Tracking a Diaspora: Émigrés from Russia and Eastern Europe in the Repositories

ISBN-13: 9780789032317 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 214 str.

Anatol Shmelev

Opis

Discover collections unused by other scholars

Russian immigrants are one of the least studied of all the Slavic peoples because of meager collections development. Tracking a Diaspora: Emigres from Russia and Eastern Europe in the Repositories offers librarians and archivists an abundance of fresh information describing previously unrealized and little-used archival collections on Russian emigres. Some of these resources have been only recently acquired or opened to the public, providing rich new avenues of research for scholars and historians. This unique source provides access to greater breadth and depth of knowledge of Russian and Eastern European immigrants, their backgrounds, and their experiences coming to the United States.

Tracking a Diaspora is not only a helpful new resource to specialists but also serves as an introduction to archival research for amateur genealogists and scholars. Chapters comprehensively describe a single repository, thorough descriptions of a single collection, or offer thematic overviews, such as the theme of German emigration from Russia. The text includes detailed notes, references, figures and tables, and photographs.

Tracking a Diaspora describes largely unknown collections, including:

• a major group of archival collections that reveals more on these immigrants and their assimilation problems
  
• the holdings of the museum, libraries, and archives of Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary in upstate New York
  
• the archives of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
  
• the archives and Lembich library at The Tolstoy Foundation, Inc., New York
  
• the Archives of the Orthodox Church in America
  
• the manuscript collections at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP)
  
• materials on the immigrants who settled in the Midwest
  
• six archival collections acquired by the State Archive of the Russian Federation
  
• the Andre Savine collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  
• and more
  
  

Tracking a Diaspora is of great interest to librarians, archivists, specialists in Russian history, and specialists in ethnic and immigration history.

Spis treści

• Russians in the Repositories (Anatol Shmelev)
• Documenting Russian and Eastern European Immigrant Culture in American Manuscript Repositories: Private Philanthropy Archives (Jane Gorjevsky)
• Hidden Slavica: Collections of Slavic Religious, Ethnic, and Cultural Materials at Holy Trinity Seminary and Monastery (Vladimir A. von Tsurikov)
• The Tolstoy Foundation: Library and Archives (Robert Whittaker)
• Historical Resources of the Orthodox Church in America (Alexis Liberovsky)
• The Unpublished Diaries of Michael P. Riabouchinsky (Edward Kasinec and Yelena Kogan)
• Furthering the Balch Institute Legacy: Eastern European-Related Collections at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Matthew N. Lyons and Gwendolyn Kaminski)
• Documenting Non-Russian Immigrants from Russia (Norman Saul)
• Personal Papers of Russian Émigrés in the United States in the State Archive of the Russian Federation (Andrei Popov)
• New Discoveries in the André Savine Collection: Examining the Author-Generated Metadata Contained in the Bibliographic and Biographical Record of André Savine (Rita S. Van Duinen)
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Shmelev, Anatol