Metadata: Leningrad Branch of the Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Holding institution (official language):
- Санкт-Петербургский филиал архива Российской академии наук
- Postal address:
- 199034, Russia, St. Petersburg, Universitetskaia naberezhnaia, d. 1
- Phone number:
- (812) 323-08-21
- Web address:
- http://isaran.ru
- Email:
- archive@spbrc.nw.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 18
- Title:
- Leningrad Branch of the Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences
- Title (official language):
- Ленинградское отделение Издательства Академии наук СССР
- Creator/accumulator:
- Leningrad Branch of the Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences
- Date(s):
- 1899/1983
- Language:
- Russian
- German
- French
- English
- Hebrew
- Latin
- Extent:
- 12,615 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Housed in the fonds are manuscripts meant for publication (1899-1953); recordkeeping materials of the Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences (1919-57) and documents of the planning department (1946-56), including correspondence with authors on issues pertaining to publications, with the Press Committee and Lengublit on censorship issues, etc.; publication plans and lists of books and journals published, as well as documents of the editorial department, and in particular, editorial portfolios of published editions (1920-57); illustrative materials, including materials pertaining to the annual Epigraphy of the Orient, The Palestine Collection, the journal Soviet Ethnography, etc. (1920-83); personal files of staff members (1932-52); materials of editorial boards of scholarly journals (1948-60); author contracts (1940-68); etc. Materials pertaining to Jewish history and culture, housed primarily in op. 1, include manuscripts and typewritten copies of books and articles on Hebraica and Judaica, including: N. V. Iushmanov, “The Theory of Emphatic Consonants in Semitic Languages” (published as “The Theory of Semitic Emphatic Consonants” in the collection Reports of the USSR Academy of Sciences, ser. B, 1925); V. V. Struve, “Mention of Jews in Early Hellenistic Literature” (published in Proceedings of the Collegium of Orientalists of the Asiatic Museum of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (vol. II, no. 2; Leningrad, 1927); P. K. Kokovtsov, “On the Literary Activity of Samuel ha-Nagid,” “A Note on the Jewish-Khazar Manuscripts of Cambridge and Oxford,” and “Jewish-Khazar Correspondence in the 10th c.,” including medieval Hebrew texts and Russian translations thereof (these materials were included in the following publications of Kokovtsov: “From the Hebrew-Arabic Manuscripts of the Imperial Public Library. 1. On the Literary Activity of Samuel ha-Nagid,” in News of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, ser. VI, 1908, vol. II, no. 18; “A Note on the Jewish-Khazar Manuscripts of Cambridge and Oxford” in the collection Reports of the USSR Academy of Sciences, ser. B, 1926; and Jewish-Khazar Correspondence in the 10th c.; Leningrad, 1932); S. Ia. Borovoi, “Jews in the Zaporozhian Sich (Based on materials of the Sich Archive)” and M. V. Dzhervis, “On the Issue of the Partitions of Poland (Critical-Historiographical Remarks)” (these articles were included in Istoricheskii sbornik [Historical Collection], Leningrad, 1934, vol. 1); Z. L. Amitin-Shapiro, “Beliefs and Rituals of Central Asian Jews Pertaining to Motherhood and Early Childhood” (published in the journal Soviet Ethnography, 1933, no. 3-4); A. S. Tager, “Tsarist Russia and the Beilis Case: Research on Unpublished Archival Documents” (published in a separate edition, the full title of which was: Tsarist Russia and the Beilis Case: On the History of Antisemitism: Research on Unpublished Archival Documents [Moscow, 1933]); also included is a 1934 review of this book; Iu. A. Solodukho, “Slavery in the Jewish Society of Syria and Iran of the 2nd to 5th c.,” which was published in the form of a dissertation (Leningrad, 1938); appended to this are several evaluations of it, and in particular, one by D. S. Likhachev (1937-38); an inventory of documents from the A. S. Firkovich collection that pertain to the history of Crimean, Polish, and Lithuanian Karaites in the 14th-19th c., with a preface by Academician V. V. Struve; also appended are contracts regarding the timeframe within which the manuscript was to be submitted to the editorial board, payment, and other formalities (1939); N. A. Meshcherskii, Josephus Flavius’s The Jewish War in Old Russian Translation (published as a separate book in 1958, Moscow, Leningrad, Izdatel’stvo AN SSSR); M. I. Shakhnovich, The Reactionary Essence of Judaism: A Brief Outline of the Origin and Class Essence of the Jewish Religion (published as a separate book in the popular science series, Leningrad, Izdatel’stvo AN SSSR, 1960); etc. The fonds also contains obituaries of certain Orientalists and Hebraists, including D. A. Khvol’son (1911), Baron V. R. Rozen (1908), and others.
- Archival history:
- The Academy’s archive was established by decree of Emperor Peter I in 1728 to house documents of the Conference (supreme assembly) of the Academy of Sciences. At the same time, Academy of Sciences President L. L. Bliumentrost appointed Gerhard Friedrich Müller, a student of the Academy gymnasium (subsequently an academician, and the first historiographer to the Russian Empire), to organise the files of the Conference of the Academy of Sciences. During the 18th-20th c., separate archives of other subdivisions of the Academy of Sciences existed as well: the archives of the Chancellery of the Academy of Sciences (18th c.) and the Committee of the Board of the Academy of Sciences (the chancellery’s institutional successor; documents date from 1803); and archives of departments. In 1922, all Academy archives were merged into a single Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, renamed in 1930 the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences (and in 1991, once again the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences). In 1936, a Moscow branch of the archive was created in connection with the Academy’s relocation to that city. In 1963, the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad was reorganised as the Leningrad Branch of the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences, while the Archival Directorate was transferred to Moscow. In 1991, the Leningrad branch was renamed the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPF ARAN). The archive houses over 1,600 fonds containing approximately one million storage units.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The printing press of the Academy of Sciences was established in 1727, with the first academic edition published the following year. From the printing press’ foundation, publication of academic works was overseen by the Chancellery of the Academy of Sciences. Upon the introduction in 1803 of new Academy of Sciences regulations ratified by the charter of 1836, this duty was entrusted to the permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences. The Publishing House of the Russian Academy of Sciences was established in April 1923 in Petrograd (and in August 1925 renamed the Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences). From 1930 on, all Academy of Sciences operations pertaining to the preparation, publication, and distribution of scholarly works were concentrated in the publishing house, which included (as sectors thereof) the printing press and the book depository of academic publications. In 1934, the publishing house was transferred to Moscow; and in Leningrad, the Leningrad Branch of the Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences was formed. In 1963, the Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences was renamed the Nauka (Science) Publishing House.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes eight inventories (op. 1, in 4 pts.; op. 2, in 3 vols.; op. 3, in 6 vols.; op. 6, in 12 pts.), structured mainly alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
