Hasidism in The Kingdom of Poland, 1815-1867: Historical Sources In The Polish State Archives. By Marchin Wodzinski. Tel Aviv: Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Austeria Publishing House, 2011. Pp. 600; plates. N.p.

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 252-252
Author(s):  
Shaul Stampfer
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Archives

scholarly journals «…YOUR OPINION IS INTERESTING…, AS THE OPINION OF A TRUE SCIENTIST»: EPISTOLS B. S. BODNARSKY TO S. I.-Y. BOROVOY

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-57
Author(s):  
V. V. Levchenko
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Personal Connections ◽  
Special Value ◽  
History Of ◽  
Universal Decimal Classification ◽  
State Archives

The article presents the part of the epistolary heritage of the outstanding Russian and Soviet bibliographer, ideologist of the introduction of the universal decimal classification in the USSR – B. S. Bodnarsky. The article presents for the first time his little-known historical sources. There are twenty epistles to the Soviet historian S. I.-Ya. Borovoy. Generally, the correspondence of these bibliographers is of undeniable interest in the history of Soviet bibliography in particular, and in the history of historical science. The represented epistles are stored in the State Archives of Odessa region, in the fund of personal origin of professor S. I.-Ya. Borovoy. The published ego-documents cover the period from 1952 to 1968 and are a valuable source on the history of socio-cultural life of the early second half of the twentieth century. The provided materials reflect separate fragments of professional activity of two scientists and their personal and scientific communicative communications with some representatives of the Soviet scientific community. The epistles allow us to reproduce some details of the history of Soviet historical science, certain episodes of the biographies of a number of Soviet scholars of those years against the background of socio-cultural events. The particular interest is the epistles of B. S. Bodnarsky in the context of the study of his interpersonal relationships with colleagues and contain facts for a detailed description of the academic community of the time. The epistles also contain a description of human relations, emotional feelings about certain moments that took place in the scientific environment, a description of the atmosphere of everyday life. The special value of the presented primary sources is that their content demonstrates the presence of attentive and friendly attitude between scientists. To a large extent, the personal connections of S. I.-Ya. Borovoy and an influential scholar in academic circles helped his younger colleague to overcome some difficulties and gain recognition as a scholar in the field of bibliography at the All-Union level. The publication of the letters is accompanied by quite complete comments on their content and introduces a valuable historical source into scientific circulation.

scholarly journals Catch a Sight of "Church": Amateur Photographs as a Window into the Life of Evangelical Christians of the USSR

TECHNOLOGOS ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 66-75
Author(s):  
Glushaev Aleksey
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
The State ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Evangelical Christians ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Perm Krai ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Confessional Literature

It is known that the documents from the State archives concerning the history of religious life in the USSR had the primary importance and they are remained the same. However, a significant part of historical documents are kept by believers. Film and photo documents are of particular interest. The “visual turn” in the historiography of the beginning of 2000s opened up new opportunities for studying film sources and photographic documents. The attention of historians has focused on the symbolic and linguistic systems of transmission of film and photographic messages, on the visualization of ethnic, confessional identities or cultural characteristics of various population groups. Thus, turn to the film and photo documents helps better understanding the collective self-perception of Soviet believers and finding the ways to present themselves to the surrounding world. The purpose of this study is to study the informational possibilities of photographic documents on the history of Evangelical Christian-Baptists in the USSR in the 1970s. The main historical sources in the study are two photographs from the mid-1970s. They are kept in the church of evangelistic Christians-Baptists in the city of Perm. Archival documents of the State Archives of Perm Krai and confessional literature helped to reconstruct the historical context of photography. Conversations with a presbyter of the Perm community of Evangelical Christians-Baptists helped in attribution of photographs. The author believes that these photographs formed the iconographic image of the ECB church in the space of the Soviet city. The active use of these photographs in the post-Soviet period testifies the high “symbolic efficiency” (P. Bourdieu) of photographic communication from the past.

scholarly journals Documents of the Austrian State Archives about the History of Habsburg Diplomatic Relations with Russia: Research Potential

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolai Baranov ◽  
Elena Manasyan
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Main Type ◽  
Diplomatic Relations ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Comprehensive Study

