Metadata: I. N. Vinnikov
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, 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. 1045
- Title:
- I. N. Vinnikov
- Title (official language):
- Винников И. Н.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Vinnikov, I N
- Date(s):
- 1880/1977
- Language:
- Russian
- French
- English
- Hebrew
- Arabic
- German
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 763 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Graphic material
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains I. N. Vinnikov’s scholarly works in ethnography, the history of science, Arabic studies, Semitics and epigraphy (1923-73); biographical documents (1880-1977); correspondence (1914-73); and scholarly works by other persons (1897-1972). Materials on Judaica and Hebraica are found in all of the fonds’ inventories.
Op. 1 includes manuscripts of I. N. Vinnikov, among them the article “The Dybbuk,” with an appended cover letter to L. Ia. Shternberg requesting evaluation of the quality of the text (1923); excerpts from the Babylonian Talmud containing proverbs and statements by sages regarding the home, beliefs related to illnesses, etc.; detailed notes analysing the tractates “The Sabbath,” “Eruvin,” “Pesahim” (precepts regarding the Pesach feast), “Sukkah” (“Tabernacles”) and “Baba Batra” (1930-60s); a lexicon and concordance of the verbal forms of the Jerusalem (Palestinian) Talmud (circa 1960); an article titled “The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Oral Palestinian Tradition” (1966); the program of a special course on teaching Hebrew, photocopies of texts in Hebrew with translation and grammatical analysis (1967) and a “Beginning Reader of the Hebrew Language, with a Glossary” (1970); the text of the “Charter of the Qumran community,” with a translation and analysis; a Hebrew translation of M. Sholokhov’s story “A Man’s Fate” (1960s); a report titled “On the Life and Activities of L. Ia. Shternberg” delivered by I. N. Vinnikov to the reading circle of Academician V. V. Radlov (1927); articles titled “A. I. Harkavy” and “P. K. Kokovtsov” (1952-62); reviews of M. Kh. Fridberg’s articles “The Compound Sentence in Yiddish-Taytsh of the XVI-XVIII c.” and “On the Unequal Stability of Various Spheres of the Grammatical System in the Mixing of Languages” (1954-58); etc. Op. 2 includes visual materials, among them, photo portraits of I. N. Vinnikov, P. K. Kokovtsov, the Hebraist and Jerusalem library director Ts. Harkavy and others (1916-72); clippings from newspapers and journals with articles and reviews on I. N. Vinnikov’s work and in particular, pieces by Ts. Harkavy titled “Eleven Days in Moscow and Leningrad” and “From the Treasuries of Leningrad (On a Fragment of I. N. Vinnikov’s monograph An Attempt of a Lexicon and Concordance of Traditional Palestinian Literature (the Letter ג)),” published in the newspaper Maariv; A. Belov, “Leningrad – A Center for the Study of Hebrew Literature” in the newspaper Al HaMishmar (1960s); A. Liberman, “The Scholar’s Path (on I. N. Vinnikov)” in the newspaper Birobidzhaner shtern (1972); etc.
Op. 3 contains I. N. Vinnikov’s correspondence with A. Ariel (1961-63), Z. Ben-Haim (1958-69), Yehezkel Kutcher (1968), S. Abramson (1942-43), V. G. Tan-Bogoraz (1929-31) and others.
Included in op. 4 are manuscripts of various persons, including N. V. Iushmanov’s article “The Structure of the Semitic Root” (1930s); S. Ia. Rosen, “Hebraisms in Polish and Russian Vocabulary” (1945); A. Iokhanan, “Three Hebrew Ostraka from Arad” (1962); a course of lectures by L. Ia. Shternberg titled “An Introduction to Ethnography” (1925); etc.
- 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 centuries, 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:
- Isaak Natanovich Vinnikov (1897-1973) was an Orientalist-Semitics scholar, Arabist and ethnographer. In 1922-25, he studied in the ethnology and linguistics department of the social sciences faculty of Leningrad State University, where his teachers were L. Ia. Shternberg, P. K. Kokovtsov and I. Iu. Krachkovskii. After graduation, he taught in the ethnography department of the geography faculty of Leningrad State University and collaborated with the Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Society. From 1929-43, he worked in the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences, of which he served as director from 1941-42. In 1941 he defended his doctoral thesis on “Arabs in the USSR”. In 1939-41, he worked at the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute; from 1943 to 1953, at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad. He was the founder and head (1938-49) of the ethnography department, head of the Assyriology and Hebraica department (1945-1949) and a professor in the Arabic philology department (from 1955 on) of Leningrad State University. I. N. Vinnikov’s primary works were devoted to the study of the language and ethnography of the Arabs of Soviet Central Asia, as well as to compiling a lexicon of the Aramaic inscriptions of the period from the 9th c. BCE to the 2nd c. CE. He also made a particular study of the lexicon of the Jerusalem Talmud and published an article on this subject titled “An Attempt of a Lexicon and Concordance of Traditional Palestinian Literature (the Letter ג)” (Palestinskii sbornik no. 5 (68), 1960).
- Access points: locations:
- Moscow
- Russia
- St. Petersburg
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises four inventories arranged by structure/theme, chronologically and alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
