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The Eurasian Nationalities Collection in Non-Slavic Languages Held by the Slavic and Baltic Division of the New York Public Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Nermin Eren*
Affiliation:
Columbia University, New York

Extract

The Slavic and Baltic Division of the New York Public Library (NYPL) possesses a valuable collection of pamphlets, books and journals which numbers approximately three thousand items in various languages of the Eurasian nationalities. Bibliographical records of the collection were completed in the 1960s by Edward Allworth, Sakine Berengian, David Nissman and Azamat Altay. Each record contains bibliographic information in original script or in transliteration and a short annotation in English.

Type
Reports
Copyright
Copyright © 1995 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe and ex-USSR, Inc 

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References

Notes

2. A. Y. “Soviet Literature in Minor Languages.” Bulletin of the New York Public Library. 31, January 1927, pp. 35.Google Scholar

3. Edward Allworth. Central Asian Publishing and the Rise of Nationalism. An Essay and a List of Publications in the New York Public Library. New York, The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, 1965.Google Scholar

4. , Allworth Central 5. Google Scholar

5. This list does not include materials in Adige, Assyrian, Buryat, Dargin, Ingush, Kabardian, Kalmuk, Lakh and Lezgin languages.Google Scholar

6. Edward Allworth. Nationalities of the Soviet East Publications and Writing Systems. New York, London: Columbia University Press, 1971. The other collections include: Columbia University; Harvard University; Hebrew Union College; The Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace; Jewish Theological Seminary; The Library of Congress; University of California at Los Angeles; Yale University.Google Scholar

7. For alphabetizing purpose, the transliteration tables given in Edward Allworth, Nationalities of the Soviet East Publications and Writing Systems (New York, London: Columbia University Press, 1971) have been used. The classification of the languages represented in the collection is based on Bernard Comrie, The Languages of the Soviet Union (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981).Google Scholar