Articles by Ksenya Kiebuzinski
Presenting the Carpathians: The Visual Economy of Juliusz Dutkiewicz’s Photographs
Euxeinos, 2024
Juliusz Dutkiewicz (1834-1908) was an ethnographic and mountaineering photographer of the greater... more Juliusz Dutkiewicz (1834-1908) was an ethnographic and mountaineering photographer of the greater Pokuttia region and its people. His images captured the interest of a bourgeoning circle of scholars who were eager to describe and promote the Carpathian Mountains, and the region’s diverse ethnographic communities, for imperial, urban, and/or national readers and tourists. Dutkiewicz’s photographs served as ethnographic sources and sightseeing souvenirs. The considerable circulation, dissemination and imitation of this photographer’s images throughout the turn of the 20th century helped create the visual idea of the Carpathians across Europe.
Central and Eastern European Studies
Handbook for European Studies Librarians, 2024
Overview of key resources for collection development and guidance on working with vendors, publis... more Overview of key resources for collection development and guidance on working with vendors, publishers, and organizations from East-Central Europe.
Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi, 2023
This article describes a collection of rare Polonica, numbering over five hundred books, pamphlet... more This article describes a collection of rare Polonica, numbering over five hundred books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and prints and engravings, donated to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in 2001 by Karol Godlewski and his family. The donor’s uncle, Count Emeryk Hutten Czapski (1897–1979), assembled the extraordinary collection. The material includes works written, edited, or translated by Polish authors. The publication dates range from 1505 to the mid-1970s, with two hundred titles predating 1801. The subject matter ranges from texts written by Terence and Plutarch to biographies of Polish kings, details of famous battles, and poetry. There are also etchings of Polish personages, palaces, landscapes, or battle scenes, many of artistic importance.
Libraries around the world are helping safeguard Ukrainian books and culture
The Conversation, 2022
Le Porche: Bulletin des Amis de Jeanne d’Arc et de Charles Péguy , 2021
Article about the translation, adaptation, publication, and reception of Marko Vovchok's story "M... more Article about the translation, adaptation, publication, and reception of Marko Vovchok's story "Maroussia" by Pierre-Jules Hetzel in France in 1878.
As libraries go digital, paper books still have a lot to offer us
The Conversation, 2020
Ukraina moderna, 2020
The University of Toronto Libraries launched the online collection War and Revolution in Ukraine,... more The University of Toronto Libraries launched the online collection War and Revolution in Ukraine, 1914−1923, to mark the centenary of the First World War and the Ukrainian Revolution. The Petro Jacyk Central and East European Resource Centre organized this digital project, selecting pamphlets, books, and periodicals held in the Andry Zhuk Collection and the John Luczkiw Ukrainian Canadian Collection at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, as well as documents in the general holdings of the John P. Robarts Research Library, the University's main humanities and social sciences library. This article provides an overview of the online collection on War and Revolution in Ukraine, which includes approximately three hundred titles. The majority of the content dates between 1914 and 1922-23, that is from the start of the First World War to the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the incorporation of Eastern Galicia into Poland. The pamphlets, periodicals, and books were printed in multiple languages in various major cities in Ukraine and Europe. The online content ranges from political party platforms, programs, and speeches to eyewitness accounts, memoirs and regimental histories, associated with military service in the First World War and its revolutionary aftermath. Other publications provide overviews of the "Ukrainian question" within the context of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires. The digitized titles also include a broad literary selection of original plays about insurgent movements and revolution, as well as collections of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen songs and poetry written by Ukrainian prisoners of war. Researchers also have access to several important and rare serials.
Slavic and East European Collections at the University of Toronto Library: From the Great Fire to the Deep Freeze, 1890−1948
Slavic & East European Information Resources , 2020
This article explores the history of the Slavic and East European collection at the University of... more This article explores the history of the Slavic and East European collection at the University of Toronto Libraries from the great fire of 1890 to the beginning of the Cold War. The author contextualizes the history in relation to the development of Russian studies at the University, and the creation of a formal program of Slavic studies in 1949. Particular emphasis is placed on gifts and bequests of library material.
A Jubilee Collection: Essays in Honor of Professor Paul Robert Magocsi on His 70th Birthday, ed. Valerii Padiak, Patricia A. Krafcik, 2015
The article traces the history of a Carpathian band of brigands (opryshky) led by the Drahiruk br... more The article traces the history of a Carpathian band of brigands (opryshky) led by the Drahiruk brothers (Jura and Mikolaj), and the uses of oral history and photography to document them.
Dancing the Kolomyika at the Opéra-Comique: Léo Delibes's Galician Opera "Kassya"
Austrian History Yearbook, 2015
In the spring 1893, the following statement appeared in a theater review in one of the Parisian d... more In the spring 1893, the following statement appeared in a theater review in one of the Parisian dailies: “Mais, dans ce diable de pays de Galicie, on n'est jamais tranquille et il faut toujours craindre pour le lendemain [But, in this hell of a land Galicia, it's never quiet, and one must always fear for tomorrow].” These words were written in response to the first, and perhaps the only, opera produced in Western Europe about the Austrian province of Galicia. The work's plot centered on a love triangle between a count, a gypsy girl, and a peasant, and was set against the historical backdrop of the Galician peasant uprising of 1846. The opera in question, Kassya, was the swan song of French composer Léo Delibes, written after a trip he took to Hungary and Austrian Galicia. The critic who penned the above words, Georges Street, certainly knew something about intrigue and conspiracy within the Austrian Empire. He was the grandson of Metternich's master spy, Georg Klindworth, and the son of Agnes Street-Klindworth, who gathered intelligence for her father about refugees of the 1848 upheavals living in Weimar. Delibes's opera and Street's biography interconnect only circumstantially—the former composed the music to Kassya; the latter attended a performance and wrote a review—yet this coincidence suggests an interesting avenue for investigation regarding French contacts with East Central Europe.
