Archival Holdings Research Articles

Identity Discourses and the Sino-Soviet Split

Identity Discourses and the Sino-Soviet Split Daniel Leese Yee-Wah Foo, Chiang Kaishek’s Last Ambassador to Moscow: The Wartime Diaries of Fu Bingchang. 256 pp. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. ISBN-13 978-0230584778. $115.00. Ted Hopf, Reconstructing the Cold War: The Early Years, 1945–1958. 320 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN-13 978-0199379767. $27.95. Austin Jersild, The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History. 352 pp., illus. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN-13 978-1469611594. $36.95. The past decade has witnessed a flood of new publications on the turbulent relationship between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. This new wave of scholarship has increasingly been based on Chinese archival holdings as well.1 Although the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Central Archives near Beijing have remained off limits to both foreign and independent domestic researchers, at least the first half of the Hu–Wen administration (2003–12) witnessed unprecedented access to archives at the provincial, municipal, and county levels. The comparatively open archives during these years included the Archive of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, which allowed for greater access to its records, especially from the [End Page 988] 1950s. The insights gained from these holdings have considerably enriched our knowledge about Chinese foreign policy with regard to both high-level domestic decision making and international relations.2 Restrictions have tightened in recent years, however, and many previously accessible documents have been reclassified or, under the pretext of digitization, withdrawn from the catalogues. The three books under review here all in one way or another have profited from the short-term liberalization of Chinese archival practices. Two of them heavily rely on Chinese primary sources, and this review is therefore written from the perspective of a historian of China, not the Soviet Union. The books share a focus on the early or even pre-Cold War period of Chinese–Soviet relations between the 1940s and the mid-1960s. In Chiang Kaishek’s Last Ambassador to Moscow, Yee-Wah Foo analyzes Guomindang diplomacy during World War II. More specifically, she traces the life and times of her grandfather Fu Bingchang. The special relationship between author and research subject is not adequately discussed, and the book over long stretches reads like an attempt to cast Fu’s historical role in a brighter light. The volume is divided into six parts, starts with a family history prior to 1943, and continues with a cultural history of embassy life and organization in the 1940s. On Fu’s farewell visit prior to embarking for Moscow, Chiang Kai-shek personally stated Fu Bingchang’s mission to project an image of China as a great power; to minimize Soviet interference, especially in Xinjiang and Manchuria; and to make the Soviet Union join the war against Japan. Parts 3–5 discuss the difficulties of achieving these tasks by looking at Fu’s role in the October 1943 Moscow declaration, which granted China great-power status, the removal of Soviet influence in Xinjiang, and the negotiations of the Far Eastern Agreement at Yalta in 1945. All these questions have been extensively dealt with in previous diplomatic histories—for example, by Garver and Heinzig—and despite the author’s effort at ascribing a greater role to Fu Bingchang, the utter powerlessness of the Chinese delegate and his country’s complete dependence on U.S. backing cannot be dispelled.3 There are a few interesting new details on the situation in Xinjiang and on the second round of discussions regarding the 1945 Sino-Soviet treaty, which merit the specialist’s interest. [End Page 989] The book mostly offers details on the personal relations between Fu and other major ambassadors, as well as relations with the Soviet hosts, which were characterized by mistrust, spying activities among lower-level staff (not to mention infiltration by Chinese Communist Party [CCP] spies, most notably Fu’s mistress and press attaché Hu Jibang). A unique source explored in the book is the war period diary of Fu Bingchang, which remains in the family’s possession and consists of about 220 handwritten pages. It is difficult...

Is the public principle a new paradigm of archival science?

Contemporary archival theory is a coherent system of principles subordinated to the superior principle, or the paradigm, which is the public principle of archives. Nowadays the public principle of archives means that every person can access every archive and record in the world. The understanding of records is guaranteed by the principle of provenance, while their keeping a fond intact guarantees transparency and stability of the distribution. The other principles govern the location of archival holdings: the principle of territoriality (also as: the principle of territorial provenance or pertinence); the principle of respecting historical holdings; and the principle of common heritage; as well as the concept of functional pertinence. Not without significance for the speed of access is the existence of several methods of accessing collections; and so we have, besides provenance, subject pertinence, which is not a system of arranging archival records but of ordering the description of the information.

