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…
PJRC Publications
Members of the PJRC participate in a number of ongoing projects that provide University of Toronto Libraries with a wealth of new publications, bibliographies, and exhibitions focused on Central and East European library resources. Exhibitions are created throughout the year to highlight topical collections and to mark anniversaries of historical events. Staff create bibliographies, catalogues, and reference compilations as companions or guides to library material. The Centre's annual newsletter, PJRC Update, features a wide range of articles on subjects within the sphere of Slavic research. The PJRC also contributes articles to several UTL newsletters, such as The Halcyon: The Newsletter of the Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library and The University of Toronto Libraries Newsletter.
The Halcyon Newsletters
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…
PJRC Update Newsletters
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…