This article considers the formation of archival funds about Austro-Russian relations in the late seventeenth century in one of the four departments of the Austrian State Archives (the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv of the Habsburgs). The analysis demonstrates that the archival funds formed alongside the development of the archive’s structure. The sources referred to include documents dedicated to the foreign policy contacts of the Habsburg dynasty with Russia in the late seventeenth century. The authors focus on the period when, because of the Ottoman threat, interactions between Vienna and Moscow intensified, which manifested itself in the active exchange of embassies and correspondence. The authors reveal the main type of structure of the archival funds mentioned. The collection contains several types of historical sources, among which the authors single out official letters (der Brief), instructions (die Instruktion) for Viennese representatives sent to Moscow, authentications (die Beglaubigung), decrees, minutes of audiences, envoy accounts (der Gesandtenbericht), and reports (der Bericht) of the Viennese envoys in Moscow. The characterisation of archival documents by fund and type demonstrates the deep research potential of the sources. The authors reveal that despite the long development and numerous military conflicts that influenced the preservation of the funds, the Haus-, Hof-, und Staatsarchiv are an institution of supranational importance, accumulating the historical heritage of Austria and Russia. The archive department contains a large array of documents shedding light on various aspects of diplomatic relations between Vienna and Moscow in the second half of the seventeenth century, making possible a comprehensive study of Habsburg contacts with Russia. This makes it necessary to consider introducing the source base into scholarly circulation.

scholarly journals Polar Agriculture in the Yamal-Nenets National District during the Great Patriotic War

2020 ◽  
pp. 335-352
Author(s):  
T. V. Kozelchuk ◽  
O. V. Ryabkova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Collective Farms

The article is devoted to the history of the development of polar agriculture in the Yamal-Nenets National District during the Great Patriotic War. The questions of the dynamics of expansion of the sown areas of open and protected ground in the specified territory are considered. Based on the analysis of documents preserved in the state archives of the Russian Federation, detailed information on the development and use of sown areas is provided, in particular, the volumes of cultivated and manufactured products are indicated. Attention is paid to the development of collective and individual truck farming in the Yamal-Nenets okrug during the war years. The question is raised about the role of collective farms in the development of polar agriculture in the okrug, in particular, data on collective farms which areas were engaged in crop production are provided. The novelty of the study is seen in the attraction of new historical sources, allowing to enter into scientific circulation data that help to systematize and detail information on the development of polar agriculture in the Yamal-Nenets okrug during the Great Patriotic War. The relevance of the study is due to the scientific and social significance of the works devoted to the development of the Arctic territories of the Russian Federation in significant periods of Russian history. The authors conclude that during the war years in the district there was a leap in the development of the industry.

scholarly journals Documented History of the “World Literature” Publishing House: Financial Aspect (1918–1921)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 374-393
Author(s):  
Marina A. Arias-Vikhil ◽  
Vadim V. Polonsky
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
The State ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Reliable Source ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Maxim Gorky ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Financial Aspect

The aim of our study is to analyze the financial aspect of the history of the publishing house “World Literature” bearing on the material of the state archives (Maxim Gorky Archive of the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences in particular). The archival materials demonstrate that the main factor in gaining access to finance in the early years of the RSFSR were personal relations that had become the only reliable source of income in the destabilized post-October Revolution economy. The Bolshevik leaders who came to power mainly counted on their pre-revolutionary allies and relatives, a motley crowd in the ideological sense. There was a sharp competition for property and finance between the newly created People’s Commissars whose leaders were Lenin’s proxies. The decisions made by the Council of People’s Commissars, by the Politburo, and by various party commissions were not implemented, or even openly sabotaged in many cases when it came to financing certain sectors of the economy or culture. The competition between the People’s Commissariat for Education in Moscow (Lunacharsky) and the State Publishing House (controlled by Zinoviev and his entourage) was the determining factor in the history of financing the publishing house “World Literature.”

scholarly journals N.A. Rubakin, the Great Man of Book, in Letters and Memoirs

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-172
Author(s):  
T. Y. Briskman
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
New Information ◽  
Russian State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
State Library

The article presents an overview of the published and unpublished correspondence and memoirs of Nikolay Alexandrovich Rubakin, the outstanding Russian bibliologist, library scientist, bibliographer, educator and writer, whose versatile work and activities occupy the prominent place in the history of Russian culture and spiritual life of Russia in the second half of the 19th — the first half of the 20th century. The relevance of the appeal to the personality and creative heritage of N.A. Rubakin is defined by his role in studying the problems of reading and reader. In the context of the development of modern information society, the reading is of great importance in the development of spiritual and creative abilities of individual. There is highlighted the role of N.A. Rubakin in the history of the Russian State Library. The letters and memoirs are considered as documentary and historical sources containing unique biographical information. In the overview there is given their substantial characteristics and special purpose. Publications presented in the Biobibliographic Index “Nikolay Rubakin (1862—1946)”, published in the “Pashkov Dom” Publishing House of the Russian State Library in 2012, as well as the materials revealed after publication of the Index, are combined into a single array. The article gives many excerpts from the letters and memoirs, illustrating various events and facts from the life of N.A. Rubakin, which were not represented in the Indexes. There are determined the groups of his correspondents; and identified different archives holding his correspondence. Memoirs type materials, their connection with publication of the correspondence are characterized. There is revealed their potential for further research and detailed description with the purpose of introducing into the scientific circulation of new information about the life and activities of N.A. Rubakin..