O archiwach społecznych i ich znaczeniu dla polskiego dziedzictwa narodowego oraz tożsamości lokalnej

Community archives display notable activity, especially during last years. Due to that they have become a significant element of the system of archives in Poland. But there are still a number of basic problems, not only theoretical, concerning their activity, that must be set down: their formal status (also: their holdings status), their place in system of Polish archives (in the broad sense), and shape of their relations to other archives (especially state ones). Moreover, corresponding to problems mentioned above, their fundamental meaning to national heritage and local identity must be looked into. Taking a thesis of Jerzy Skowronek, that the archival national heritage are all archival materials produced by a particular nation and state, regardless of place of keeping, the holdings of community archives must be seen as that. But not always they are simply associated with phenomena, processes or events that are crucial from the point of view of a nation as a whole. Whereas these holdings, according to a scope of their collection, are direct and very accurate reflection of local history. This makes community archives main creators and protectors of local identity, especially with common practice among community archives, that consists in dragging local communities into cooperation in making the history and, in general, into cooperating with them. Their mission, in both of these spheres, is carried out in a condition of a dichotomy. On the one hand there is intentional using of assets: creativity, enthusiasm and a special ability to reach to sources that are unavailable to other potential rivals. On the other hand, a full success is impediment due to various limitations, especially often observed financial fragility and lack of certainty of existence in a longer time perspective. Whereas state archives, having no problems in that area, due to some formal and organizational reasons cannot impact the non-state branch of the national archival holdings effectively. That, and a number of other reasons should induce both types of archives to strengthen contacts between them and to take up or intensify collaboration in various fields. It will result in increasing efficiency of archival activity performed by them separately.

Teoretyczna myśl archiwalna Kazimierza Konarskiego (1886–1972)

Kazimierz Konarski was most of all a methodologist. But his wide experience in archives enabled him to draw theoretical conclusions and generalizations. The archival work of Konarski was focused mostly on arrangement and description of archival holdings and on organizing it, which gave notable methodological effects in the form of systematics of archival aids and methodological guidelines for arrangement and description of various types of documents. For Konarski arrangement and description of archival holdings was always a central problem in archives’ activity. To a small degree his experience involved problems of disposal and providing access to archival materials. But performing leading functions in archives enabled him to get to know the organization of archives and mechanisms of functioning of the archival service. In the thought of Konarski, the scope of archival science was outlined by activities of archives. Problems of arrangement and inventorying of archival holdings occupied a crucial role. It was a consequence of the central position of a fonds, which was, for Konarski, the subject of archival science. Konarski understood the scope of archival science very widely. In this scope he included all the activities performed by archivists, even issues of building up and running an archival library or the atmosphere of an archive. The subject of archival science itself did not change. What did change was emphasis placed by Konarski on particular problems. First, the crucial issue for him was the principle of provenance, then he focused on the understanding of an archival fonds. Finally Konarski recognized that the cornerstone to archival studies is the process of crystallizing the term “record” (“akt”). This approach is clearly an effect of being influenced by some fashion. What can be seen is, at first, relishing the principle of provenance, and then turning towards diplomatics, certainly under the influence of Meissner. Konarski consequently held his view on the necessity of creating the Polish version of archivistics. He thought that archival science is not a universal discipline and that it has to have a local character, what he probably achieved. He made a key contribution to creating the specific, Polish archival science, focused on issues of records and office, demanding a detailed archival description, at least in that different from the world archivistics. Kazimierz Konarski has become an inherent part of history of Polish archival science. But could it be a surprise, if he is the creator, the first and maybe the main promoter of the Polish version of archivistics?