Ukraïna XX stolittia: kultura, ideolohiia, polityka: zbirnyk statei, 2015
Leopold Sacher-Masoch gained wide recognition in France following the publication of "Don Juan de... more Leopold Sacher-Masoch gained wide recognition in France following the publication of "Don Juan de Kolomea" in the preeminent journal Revue des Deux Mondes in 1872. Most of his novellas were translated into French, and a number of the translations came out in several editions, such as "Le legs de Cain" and "Le cabinet noir de Lemberg." This article addresses a number of questions raised by the enthusiastic reception that Sacher-Masoch's oeuvre received in France, by examining how and by whom the works were translated, who published them, and the extent of their critical reception in French journals and newspapers. Additionally, the author considers Sacher-Masoch's personal contacts in France and with its intellectual elites, and what influence, if any, he and his works brought to bear on their understanding of Austrian Galicia and its inhabitants, particularly of Rusyns (Ukrainians).
Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 2014
This article examines how late nineteenth-century French censorship policies contributed to the s... more This article examines how late nineteenth-century French censorship policies contributed to the suppression of Ukrainian culture at a time when Russian authorities were launching their own offensives against the Ukrainian language. The French sought to limit public expression on Ukraine to help secure a military alliance with Russia.
Samizdat and Dissident Archives: Trends in Their Acquisition, Preservation, and Access in North American Repositories
Slavic & East European Information Resources, 2012
This article surveys the way dissident movements from the Soviet era have been documented in Nort... more This article surveys the way dissident movements from the Soviet era have been documented in North American archives and libraries. It first presents the challenges involved in acquiring, preserving, and making accessible samizdat and other underground publications, as well as archival documents and personal papers of those organizations and individuals involved in dissident activities from the 1950s to the 1980s. A brief overview follows of the more significant samizdat and dissident collections, and of efforts to preserve Solidarity material, succeeded by a summary of issues involved in metadata creation for samizdat material. The article is supplemented by a selected listing of samizdat and archival dissident collections held in North American repositories.
The (Re)Fashioning of an Archetype of Genius: Ivan Mazepa in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Art
Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 2009
Vampirettes, Wretches, and Amazons: Western Representations of East European Women, 2004
Essay about how 19th-century French schoolchildren's ultimate image of Joan of Arc was inspired b... more Essay about how 19th-century French schoolchildren's ultimate image of Joan of Arc was inspired by Marko Vovchok's Ukrainian girl heroine Marusia (Maroussia).
Kyivska starovyna, 2001
The values of heroism, patriotism, and virtue were promoted following French defeat at Sedan in 1... more The values of heroism, patriotism, and virtue were promoted following French defeat at Sedan in 1870, and the subsequent annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany in 1871, by many writers who responded to the shock and humiliation of defeat by composing patriot works infused with a spirit of revanchism. One such work was the play L'Hetman by Paul Deroulede, staged at the Odeon in 1877, about seventeenth-century Ukrainian Cossacks fighting their Polish oppressors.
The play takes place sometime in the 1640s, during the reign of King Wladyslaw IV. Historically, it suggests the events that took place from 1646 to 1648 on the eve of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi’s uprising which turned into a war of the Ukrainian populace against the Polish Commonwealth. The war between Ukrainians and Poles really served as a pretext for Deroulede. The play’s action was meant to lead audiences to see similarities with their situation in France and Alsace vis-a-vis Germany. Besides the play’s patriotic intent, L’Hetman also communicated Deroulede’s veiled condemnation of parliamentarianism. The adversarial and mutinous dialogues between the Cossacks and their hetman during the council of war, as well as those between the Diet and their Polish King, represent parliamentary politics in France following the constitutional arrangement of 1875 that favored parliamentary over presidential powers. The work also shows Deroulede's nascent support for a future Franco-Russian alliance by representing a strong Ukraine in opposition to Poland.
Books by Ksenya Kiebuzinski
Paul Robert Magocsi: A Bibliography and Commentaries
Fourth Revised and Expanded Edition
After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, executed a st... more After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, executed a staggering number of political prisoners in Western Ukraine-somewhere between 10,000 and 40,000-in the space of eight days, in one of the greatest atrocities perpetrated by the Soviet state. Yet the Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941 is largely unknown. This sourcebook aims to change that, offering detailed scholarly analysis, eyewitness testimonies and profiles of known victims, and a selection of fiction, memoirs, and poetry that testifies to the lasting impact of the massacre in the collective memory of Ukrainians.
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Articles by Ksenya Kiebuzinski
The play takes place sometime in the 1640s, during the reign of King Wladyslaw IV. Historically, it suggests the events that took place from 1646 to 1648 on the eve of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi’s uprising which turned into a war of the Ukrainian populace against the Polish Commonwealth. The war between Ukrainians and Poles really served as a pretext for Deroulede. The play’s action was meant to lead audiences to see similarities with their situation in France and Alsace vis-a-vis Germany. Besides the play’s patriotic intent, L’Hetman also communicated Deroulede’s veiled condemnation of parliamentarianism. The adversarial and mutinous dialogues between the Cossacks and their hetman during the council of war, as well as those between the Diet and their Polish King, represent parliamentary politics in France following the constitutional arrangement of 1875 that favored parliamentary over presidential powers. The work also shows Deroulede's nascent support for a future Franco-Russian alliance by representing a strong Ukraine in opposition to Poland.
Books by Ksenya Kiebuzinski