PJRC Update

Annual newsletters from the Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre.

  • Publishers in Exile: Belarusian and Russian Emigre Publishing 2022-present | The Cataloguing Corner: Changes in New Ukrainian Acquisitions and the Library of Congress Classification on Ukraine | On Remembering: Elvi Aer, Estonia, and Estonian…

  • Russian Fever in Toronto: The University College Women's Literary Society, 1916-1923 | Black people in the Soviet Union and behind the Iron Curtain: 1920s-1970s | Socialism on Film | The Cataloguing Corner: Linguistic Diversity under One Cover |…

  • Happy Birthday to Karel Čapek’s Robots, 1921–2021 | War and Revolution in Ukraine, 1914–1923 | Canadian-Polish Relations: Solidarity/Solidarność Collection | Out of the Ordinary: Notable Provenance of Select Books at…

  • Slavic Studies and the University Library: A Look Back to the Late 1940s | Brutally Ornamental: Mosaics of Late Soviet Modernism, 1955-1989 | Dostoyevsky's Works in the Deluxe Parisian Book Market | If I Were a Rose, My Sweetheart, You Might Love…

  • New Primary Sources for the Study of Post-WWII Ukrainian Refugees | Prof. T. Lahusen's Collection on Vasilii Azhaev's "Far from Moscow" | Stalin: Man of Letters. The Stalin Digital Archive | By the Grace of God, We, the Great Sovereign, Tsar…

  • The Russian Revolution in Contemporary Opinion | From a New Hope (1977) to The Last Jedi (2017) | Leonid Denysenko's Displaced Persons Camp Illustrations | Returning Home: Well-Travelled Documents | Professor Peter J. Potichnyj--Donor

  • Crime and Punishment at 150: Global Contexts | Toronto's East European Literary and Musical Landmarks | Revolutionaries, Firefighters, and Thespians | Collecting and Researching Soviet Legal Documents

  • Glenn Goluska's Imprimerie Dromadaire: Russian Influences | Ventures in East-Central European and Russian Copyright | Casting Type or Type Casting.

  • The University College Fire of 1890: The Story of a Polish Exile, a Jewish Benefactor, and a Slavist | Discovering Slavic Journals in the Periodical Reading Room | Ex Libris Friedrich Hitzer: Russian Modernist Books | Eastern European Musicology…

  • CERES and UTL: 50 Years of Cooperation | Writers with Cameras: Literature and Photography in Russia | Slavic Humanities Index--A New Bibliographic Database | Ukrainian Women's Fate and Freedom | Social Media and the PJRC | 1923, 1933, 1943, 1953…

  • The End of the World in Song, Dance, and Film | The Jaroslav Reichl Czech Book Collection | Peter Jacyk's Western Ukrainian Serials | Building Boundless Collections: Models of Giving | PJRC International Outreach--Prague | Women in History:…

  • Database of Soviet Samizdat Periodicals: 1956-1986 | Pashkievich Collection Doubles UTL's Belarusian Holdings | Ukrainian Icons: The Pursuit of a National Identity | Abolition of Serfdom in the Russian Empire, 1861-2011 | In Memoriam: Vlasta…

  • Jacyk Fellows Assist with Displaced Persons Collection | The Joys of Being an Armchair Archaeologist | Edifices of Empire: Architecture of Austro-Hungary | Oldest Universities of Central and Eastern Europe | Saints and Sinners: Notable Central…

  • WWII 70 Years Later: New Ideas, New Exhibit at Petro Jacyk | New 2010 Jacyk Library Fellow | Austro-Hungarica at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library | Ukrainian Art Song Project | UTL's Ucrainica Appears Online at the Internet Archive | Stalin…

  • Eavesdropping on Russia | Czechoslovakia 1968 | Paul Robert Magocsi: Scholar, Historian, Public Advocate | The Honourable John Yaremko Presents Gift to UTL | Petro Jacyk Library Fellow | Searching OPAC Using Cyrillic