Metadata: [Manuscripts of Works and Materials Related to the Study of the Peoples of the Russian Empire and USSR]
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Holding institution (official language):
- Институт восточных рукописей Российской Академии наук
- Postal address:
- 191186, St. Petersburg, Dvortsovaia nab., d. 18
- Phone number:
- (812) 315-87-28
- Web address:
- http://www.orientalstudies.ru
- Email:
- iom@orientaistudies.ru
- Reference number:
- Category II
- Title:
- [Manuscripts of Works and Materials Related to the Study of the Peoples of the Russian Empire and USSR]
- Title (official language):
- [Рукописи трудов и материалы, связанные с изучением народов Российской империи и СССР]
- Creator/accumulator:
- Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Date(s):
- 1714/1958
- Language:
- Russian
- Buriat
- German
- Tatar
- Adyghe; Adygei
- Kabardian
- Kirghiz; Kyrgyz
- Yakut
- Georgian
- Extent:
- 734 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains materials related to the study of the peoples of the Russian Empire and the USSR as corresponding to the inventory headings: “Buryats and Kalmyks”, “The Peoples of the Caucasus and Transcaucasia”, “Northern Peoples”, “Turkic Peoples”, “Finno-Ugric Peoples”, “Central Asia”, and “Kazakhs”, in particular, materials of a historical-ethnographic, geographic, folkloric, or lexicographic nature: dictionaries, card files for dictionaries, manuscripts, expedition materials, translations of manuscripts, etc.
Documents pertaining to Jewish history and culture (op. 2) include a typescript of a study by I. M. Pul’ner titled “Jews of the Caucasus in the Russian-Jewish Periodical Press (an index of literature)” (1935); records on residents of Georgia (1806), municipal income for the city and province of Kuba/Quba (1810), and the number of households in the city of Elizavetpol’ (1810) that contain information on the Jewish population; as well as a memorandum on Jews living in Georgia and a “Memorandum on Locations” (localities of Georgia) containing data on the Jewish population (1816).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IVR RAN) is a research institute in the Academy of Sciences system. Its operations are focused mainly on the comprehensive study of landmarks of the literature of the East, as well as of the ancient and medieval history of the countries of Asia and North Africa. The fonds of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts currently contain a significant collection of Jewish materials reflecting both the rabbinical and Karaite traditions: approximately 50,000 printed books in Hebrew (including 66 incunabula and approximately 300 paleotypes); about 10,000 printed books in Yiddish; over 1,700 manuscripts (among them, 1,217 codices and 79 scrolls), not counting a great number of fragments; and about 5,000 copies of Jewish newspapers (published before 1917). The Hebrew fonds was formed during the 19th and 20th centuries from the private collections of L F Friedland, D A Khvol’son, D G Maggid, V V Radlov, E Ross, P K Kokovtsov and other collectors, mandatory copies of all books printed in the territory of the Russian Empire and books expropriated after the October Revolution from synagogues and Jewish schools. Some of the publications were acquired as ‘trophies’ of the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Caucasus
- Elizavetpol’
- Georgia
- Kuba
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Mountain Jews
- Statistics
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises seven inventories arranged thematically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary