The Research Quest: One Junior Fellow’s Journey through the Library of Congress
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
Junior Fellow in the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress describes her research.
Posted in: Hispanic Reading Room, Interns, Junior Fellows
Archive: August 2019 (3 Posts)
Stargazing: Yiddish Theater and Hebrew Calendars Come Together in the Library of Congress
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
Two Junior Fellows discuss the displays of the Hebrew calendars and American Yiddish Theater collections that they prepared for the Junior Fellows Display at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Hebraic Section
A Handbook for 18th-Century Country Living: Andrei Bolotov’s “Ekonomicheskoi magazin” (Economic Storehouse)
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
(Guest post by Christine Ruane, Professor Emerita of History, University of Tulsa) Tucked away in the stacks of the Library of Congress’ Rare Book Division are 40 small, leather-bound volumes of an 18th-century Russian periodical entitled “Ekonomicheskoi magazin””(Economic storehouse). Each book consists of 400 pages of what was then the latest scientific advice on how …
Posted in: European Reading Room