Russian-language periodicals in Toronto: Information sources for immigrants and records for documenting community

Slavic and East European Information Resources

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 57-100

  Dali, Keren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Community studies; Documenting; Ethnic press; Immigrants; Newspapers; Periodicals; Reading; Records; Russian; Toronto

Indexed keywords

EID: 13844257395     PISSN: 15228886     EISSN: 15229041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J167v06n01_07     Document Type: Article

References (94)

1. Richard A. Pierce, "Russians," in Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples, ed. Paul R. Magocsi (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, 1100-1108.
2. Pierce, "Russians," 1104; for more on the history of Kanadskii Gudok and succeeding titles see the same article, pp. 1104-1105.
3. Michael Schatoff, Half a Century of Russian Serials, 1917-1968: Cumulative Index of Serials Published Outside the USSR (New York: Russian Book Chamber Abroad, 1972), 488.
4. Schatoff, Half a Century, 378
5. Ruth Bogusis, Checklist of Canadian Ethnic Serials = Liste des Publications en Série Ethniques du Canada (Ottawa: Newspaper Division, Public Services Branch, 1981), 255-256.
6. Bogusis, Checklist, 258
7. Schatoff, Half a Century, 353.
8. For more on Russian-language periodical publications in Canada see, for example, Schatoff, Half a Century, 488
9. and Bogusis, Checklist, 255-256.
10. Pierce, "Russians," 1105.
11. Elaine Carey, "Toronto: Canada's Linguistic Capital," Toronto Star, 11 December 2002, p. A3.
12. Canada, Statistics Canada, "Census of Canada, 1996: Profile Series: Profile of Census Subdivisions," (Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 1999), http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/cc96/profil96.htm, 13-17 May 2002, CHASS databases (accessed May 17, 2002).
13. Pierce, "Russians," 1103.
14. Walter Andreesen, "New Russian-language periodicals in Berlin," Slavic & East European Information Resources 1, no. 4 (2001): 11.
15. Pierce, "Russians," 1106-1107.
16. Pushkin Private School: http://www.pushkinschool.ca (accessed September 18, 2003)
17. Russian Library & Information Center: http://www.russianlibrary.ca (accessed September 18, 2003) (in both Russian and English).
18. Keren Dali, "From Russia with Books: Readers and Readership in the Russian-Speaking Community in Toronto," Toronto Slavic Quarterly 2 (2002): Par. 6-7, http://www.utoronto.ca/slavic/tsq/02/rusreading.html (accessed August 20, 2003).
19. See, for example, Alexej G. Levinson, "Attitudes of Russians Towards Jews and Their Emigration, 1989-94," in Russian Jews on Three Continents: Migration and Resettlement, ed. N. Lewin-Epstein, Y. Ro'i, and P. Ritterband (London: Frank Cass, 1997), 222-29
20. and Paul Ritterband, "Jewish Identity among Russian Immigrants in the US," in Russian Jews on Three Continents, 325-343
21. also referred to in Dali, "From Russia with Books," par. 7.
22. Armando Petrucci, "Reading to Read: A Future for Reading," in A History of Reading in the West, ed. G. C. a. R. Chartier (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1999), 348.
23. Stephen Lovell, The Russian Reading Revolution: Print Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000), 104.
24. See Lovell, Russian Reading Revolution, 98-127, 141-155
25. and Valeria D. Stelmakh, "Russian Reading in the Period of Social and Cultural Change," International Information & Library Review 27, no. 1 (1995): 7-23.
26. The Europa World Year Book, vol. 43 (London, England: Europa Publications Limited, 2002), 3368
27. neither Public Reports nor Statistical Tables, provided by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, has a total number of periodicals for the years 1997-2001 for the Russian Federation, http://portal.unesco.org/uis/ ev.php?URL_ID=2867&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201 (accessed September 3, 2003).
28. Goskomstat RF, "10: Kultura, otdykh i turizm" ("Culture, Leisure and Tourism"), "10.5: Vypusk knig i broshiur, zhurnalov i gazet" ("Publication of Books and Brochures, Journals and Newspapers"), Goskomstat-Russian Statistical Yearbook, http://www.securities.com/doc.html?pc=RU&doc_id=42792661&print=1 (accessed September 6, 2003), 30 April, 2003, ISI Emerging Markets.
29. Lovell, Russian Reading Revolution, 98-127, 141-155
30. Stelmakh, "Russian Reading in the Period of Social and Cultural Change," 7-23.
31. Catherine Sheldrick Ross, "Finding Without Seeking: The Information Encounter in the Context of Reading for Pleasure," Information Processing & Management 35, no. 6 (1999): 783-799.
32. Ross, "Finding Without Seeking," 784.