scholarly journals “JEWISH ISSUE” IN THE DEEDS OF ANTON IVANOVICH DENIKIN DURING THE FRATRICIDAL SLAUGHTER (1917–1920)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 132-147
Author(s):  
Georgy M. Ippolitov
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Critical Aspect ◽  
Military Leader ◽  
Documentary Fiction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Scientific Periodicals

The author of this article researches the historical personality of Lieutenant-General Anton Ivanovich Denikin (1872–1947) – a unique, tragic figure in the history of the Russian power, a military leader, a politician, a writer, – during thirty years of his scientific and pedagogical activity. The scientific results obtained by the researcher are reflected in his doctoral dissertation, four monographs. The biography of the combat Russian general was written, which was published twice (in 2000 and 2006) by the publishing house “Young Guard” in the series “Life of wonderful people”. Documentary-fiction narration about the personality and the fate of Anton Ivanovich has been performed, a large number of articles in scientific periodicals and reports in the materials of various scientific forums were published. An anthology about him is also published in the format “pro et contra”. It is clear that such a vast and diverse body of work could not but reflect the topic that is indicated in the title of this article. Was Lieutenant General Anton Ivanovich Denikin an anti-Semite? If he was, how was it reflected in his deeds? The search for answers to such burning questions, questions that are exclusively debatable and sometimes polemical in nature (both in domestic and foreign historiography), was carried out through the analysis of a number of business documents and materials deposited both in federal state archives and published in various collections and separately. It was necessary to study a number of historiographical sources created by researchers in the Soviet, post-Soviet, modern periods of domestic historical science development, as well as abroad. At the same time, the author of this article tried to ensure a careful and correct attitude to the historiographic developments of the predecessors. However, such a research algorithm does not exclude a critical aspect (do not confuse with ill-natured criticism!). Naturally, the article doesn’t have any claim to represent a complete coverage of the problem. It has some elements of sketchiness and appeals to the author’s early works, which comprehensively research the historical personality of Anton Ivanovich Denikin, including the problem of the «Jewish issue”.

EPITAFIES OF THE RELATIVES OF HADJI IBRAHIM AL-URADI AS A SOURCE ON THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE SCIENTIST AND ON THE HISTORY OF GIDATL

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
Sh M Khapizov ◽  
M G Shekhmagomedov
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Medieval History ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Arabic Script ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Culture ◽  
The Look ◽  
Cultural Monuments ◽  
Written Sources

The article is devoted to the study of inscriptions on the gravestones of Haji Ibrahim al-Uradi, his father, brothers and other relatives. The information revealed during the translation of these inscriptions allows one to date important events from the history of Highland Dagestan. Also we can reconsider the look at some important events from the past of Hidatl. Epitaphs are interesting in and of themselves, as historical and cultural monuments that needed to be studied and attributed. Research of epigraphy data monuments clarifies periodization medieval epitaphs mountain Dagestan using record templates and features of the Arabic script. We see the study of medieval epigraphy as one of the important tasks of contemporary Caucasian studies facing Dagestani researchers. Given the relatively weak illumination of the picture of events of that period in historical sources, comprehensive work in this direction can fill gaps in our knowledge of the medieval history of Dagestan. In addition, these epigraphs are of great importance for researchers of onomastics, linguistics, the history of culture and religion of Dagestan. The authors managed to clarify the date of death of Ibrahim-Haji al-Uradi, as well as his two sons. These data, the attraction of written sources and legends allowed the reconstruction of the events of the second half of the 18th century. For example, because of the epidemic of plague and the death of most of the population of Hidatl, this society noticeably weakened and could no longer maintain its influence on Akhvakh. The attraction of memorable records allowed us to specify the dates of the Ibrahim-Haji pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, as well as the route through which he traveled to these cities.

Voices and Visions: Mind, Body and Affect in Medieval Writing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinne Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Disease Treatment ◽  
History Of Disease ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Texts

A properly critical medical humanities is also a historically grounded medical humanities. Such historical grounding requires taking a long cultural perspective, going beyond traditional medical history – typically the history of disease, treatment and practice – to trace the origins and development of the ideas that underpin medicine in its broadest sense – ideas concerning the most fundamental aspects of human existence: health and illness, body and mind, gender and family, care and community. Historical sources can only go so far in illuminating such topics; we must also look to other cultural texts, and in particular literary texts, which, through their imaginative worlds, provide crucial insights into cultural and intellectual attitudes, experience and creativity. Reading from a critical medical humanities perspective requires not only cultural archaeology across a range of discourses, but also putting past and present into conversation, to discover continuities and contrasts with later perspectives. Medical humanities research is illuminated by cultural and literary studies, and also brings to them new ways of seeing; the relation is dynamic. This chapter explores the ways mind, body and affect are constructed and intersect in medieval thought and literature, with a particular focus on how voice-hearing and visionary experience are portrayed and understood.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document