Metadata: Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Research Institute, Balkan Section: Albanian and Yugoslav Files
Collection
- Country:
- Hungary
- Holding institution:
- Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Vera és Donald Blinken Nyílt Társadalom Archívum
- Postal address:
- Arany János u. 32, 1051 Budapest, Hungary
- Phone number:
- 36-1-327-3250
- Web address:
- https://osaarchivum.org/
- Email:
- info@osaarchivum.org
- Reference number:
- Sub-fond HU OSA 300-10
- Title:
- Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Research Institute, Balkan Section: Albanian and Yugoslav Files
- Creator/accumulator:
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Research Institute
- Date(s):
- 1943/1994
- Language:
- Albanian
- Bosnian
- Croatian
- English
- German
- Macedonian
- Serbian
- Extent:
- 712 Archival boxes; 89.0 linear meters
- Type of material:
- Textual Material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The sub-fond contains materials (clippings from Albanian, Yugoslav and foreign press, RFE/RL research papers, and excerpts from RFE/RL and Balkan countries radio broadcasting) collected by research specialists and analysts at the Balkan Section of the RFE/RL Research Institute. The issues most frequently monitored were those on politics, economics, and social matters. Particularly extensive are files on the Albanian and Yugoslav economy and agriculture, communist parties and their relations with those of other countries, foreign relations and dissidents, and on Kosovo.
Materials concerning Jewish history and culture can be found in 4 folders dispersed throughout 2 archival series out of 5 that the sub-fond contains. This material informs about lives of Jewish communities in socialist Yugoslavia, from 1966 to 1985. 1) Archival series HU OSA 300-10-2 Yugoslav Subject Files I contains 3 folders with information about Jews in socialist Yugoslavia (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, SFRY) , 1966-1976, based on the Yugoslav press under Tito rule. 2) Archival series HU 300-10-4 Yugoslav Biographical Files I contains 1 folder that informs about Danilo Kiš, a Yugoslav novelist of Jewish origin, during the years 1976-1984.
- Archival history:
- The sub-fond was transferred to the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives in May 1995 under the initial mandate to preserve over 2.5 linear kilometers of documents accumulated in the archives of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Balkan section was established as part of the RFE/RL Research Unit in order to collect and prepare for publication information about ongoing affairs and developments in socialist Yugoslavia and Albania, seen through the pages of the Yugoslavian and Albanian press. The establishment and activity of the RFE/RL was related to informational confrontation in the Cold War. The material was processed and revised at the Blinken OSA in 1997 and 2001.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Danilo Kiš
- System of arrangement:
- The sub-fond includes 5 series systematized according to legacy structure of the sub-fond.
- Access, restrictions:
- Reproduction is allowed for non-commercial purposes.
- Finding aids:
- The catalog (folders/items level) is available online.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://catalog.osaarchivum.org/catalog/jDeneAXW
- Yerusha Network member:
- Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives
- Author of the description:
- Anastasia Felcher; Blinken OSA; 2022 based on Bosko Spasojevic; Blinken OSA 1997 and Olga Zaslavskaya; Blinken OSA; 2001.