Informatory o zasobie archiwalnym. Próba analizy przydatności informacyjnej

In 2000, the General Director of State Archives in Poland issued recommendations how to publish directories to archival holdings. The purpose of these recommendations was to set in Polish archival information system this finding aid (operating between guide to archival holdings and list of funds), to standardize its construction and to increase the importance of this aid in the searching of archival materials. This aim was achieved partially. On the basis of recommendations it is possible to define the term directory to archival holdings , but the standardization of its construction is impossible. Recommendations are susceptible of various interpretations and too general. Moreover, particular state archives have tried to change the construction of directories, but now not all modifications are useful from the archives users’ point of view. Editors of directories to archival holdings seldom used typographical tools which could have enhanced the informative usefulness of these finding aids.

Keeping Time: An Introduction to Archival Best Practices for Music Librarians by Lisa Hooper and Donald C. Force (review)

Reviewed by: Keeping Time: An Introduction to Archival Best Practices for Music Librarians by Lisa Hooper and Donald C. Force Creighton Barrett Keeping Time: An Introduction to Archival Best Practices for Music Librarians. By Lisa Hooper and Donald C. Force. (Music Library Association Basic Manual Series, no. 9.) Middleton, WI: Music Library Association and A-R Editions, 2014. [xiv, 143 p. ISBN 9780895797865. $50.] Illustrations, appendices, glossary, bibliographic references, suggested readings, index. Librarians and archivists share many common values and responsibilities, but each profession is charged with managing collections with divergent requirements for acquisition, preservation, description, and use. And yet, library and archival collections are frequently unified by institutional missions, collection mandates, administrative structures, and physical spaces. This is particularly true when it comes to music libraries, which frequently include archival materials such as manuscript scores, noncommercial sound and video recordings, photographs, and similar. In Keeping Time, authors Lisa Hooper and Donald C. Force address the colliding worlds of music libraries and archives with a comprehensive introduction to archival best practices for music librarians. The manual is the ninth volume of the Music Library Association’s Basic Manual Series, and the first full-length monograph for both authors. Hooper is the Head of the Music and Media Center in the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane University, and Force is Assistant Professor in the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Force was involved with the International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems Project (InterPARES) at the University of British Columbia and has written about records management and electronic records, while Hooper has written on various topics in music archives and libraries and is a regular presenter at regional and national meetings of the Music Library Association (MLA). Keeping Time is a modern and accessible introduction to archival best practices that uses practical examples and hypothetical situations to tailor the content for music librarians. The manual adopts the structure of many archives manuals and textbooks, with the content organized according to what archivists call the “core archival functions.” After a historical introduction, the chapters flow through the steps an archivist would take with a new collection: acquisition and accessioning, arrangement, description, and preservation. The manual lacks a chapter on access services, typically considered a core archival function, but reading room best practices are addressed in the chapter on preservation. Chapters on digitization and funding expand on the core archival functions and should be of wider interest to music librarians. The manual is rounded out with a series of appendices, a glossary, a list of suggested readings, and a five-page index. Hooper and Force begin with a very brief history of archives that serves its purpose well. The basic tenets of archives are easier to comprehend when they are given some historical context, and chapter one puts the core principles of archival science squarely in the context of the French Revolution. The chapter’s brevity, however, results in the exclusion of some important details. The brief section on postmodernism in archives, for example, only makes vague references to Derrida’s Archive Fever (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996) and simply states that “archivists have become aware that their duties of appraisal, [End Page 674] arrangement, description, and preservation play an intrinsic role in determining whose history is remembered and how it is written” (p. 6). The second chapter focuses on acquisitions and accessioning, core functions upon which all other archival activities are based. At the beginning of the chapter, Hooper and Force comment that these functions “mark the beginning of a collection’s journey from an unprocessed collection in a private home or business to a fully processed, preserved, described, and accessible collection in a music library’s archival holdings or special collections” (p. 7). Highlights from this chapter include an excellent list of questions to be asked when determining whether an archival collection should be acquired and a list of talking points for speaking to donors. Chapter 3 introduces archival appraisal, considered by many archivists to be the most intellectually demanding archival function, and one that distinguishes archival work from other related disciplines. The chapter focuses on appraisals performed after acquisition. Pre-acquisition appraisal...