33. The questions in the questionnaire were grouped into the following eight sections: Section I: Reading Books for Leisure (Q1-22); Section II: Reading for Professional Development/Studies (Q23-30); Section III: Reading Newspapers/Magazines (Q31-47); Section IV: Public Libraries (Q48-54); Section V: Bookstores (Q55-60); Section VI: Book Collections at Home (Q61-67); Section VII: Subscription (Q68); Section VIII: General (Q69-73). The investigator planned to report the results of the study in a number of consecutive papers. Based on the data collected in Sections I and II, the paper "From Russia with Books" was published in 2002 in the Toronto Slavic Quarterly. The article discusses in detail the advantages and limitations of the survey methodology and the sample, contains the description of the unique cultural and communication behaviors of the Russian-speaking immigrants, and addresses the issue of a common cultural heritage of the former Soviet citizens of various ethnic origins.
34. Based on the data collected in Sections IV, V, and VI, the paper "Reading by Russian-Speaking Immigrants in Toronto: Use of Public Libraries, Bookstores, and Home Book Collections" was written and accepted for publication in International Information & Library Review (forthcoming 2005).
35. The information about free availability and prices of the newspapers is accurate as of August 2002.
36. Dali, "From Russia with Books," par. 7.
37. Beseda was established in 1994 in Toronto; in 2002, the publishing office relocated to Kleinburg, in the GTA. Contact information in the entry is up-to-date, and derived from issue no. 434 (August 22-29, 2003, p. 39). The rest of the information in the entry is accurate as of August 2002. Sample issue: No. 376, July 11-18, 2002; it still has old contact information on the masthead on p. 39.
38. Sample issue: No. 295 (August 9, 2002).
39. Bonus: Weekly Russian Magazine http://localnews.bonus4u.com/magazin/ newcon2-3.jsp (accessed September 18, 2003).
40. Accessed in August 2002, this site was under construction; currently the site is functioning, and it was accessed for evaluation on September 18, 2003.
41. Sample issue: No. 61 (July 28, 2002).
42. Polit[ical]-Balagan (Balagan here: Buffoonery, farce, circus, chaos).
43. Sample print issue: No. 28 (302) (July 12, 2002). Online version accessed for evaluation on August 31, 2002; found functional when accessed on September 18, 2003.
44. The title in Russian reads: Carousel; the parallel title in English reads: Russian Carousel.
45. Seems to have ceased, lapsed, or changed title; however, this could not be verified.
46. Sample print issue: No. 155 (July 10-24, 2002). Website found disabled when accessed on September 17, 2003; accessed successfully on August 30, 2002; the description of the web-version is accurate as of August 30, 2002.
47. Nasha Canada: Bi-Weekly Russian Newspaper http://www.nashacanada.narod.ru/nashacanada_english.htm (accessed September 18, 2003).
48. Sample print issue: No. 14 (30) (July 2002). Online version accessed for evaluation on August 30, 2002; found functional when accessed on September 18, 2003.
49. National Library of Canada, Canadian Ethnic Newspapers Currently Received: Language-Group List, http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/8/16/ r16-205-e.html#R (accessed September 18, 2003).
50. Sample issue: No. 30 (243) (August 1-7, 2002).
51. Russian Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: http://www.rcbcanada.com/ (accessed September 18, 2003).
52. See note 39.
53. Information about the catchment area of Russian Canadian INFO was taken from the website, which was functioning in August 2002 and accessed on August 31, 2002, but is not available anymore. The sample (2002) issue carried the newspaper URL on its masthead; the URL is removed from the masthead in the issue dated August 2003. The description of the online version is accurate as of August 2002. Other information in this entry is derived from the sample issue, no. 216 (16 July 2002), unless otherwise specified.
54. Sample issue: No. 236 (August 16, 2002). Online version accessed for evaluation on August 30, 2002; found functional when accessed on September 17, 2003.
55. This figure is found on the advertising flyer by Newcon Publishing.
56. Thornhill borders Toronto on the north, in the GTA. Sample issue: No. 193 (August 21, 2002).
57. See note 39.
58. Sample issue: No. 192 (4 July 2002). Online version accessed for evaluation on August 21, 2002; found functional when accessed on September 17, 2003.
59. See note 35.
60. Evening Toronto: Independent Russian Pntertainment Almanac: published by Toronto Nights Inc.; the editorial office is located at 1181 Finch Ave. West, Suite 212A, Toronto, ON M2J 2V8.
61. West East (Toronto): Weekly InternPtional Russian Newspaper: published by Toronto Russian Media Group. Ltd.; the editorial office is located at 223 Centre St., Thornhill, ON L4J 1G5.
62. Andreesen, "New Russian-Language Periodicals in Berlin," 19.
63. Andreesen, "New Russian-Language Periodicals in Berlin," 19.
64. Brian Keough, "Documenting Diversity: Developing Special Collections of Underdocumented Groups," Library Collections, Acquisitions & Technical Services 26, no. 3 (2002): 242
