Describes the history and donation of the Paul Robert Magocsi Carpatho-Ruthenica collection to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Librrary in 2019.
The Halcyon: The Newsletter of the Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Selected articles on the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library's Slavic and East European collections:
Describes the donation by Natalka Husar, a local Toronto artist, of historical photographs, posters, and assorted documents associated with the former Ukrainian People’s (National) Home.
Describes a collection of anti-American propaganda published in Prague during the Cold War. The majority of the sixty publications were issued between 1948, when Soviet operatives executed a coup d’état in Czechoslovakia, and 1953, the year…
About the purchase of several movable (pop-up) books by the Czech artist Vojtech Kubašta (1914–1992).
Outlines the history and sociopolitical importance of the translation of George Orwell's Animal Farm into Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, Russian, Lithuanian, and Serbian.
Describes the significant donation of archival material from the Bata Shoe Company. The content ranges from corporate records from Bata companies’ various departments — including the human resources, commercial, legal, and technical departments…
A description of photographs and the history of the Drahiruk band of brigands active in the Carpathian Mountains in the late nineteenth century. The photographs are in the Album Pokucia assembled by Juliusz Dutkiewicz sometime in 1880.…
Describes a gift of several publications issued by Ukrainian prisoners-of-war interned following World War I in camps in Czechoslovakia and Italy.
About the purchase of a collection of about seventy-five books. The works, all with decorative cloth covers and/or dust jackets, many of which include eye-catching graphic details and inspiring illustrations, represent, if not the most…
The first Jacyk Library Fellow, Lyuba Pidtserkovna, catalogued material in the John Luczkiw Collection of pre-1950 Ukrainian Canadiana.
Purchase of an exceptional first edition of Mauro Orbini’s Il regno degli Slavi (Realm of the Slavs), the first comprehensive survey of South Slavic history and an early contribution to Pan-Slavism, from the book collection of the Earls…
Gift of first editions by the Slovene writer Ivan Cankar (1876-1918) from the Laurentian University, along with several first editions from the stacks of Robarts Library, added to Fisher Rare Book Library.
Describes a symposium, and exhibition featuring documents from the Fisher Library, honoring Josef Škvorecký on his eightieth birthday, sponsored by the Literární akademie in Prague, in collaboration with the Institute for Czech Language of the…
About a diary kept by Dmitrii Dmitrievich Litovchenko, a captain in the Preobrazhenskii Leib-Guard Regiment of the White Army in Ukraine, recording his thoughts and impressions from 7 January to 7 November 1919, during the White Movement's anti-…
Describes the tragic life of the artist Otto Schneid and the posthumous donation to the Fisher Library of his extensive archive consisting of over five thousand items, including: book manuscripts and articles; correspondence with artists, public…
Biography of the collector of rare Polonica, Count Emeryk Hutten Czapski (1897-1979).
A notice on the donation of the Emeryk Hutten Czapski collection of rare Polonica by Karol Godlewski and family.
Donation of a collection of nearly three hundred volumes from the Macedonian Collection of Horace G. Lunt, Professor Emeritus of Slavic Linguistics, Harvard University. Included in the collection are rare journals from the nineteen forties and…