Korostoleva, Elena. The European Union and its Eastern Neighbours: Towards a More Ambitious Partnership? (review)

REVIEWS 391 Another strength of the book is that the oral history interviews allows Cohen to critically assess the relationship between wartime experiences and official post-war memory politics. As Cohen finds, the chaotic and painful realities of life and survival under occupation were not accounted for in the official memory of the post-war years. Perhaps for that reason, the war myth, despite sustained official efforts to institute it, seems to have exerted limited power over the minds of Cohen’s interviewees. The book’s main weakness is the lack of clear, guiding research questions. For instance, we learn that the main thesis of chapter seven (‘Propaganda and Persuasion’) is that ‘all the ‘rational’ or ‘logistical’ energies, resources, and time that went into persuading civilians by word (written or oral) or illustration (poster or motion picture) probably had less of a long-term influence or footprint than the overall emotions that the enduring occupation evoked’ (p. 149). Such vague and convoluted research questions are hardly answerable, and as a result too much of the book reads like a report on the author’s sources. While the sources are often interesting in and of themselves, better research questions would have focused the narrative and added to the book’s argumentative value. While the source base in general appears adequate, it is somewhat curious that the author has not consulted archival holdings in Germany. The reason for the omission is not clear. Not least with regard to popular attitudes and propaganda, military records held in Freiburg could have offered much valuable information. The above objections notwithstanding, Smolensk under the Nazis remains a fascinating account of everyday Soviet life under German rule in Russia which adds substantially to our knowledge of the period. It deserves to be read by scholars and others interested in the Great Patriotic War in general and everyday life under occupation in particular. Norwegian Defence Research Establishment Johannes Due Enstad Korostoleva, Elena. The European Union and its Eastern Neighbours: Towards a More Ambitious Partnership? BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies, 78. Routledge, London and New York, 2012. xix + 188 pp. Map. Figure. Notes. Bibliography. Index. £85.00. Elena Korostolova’s book aims to contribute to scholarly — and policy — debate in two main areas, both of which are well covered in the literature and sound familiar. First, as the title indicates, to explore the nature and difficulties of the EU’s policy towards the eastern neighbourhood, focusing on the EU’s core instruments of engagement — the European Neighbourhood Policy SEER, 93, 2, APRIL 2015 392 (ENP) and its offspring Eastern Partnership (EaP). Second, to draw from this some conclusions about the effectiveness of the EU as an external actor and the familiar discourse of the EU as a ‘transformative power’. Published in 2012, the study is based on field research carried out between 2008 and 2011 in four countries — Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine. Data was collected via multiple methods including national surveys, focus group discussions, interviews (over 100) and school essays. Thus a key quality and distinct feature is the originality of the underpinning research that provides insights into: the extent to which the wider population in those four countries are informed about the EU and the level of interest in it; how citizens of various ages and backgrounds view the EU itself, the merits of the EU’s policy towards and relations with their country and their country’s policy towards and engagement with the EU. There are seven chapters including the introduction and conclusions. The introduction provides an extremely useful overview of the evolution of the ENP/EaP, highlighting the interventions and competing preferences of actors and institutions within the EU and also reflects on the scholarly literature. Chapters one and two cover the concepts of partnership and the primacy of governance in EU policy respectively. Chapters three, four and five are the country case studies. The contradiction between, and consequences of, the EU’s rhetoric of partnership and the reality of the EU’s actual approach is the central theme. The study emphasizes the EU’s de facto adherence to its longstanding practice of conditionality-based transfer of rules and legislation — that...

