CLA: IHRC Updates

Edited by Ieva Zake, newly published Anti-Communist Minorities in the U.S., Political Activism of Ethnic Refugees references materials in the IHRC and presents the little known history of anti-Communism and the Cold War in the U.S. from the point of view of émigrés from Eastern and Central Europe, Asia, and Cuba.

To these minorities, anti-Communism was and still is a crucial part of their ethnic identity and a resource for mobilizing the community. Through compelling case studies, we learn why these minorities have persisted in their anti-Communist struggles, and what have been the successes and failures of their activism. The book also introduces a useful comparative framework for understanding the uniqueness of the political refugees' experience. More information and order form.

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New America Media, the nation's first and largest collaboration of ethnic news organizations, honored Lou Ann Matossian, an editor of the Armenian Reporter, at the 2009 National Ethnic Media Expo & Awards in June for excellence in international affairs reporting. Matossian has a long association with the IHRC and currently serves on the Collections Advisory Council.

Hillary Rodham Clinton has called the NAM Awards "the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize" for ethnic media. Representing more than 2,500 ethnic news organizations, the NAM Expo is the largest convening of ethnic media in the United States. Matossian is Eastern U.S. Community News Editor for the Armenian Reporter.

Matossian was named runner-up in the International Affairs category for her two-part reporting on the Institute of Turkish Studies scandal, a story she broke in the Armenian Reporter and which was later covered by the Huffington Post, Hatewatch, Inside Higher Ed, Znet, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education, and London Review of Books.

ITS Board Chairperson Donald Quataert, who stepped down in December 2006 after he acknowledged the Armenian Genocide in a book review, allegedly was forced to resign under pressure from the Turkish Embassy, which denied the charges. Several other ITS board members resigned in protest, citing concerns about academic freedom, according to the Armenian Reporter's coverage.

A list of winners of NAM awards is available. For more details on the award, visit newamericamedia.org.

Matossian has represented the Armenian Cultural Organization of Minnesota on the Friends of the IHRC Board and served as vice president of the Friends of IHRC. In addition to being a member of the Collections Advisory Council, she is an active researcher in the IHRC collections. Her research has focused on the migration and settlement history of Armenians in Minnesota since 1899, as well as the Minnesota missionaries who served in Ottoman Turkey from the American Civil War through the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923.

We congratulate you on this award!

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A new web display featuring the Papers of Edmund Valtman (1914-2005) from the Center's archival holdings is available for viewing. Valtman, born in Estonia, was a cartoonist who immigrated to the U.S. in 1949, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1962. More...

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The IHRC is pleased to announce that a multi-year project to catalog ethnic newspapers in the Center's collections has successfully concluded. Technical Services staff of the University of Minnesota Libraries finalized on July 2, 2009, cataloging entries for the IHRC's holdings of 46 Greek through Ukrainian titles.

Several years ago, the project began with cataloging of newspapers in General through Finnish categories. The current portion of the project was led in spring and summer 2009 by Cecilia Genereux of the University Libraries. Laureen Boutang of University Libraries served as primary cataloger, assisted by student workers. Halyna Myroniuk, senior curatorial assistant for the IHRC, served as the IHRC coordinator.

Patrons can now search for all IHRC newspapers through MNCat, the University Libraries' print catalog, to accurately locate materials held by the IHRC. The newspapers that were cataloged are non-circulating and are available for use in the Elmer L. Andersen Library reading room, through arrangement with IHRC staff.

The titles included Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Near Eastern, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian and Ukrainian publications.

The complete list of newspaper titles cataloged in this collaborative project includes:

America (Cleveland, Ohio : 1905)
America oggi.
Amerikai Magyarság.
Amerikanski srbobran.
Ameryka (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Am-Pol eagle.
Bayrūt tāymz =Beirut times.
Credinta =The Faith.
Cuvântul românesc =The Romanian voice.
Draugus
Ē phōnē =the Hellenic voice.
Ellēnikē phonē =Hellenic voice
Ellēnikos astēr =The Greek star.
Fra noi =among us.
Gazzetta del Massachusetts (Boston, Mass. : 1949)
Gazzetta del Massachusettsthe ambassador.
Gazzetta Italiana (Hudson, Ohio)
Gazzetta Italiana (Seattle, Wash.)
Gwiazda polarna.
Hellenic voice (Natick, Mass.)
Hellēnikos typos =Saloniki-Greek press.
Il Pensiero =The Thought.
Italian-American digest.
Kanadai magyarság =Canadian Hungarians.
Kanadai/Amerikai magyarság.
Kanadský Slovák =The Canadian Slovak.
La Voce Italiana =The Italian voice.
Laiks (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y. : 1949)
Makedonska tribuna =Macedonian tribune.
Meta =The goal = Das Ziel = Le but.
Naród polski =Polish nation.
Narodna voli︠a︡ (Scranton, Pa.)
Naše slovensko.
Nova zori︠a︡ (Chicago, Ill.)
Novoe russkoe slovo =New Russian word.
Novyĭ shli︠a︡kh =The New pathway = Le Nouveau chemin.
Nowy dziennik =Polish daily news.
OSIA news
Our voice (Cleveland, Ohio : 1959)
Pol Am journal (Scranton, Pa. : Chicago ed.)
Pol Am journal (Scranton, Pa. : National ed.)
Pol Am journal (Scranton, Pa. : Polish National Alliance of Brooklyn, U.S.A. ed.)
Pol-Am journal (Scranton, Pa. : Association of the Sons of Poland ed.)
Polish American journal (Buffalo, N.Y. : Polish National Alliance of Brooklyn, U.S.A. ed.)
Polish American journal (Scranton, Pa. : 1948)
Post eagle.
Post-gazette (Boston, Mass.)
Prosveta (Chicago, Ill.)
Slovák v Amerike =Slovak American.
Straż =The Guard.
Svoboda (Jersey City, N.J.)
Tėviškės žiburiai =The lights of homeland.
The GreekAmerican.
The Ukrainian weekly.
Ukraïnsʹki shchodenni visti =Ukrainain daily news.
Ukraïnsʹki visti =The Ukrainian news.
Zgoda.

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