 HURI
is proud to announce the publication of Volume X of
the Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature, The
Povest' vremennykh let: An Interlinear Collation and
Paradosis, edited and collated by Donald Ostrowski,
with David Birnbaum and Horace G. Lunt. The Tale
of Bygone Years (Povest' vremennykh let) is the
most important source for the history of early Rus'.
Full of stories of grand princes and saints, monks
and knightly retinues, this chronicle compilation has
been the bedrock of modern interpretations of the history,
ethos, and religious traditions of Ukrainians, Russians,
and Belarusians alike. It has also been a source of
controversy, with competing redactions and interpretations
of the Old East Slavic language in which it was written.
Ostrowski's massive undertaking provides scholars and
general readers with the five oldest redactions, three
more modern redactions, three later interpolations,
and his own final interpretation of the Povest'.
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A History of HURI Publications: Publishing in Ukrainian
studies began at Harvard in 1968, with the inception of the
Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies. With the founding of the
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard, this publishing
program was broadened to include the journal Harvard
Ukrainian Studies, and a more diverse monograph publishing
program. In recognition of the Millennium of Christianity in
Rus'-Ukraine, a program was initiated that resulted in the Harvard
Library of Early Ukrainian Literature, which publishes
both facsimile and translation works from early and middle
Ukrainian literature. The overall publications program now
includes five monograph series, the journal, booklets and pamphlets,
and online resources. Since its inception, Ukrainian studies
publishing at Harvard has been made possible by generous donations
from private individuals, whom we gratefully acknowledge.
HURI's publications program is conducted
at the high standard of scholarship and editing that one
would expect from Harvard. Our books are distributed by Harvard
University Press and reviewed internationally. In 2000,
HURI authors won four international and national prizes,
including the Milewski Prize (Poland, to Moshe Rosman with
special mention of The Lords' Jews), the PEN America
2000 Poetry-in-Translation Prize and the American Association
for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize (to James Brasfield
and Oleh Lysheha for The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha),
and the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Book
Prize (to Borys Gudziak, for Crisis and Reform).
Other prizes in past years have included several Halecki
Prizes (to Andrzej Kaminski and Timothy Snyder), an AAUS
Book Prize (to Oleh Ilnytzkyj), and national prizes for
design and manufacture (for overall series design and manufacture
design of the mapset for Beauplan's Description of Ukraine).
Three HURI Books (Odessa, Crisis and Reform, and Kistiakovsky)
appeared in Ukrainian in the past year. The Lords' Jews was
published in Polish translation through the Milewski Foundation.
The publications program collaborates with other centers
at Harvard University and elsewhere, with partners as diverse
as the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University and
the Institute for Oriental Studies in Kyiv. The program has
an ongoing collaboration with Krytyka Press, a non-profit
scholarly press in Kyiv that publishes the intellectual journal Krytyka and
scholarly books for the Ukrainian market. The program also
acts as the formal United States representative for the Canadian
Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) Press, which is based
in Toronto.
HURI Publications also conducts extensive exchanges with
Ukrainian studies institutions around the world. This affords
the entry of works on Ukraine from these places into the
general library collection of Harvard University, which might
otherwise not be possible through commercial distribution
avenues. HURI Publications has become the major Ukrainian
studies publisher in the U.S., and provides editorial and
intellectual standards for the conduct of Ukrainian studies
internationally. We welcome inquiries from the general public.
Submission information can be found in our style book/submissions
guideline, which can
be obtained in a PDF file.
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