The system of textbook approval in Poland under communist rule (1944–1989) as a tool of power of the regime

This paper analyses the process of production and regulation of school textbooks in Poland under communist rule. The stages of textbook approval were as follows: selection of authors; editorial work at the publishing house; discussions in the commissions of the Ministry of Education; decisions of the censorship office. It is argued that the Polish United Workers’ Party (i.e. the Polish communist party) played a dominant role at every step of this process. The question of possible influence of the Soviet communists is also addressed. Some changes in the textbook approval process are traced in time, with emphasis put on sustainability of the principle of dominant position of the party. The constraints of power of the communist regime in the field of education are briefly discussed, with the human factor given most serious consideration. There had always been a shortage of people, from the party’s point of view, ready to implement rules, and far too many of those who undermined them. This analysis is based on the archival holdings of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of Poland and of the censorship office. Teachers’ press and other publications dealing with school textbooks and history of education in the People’s Poland have also been used.

Description of Archival Holdings of the International Monetary Fund and the Project to Make Descriptions Available Online

The Archives of the International Monetary Fund have successfully conducted an ambitious project to produce standardized description of the archival holdings of the institution and make these descriptions widely available online through the use of the software Adlib. This paper will examine the different steps that made this project possible, the lessons learned during the process and the way forward for this excellent project.

UNPUBLISHED ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS FOR THE N.F. KATANOV’S JOURNEYS

Purpose The study of unpublished diaries by N.F. Katanov on its Central Asia Travel during 1890 – 1892. Methodology Historical-genetics method, systems approach, critical method. Results Exact amount of archival holdings in the National Archives of the Republic of Tatarstan, concludes the feasibility publication travelling diaries by N.F. Katanov to the Semirechye, Tarbagatai and Xinjiang in 1890 - 1892 years in a holistic way. Practical implications The introduction of new sources for investigation of the structure of everyday life, and the functioning of the military and administrative apparatus of the Qing Empire in the last decade of the XIX century.

Setting All the Captives Free: Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection in Allegheny Country, by Ian K. Steele

All the Captives Free: Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection in Allegheny Country, Ian K. Steele. McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. xvi, 688 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). Ian K. Steele is not a newcomer to the history of imperial politics, military and frontiers within the Atlantic world context. Indeed, his previous works (and there are many) weave together all these topics grounded in the experiences of colonial North America. This has set the groundwork for his latest contribution. At the heart of this 688-page volume is a goal to reconstruct the world of the Allegheny country through the case studies of captives taken between the years 1745-1765 (before and during the Seven Years and what Steele calls the of 1763-1765). According to the author, by learning as much as possible about all the captives of all the contending groups, and analyzing their capture, adaptation, and fate, it is hoped that our understanding of the events, the captives and the consequences will be greatly improved (p. 3). In order to cover a wide range of topics, the book is divided into four parts. Part One: Captured in Peacetime looks at the different ways Algonquians, Iroquoians, and Europeans took and treated captives before the Seven Years War. Steele argues that the captive taking resulted in provoking the subsequent military conflicts of the eighteenth century. Part Two Captured in War looks at the captivity experience during the Seven Years and the Anglo-Indian War. He alters the perception that captives resisted and attempted to escape. Further, he contends that these wars were not total warfare, as has been described other historians. This is explained looking at raids, sieges, and battles -all of which, he argues, describe a different experience or context for captive taking. Part Three: Captivity, Conversion, and Escape looks at the physical journey to the captor's community, the process of captive selection, and specific emphasis on adoption practices among Native peoples. Equally interesting to Steele are stories of those who escaped and the initiatives to find and re-claim captives. Finally, Part Four: Setting all the Captives Free weeds out the ambiguous nature of the freed captives. It looks at ways European captives became free through gift exchange, ransom, and forcible recaptures. By looking at the objections of returning captives and their metis character, Steele questions the attractiveness of European society. Taken as a whole, Steele's latest work provides an exhaustive and comprehensive database of all those captured in Allegheny Country from 1745-1765. Through a massive survey of colonial newspapers, archival holdings, printed narratives, letters, local folklore and genealogies, Steele has managed to compile an extraordinary amount of information on approximately 6,130 people captured or killed, including: Indians, British, French, and Canadians who were traders, warriors, soldiers, farmers, wives, and children. This information is then made ready to the reader as an appendix, spanning no short of 113 pages! Each entry is organized alphabetically and includes the name (surname if provided), a physical description, and the source from which this data was collected. …

