outstanding resource for the study of Russian émigré life. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Bakhmeteff Archive became a critical tool in the process of rewriting twentieth-century Russian history. Unfortunately, in search of “sensational” archival “discoveries,” mythology surrounding the history of the archive blossomed. This article will highlight the most important milestones of the Bakhmeteff Archive and will hopefully inspire scholarly research based on facts rather than mythology quest.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-06DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2021.1985713
Bogdan Horbal
ABSTRACT The New York Public Library was created in 1895, the same year Columbia’s Low Library opened its doors on the new campus in Morningside Heights. From that time on, the two institutions engaged in formal and informal cooperation in collection development and have been viewed as either complementary resources or even one resource. There were numerous individuals who, while being affiliated with one of these institutions, were also readers at the other institution or even impacted the other institution through their activities. The present essay highlights foundational interactions between the NYPL and Columbia University that had an enduring impact in the field of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-06DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2021.1985715
Robert I. Davis
ABSTRACT The role of Professor Edward Allworth in building the academic study of the Soviet Union’s many ethnic minorities in general, and of the peoples and cultures of Central Asia in particular, is well-known. Perhaps less well-known is his tireless work, along with his wife Janet, in building library collections capable of supporting advanced research. This essay looks at aspects of this important activity and its impact on the holdings of the Columbia University Libraries.
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