65. Richard J Cox, Documenting Localities: A Practical Model for American Archivists and Manuscript Curators (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1996).
66. This notion is discussed in the following papers: Linda Ervin and Ruth Bogusis, "Collections of Ethnic Canadiana at National Library of Canada-Ethnic Serials Project," Serials Librarian 1, no. 4 (1977): 331-36
67. Ivan Basar, "Ethnic Serials in Canada: A Historical Overview." Serials Librarian 26, no. 3-4 (1995): 85-104
68. Sally M. Miller, "Immigrant and Ethnic Newspapers - An Enduring Phenomenon," Serials Librarian 14, no. 1-2 (1988): 135-43
69. Stanley Zybala, "The Ethnic Press in Ontario," Polyphony: The Bulletin of the Multicultural History Society of Ontario 4, no. 1 (1982): 29.
70. Irina Belogortseva, "Do You Speak English? Yes We Do! Zaniatie 376 (Lesson 376)," Beseda, July 11-18, 2002, p. 9.
71. Mark Vinitskii, "The Living Voice: Through Pages of Canadian Poetry," The Yonge Street Review, July 4, 2002, p. 15.
72. Rudolph J. Vecoli, "'Diamonds in Your Own Backyard': Developing Documentation on European Immigrants to North America," Ethnic Forum 1 (1981): 2.
73. Keough, "Documenting Diversity," 241.
74. Only selected occupations are listed because of the large number of them; each occupation appearing in the list is mentioned more than one time in the newspaper ads. The newspapers place ads not only by the Russian-speaking professionals and/or businesses, but also in the Russian language by any interested organization or individual. However, only the occupations of the Russian-speaking Torontonians are taken into consideration in the list. Both professions (e.g., dentist) and businesses (e.g., flower sales) are listed intermittently.
75. Events found in the randomly chosen issue of the newspaper are not the most important benchmarks in the development of the Russian-speaking community; however, they are an indication of the community's daily pulse.
76. Andrea Hinding, "Toward Documentation: New Collecting Strategies," in Options for the 80s: Proceedings of the Second National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, ed. Michael D. Kathman and Virgil F. Massman (Greenwich: JAI Press, 1982), 535-537
77. quoted in Keough, "Documenting Diversity," 243.
78. Based on Howard Zinn, "Secrecy, Archives, and the Public Interest," Midwestern Archivist 2; Proceedings of the Society of American Archivists Annual Conference, 1970 (Chicago: Midwest Archives Conference, 1977)
79. Gould Colman, "Forum: Communication from Its Members," American Archivist 36 (1973): 484
80. and F. Gerald Ham, "The Archival Edge," American Archivist 38 (1975), quoted in Keough, "Documenting Diversity," 242.
81. Lena Sorokina, "Balalaika for Canadians," Russkii Ekspress, 19 July 2002, p. 12
82. Evelina Azaeva, "'All Day Long I Am Styling Women': A Conversation in a Hair Dresser's Chair," Russkii Ekspress, 16 August 2002, p. 17.
83. Vecoli, "'Diamonds in Your Own Backyard,'" 2-16.
84. Arkadii Tiurin, "Hostages of Greediness," Russian Canadian INFO, 16 July 2002, p. 3
85. Leonid Shik, "Rules of the Game," Nasha Canada, no. 14 (30), July 2002, p. 2
86. Dinara Aslamova, "Like an Iceberg in the Ocean..." Nasha Canada, no. 14 (30), July 2002, p. 12.
87. See, for example, Igor' Semenovich Kon, The Sexual Revolution in Russia: From the Age of the Czars to Today (New York: The Free Press, 1995).
88. Pierce, "Russians," 1106-1107.
89. Lovell, Russian Reading Revolution, 98.
90. The document type, circulation, and subjects of English-language journals/magazines are determined based on Ulrich's Periodical Directory: http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb/ (accessed September 25, 2003).
91. For instance, respondents list other consumer and trade publications aimed at more specialized readerships, such as National Geographic (consumer; geography); Psychology Today (consumer; psychology and social sciences); Cosmopolitan (consumer; women's interest); Scientific American (consumer/academic/scholarly; sciences); Today's Parent (consumer; about children and youth); Fortune (consumer; business and economics); Computer Gaming World (consumer; computers); PC World (consumer; computers); Window & Wall Ideas (consumer; interior design and decoration); Guitar Player (consumer; music); Style: Canada's Fashion News (trade; clothing trade and fashion) (based on Ulrich's).
92. Characteristics of the following publications are based on information provided in Spravochnik "Rossiiskaia pressa" (Russian Press: Guide): allpress.souzpechat.ru/index.php?Topic=directory.php& L1=30&L2=0 (accessed September 25, 2003): Ogonek (general interest magazine); Znanie (Knowledge), Znak voprosa (Question Mark), and Iunyi naturalist (Young Naturalist) (popular-scientific magazines/journals; the last one, for young readers); Novyi mir (New World) and Znamia (The Banner) (popular literary journals); Burda (in Russian) (fashion for women and men).
93. Zybala, "The Ethnic Press in Ontario," 7.
94. Andreesen, "New Russian-Language Periodicals in Berlin," 20.