Between Families and Institutions. Zadar’s Notaries as Intermediaries between Church and Society in the mid-Sixteenth Century Adriatic

Abstract This essay examines the roles of notaries as intermediaries between the ecclesiastical and temporal spheres in Zadar, then the capital of Venice’s Adriatic possessions. My focus is on the economic and social relationships between notaries and urban society during the middle of the century. The essay’s main emphasis is not on the city’s archbishops, exclusively Venetian patricians as they were, but instead on notaries and their ecclesiastical customers. By utilising the rich archival holdings of the Croatian State Archives in Zadar, I investigate the interactions of members of the cathedral chapter and examine their membership status, economic activities, and their formal and informal processes of exchange, as well as various linkages between these functionaries and the city’s inhabitants.

Materials on the Russian-American Company in the Iudin Collection

The paper describes the manuscript and archival collections of Siberian bibliophile Gennadii Vasil’evich Iudin (1840–1912) and discusses the fate of these materials in the Soviet era, when they were distributed to a number of archives in the Soviet Union. The paper concentrates on the archival holdings of the Russian-American Company, which was responsible for the settlement of Russian America, including Alaska.

Sources in the Norfolk Record Office which Relate to the History of Norfolk and the Low Countries

Taking a random selection of documents from the Norfolk Record Office’s very extensive ‘Designated’ holdings of archives, this paper attempts to demonstrate the wealth of primary source material available in Norfolk for the study of the county’s relations with the Low Countries, over a period, which spans almost a millennium. It considers the ‘Strangers’ who came to Norfolk from the Low Countries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but it also seeks to set this group within a wider chronological canvas; the arrival of the ‘Strangers’ into the county was an important occurrence, but it was only one episode in a long history of links stretching across the North Sea, a fact which is sometimes overlooked. Close contacts between Norfolk and its nearest continental neighbours already existed in the Middle Ages and these have continued strongly up to the present time. Such links have undoubtedly had a significant impact on the county and its people, and have helped to shape Norfolk’s identity and character today. Many of the activities that stemmed from the relationships between Norfolk and the Low Countries generated records, which have survived in large numbers, and these help to tell a long and fascinating story.

Archive Digitization Application (ADA)

In this project we partnered with local, state, and federal actors to digitize and exhibit special collections from the Macon Middle Georgia archives; and we deliver an open source digitization workflow management software solution (ADA) and a case study of the Macon experience.In order to fully explore the public record of the history of a city, it is essential that citizens both understand the nature of the public record and lend their support to its preservation and access. If we do not collectively work to provide basic maintenance and access, and do not find resources to place as much of the inventory and index access on line as possible, along with images of major printed and manuscript sources such as the proceedings from the Mayor and City Council, and selected series and opinions of the Law Department, the future is bleak for the study of the Public History of America's cities. Years of neglect have already taken their toll on the historical record. The public records of America's cities are dying.We aim to enable citizen activism in a complex analysis of community history and its living meaning in contemporary lives with an open source solution for digital library and archival production. We want to empower citizens with the knowledge that public history is a public good, and that interpretation of history is and should be a participatory act of the community itself.A significant challenge to a community archive digitization effort is the diverse array of actors necessary to assure a sustainable solution. One institution will have the archival holdings, another will have infrastructure for imaging and storage, yet another will have access to low cost or volunteer labor. Yet, involving this diverse set of actors can threaten the carefully shielded order and authenticity of an archive. To assure central control and authenticity along with dispersed production roles, we delivered an open source solution for archive digitization workflow management.

