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Belarusian Publishing in the West:
A Bibliography—Periodicals

Compiled by Zora Kipel and Vitaut Kipel

In Cooperation with Belarusian Institute of Arts and Sciences

The New York Public Library Slavic, Baltic, and Eurasian Resource Series

     This bibliography of Belarusian publications in the West records Belarusian-language*, and Belarus-related publications in other languages, produced outside of Belarus–mainly in Western Europe, the Americas and Australia–from the mid-19th century, through the year 2000 inclusive. The bibliography is devoted to serials. It lists 414 titles of magazines, newspapers, bulletins and other serial publications, alphabetically by title. Each entry includes title, place of publication, name of editor(s) (when available), the inclusive numbers and dates for ceased publications, and an open date for currents.
     Short-run periodicals are enumerated and described individually. For long-running publications, only the changes (in place of publication, editorial staff, or variant titles) are indicated. There are numerous cross-references to the issuing organizations and alternate titles. A list of abbreviations commonly used in the Belarusian Diaspora is provided at the end of the volume.
     Approximately 90% of the émigré publications represented in these volumes were assembled and recorded over a number of years by Vitaut and Zora Kipel, former staff members of the New York Public Library. In 1999 the collection itself was donated to the Slavic and Baltic Division of the New York Public Library, and the Kipel Family Fund for Belarusian Materials was established. The present bibliography serves as a catalogue of this extensive collection, which is now available to researchers at the Library.

      The last century was notable for the emigration of hundreds of thousands of intellectuals from the lands of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, many of whom wanted to document the activities and accomplishments of their émigré compatriots in regions distant from the homelands. There are, however, nuances that make Zora and Vitaut stand out and that mark them as extraordinary. They have devoted a lifetime, not only to bibliographic work, but to collecting and preserving and proselytizing for resources relating to Belarusian culture in the most all-embracing sense of this term. Since their student days in Belgium, they have actively participated in the life of the Belarusian diaspora and have devoted considerable time and resources to the preservation of the Belarusian cultural patrimony.
      The alphabetical index of authors (pp. 594-621) will add more than a thousand names to the prosopography of those who in some way were involved with writing on Belarus in emigration. The titles in the bibliography–many of them described de visu–provide in themselves important documentation of Slavic and East European publishing and printing outside the homelands. This book will also be an important source for linguists, historians, sociologists of religion, and art historians.

Belarusian Publishing in the West: A Bibliography—Periodicals, Compiled by Zora Kipel and Vitaut Kipel, The New York Public Library Slavic, Baltic, and Eurasian Resource Series, published in cooperation with Belarusian Institute of Arts and Sciences.
xx + 152, 6” x 9”, 0-88354-042-8………………………….$60

      *The companion of this volume, which will be published in Belarus, covers monographic materials. There are approximately 4,500 items listed, including books, pamphlets, proclamations, press releases, documents and other printed collectibles. Materials are arranged chronologically by year of publication, and alphabetically within each year. Entries include author, title, place and date of publication, editor, illustrator, and pagination, as well as short annotations and reference to reviews, if extant. An index of authors' names is provided.