News from the Hemingway Collection

News from the Hemingway Collection Susan Wrynn Research Grants The Ernest Hemingway Research Grants resumed in 2014. This year’s winners are Ross Tangedal, a Ph.D candidate at Kent State University; Michael Von Cannon, a Ph.D candidate at Louisiana State University, and Stephanie Gall, an undergraduate student at Wellesley College. The postmark deadline for 2015 grant applications is 1 November 2014; awards will be announced on 15 December. See details at http://www.jfklibrary.org/About-Us/Job-Volunteer-Internships/Research-Grants-and-Fellowships/Ernest-Hemingway-Research-Grants.aspx Museo Ernest Hemingway Collection With support from the Finca Vigía Foundation, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum received more than 2,500 digital images from the Finca Vigía Museum in Havana, now available to researchers at the library. These digital facsimiles were taken from the archival holdings still located in Hemingway’s Cuban home. The Archives staff has created a Finding Aid offered online at http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/MEHC.aspx On the opening of the material, Tom Putnam, Director of the Kennedy Library said “We are pleased to make available to researchers copies of these materials that provide a unique glimpse into the everyday life of Ernest Hemingway. For a literary figure who is often portrayed as larger than life, this trove of personal ephemera serves to humanize the man and to understand the writer.” PEN Hemingway Awards NoViolet Bulawayo has won the 2014 PEN HemingwayAward for a distinguished first book of fiction for her critically acclaimed We Need New Names (Reagan Arthur Books/Little Brown and Company). Bulawayo will receive a $10,000 prize from the Hemingway Foundation and PEN New England, as [End Page 182] well as a residency in the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series at the University of Idaho’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. Born in Zimbabwe, Bulawayo’s semi-autobiographical novel chronicles the life of a ten-year old girl in Zimbabwe during its so-called Lost Decade and then her life as a teenager in present-day America. Bulawayo is presently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. The two Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award finalists are Mitchell S. Jackson for The Residue Years (Bloomsbury USA) and Anthony Wallace for The Old Priest (University of Pittsburgh Press). Three writers received honorable mention: Jasmine Beach-Ferrara for Damn Love (Ig Publishing), Kristopher Jansma for The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards (Viking), and Ethan Rutherford for The Peripatetic Coffin (Ecco/HarperCollins). Geraldine Brooks, author of The People of the Book, Caleb’s Crossing, and Year of Wonders, was the featured keynote speaker at the 6 April award ceremony. Australian-born, Ms. Brooks worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. Her novel, March, won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. [End Page 183] Susan Wrynn John F. Kennedy Library Copyright © 2014 The Ernest Hemingway Foundation

Ukrainian archival holdings in Canada: archaeographical and historiographical views

The article informs about the “Archival Ucrainica in Canada. Reference book”, which describes Ukrainian archival holdings in Canada. It is noted these archival holdings contain a lot of knowledge, but until recently, they are little known to Ukrainian scholars.

Źródła autobiograficzne w zbiorach Archiwum Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego w Warszawie

Archiwum Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego im. E. Ringelbluma posiada w swoich zbiorach znane badaczom źródła autobiograficzne takie jak relacje, pamiętniki czy dzienniki zgrupowane w trzech dużych zespołach: Relacje (sygn. 301), Pamiętniki (sygn. 302) i Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy (Archiwum Ringelbluma). Ponadto w zasobach archiwum znajdują się rozproszone w wielu zespołach dokumenty biograficzne słabo dotąd wykorzystywane przez naukowców, na które składają się m.in. formularze, ankiety, wykazy rejestracyjne, życiorysy, korespondencja, podania. Są to źródła nie tyle uzupełniające naszą wiedzę o Zagładzie, co przede wszystkim ją poszerzające. O ich nieocenionej wartości przesądzają tuż powojenny czas powstania (głównie lata 40.) oraz autorstwo (ocaleni, ich najbliżsi lub świadkowie). Ogniskują się w nich jednostkowe losy żydowskich obywateli, a także tragiczne wydarzenia w miasteczkach i wioskach pominiętych na kartach historii

Musical Treasures from Moravian Archives, Volume 1: Johannes Herbst: Hymns to Be Sung at the Pianoforte

Musical Treasures from Moravian Archives, Volume 1: Johannes Herbst: Hymns to Be Sung at the Pianoforte

Analysis of PIASA's Archival Information Center Project

The author discusses reorganizing the archives of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA), publishing archival descriptions and inventories online, and disseminating information about them. Archival holdings of PIASA are now included in the Polish online archival information system and databases of the New York State Archives.