Collection includes material from the former Yugoslavia and other countries of the Balkans collected by the Donor between the 1950s and 2007.
Halpern, Joel M. (Joel Martin)Scanned copies of 31 of Joel Halpern's publications on the Balkans, Yugoslavia, and Serbia from 1938 through 1996
in Program in Soviet and East European Studies Occasional Papers, Series No. 21, 1989, pp. 1-9.
in Program in Soviet and East European Studies occasional papers, Series No. 20, 1989, pp. 1-18.
Photographs from the Obrebski collection. Printed Inventory of the Indices Spyfiles: content of the Indices Spyfiles: correspondence with Yugoslavian officials (1 page)
Finding aid for the collection at the Folklife Center, The Library of Congress
Electronic copies of 62 of Joel Halpern’s publications
Electronic copies of 104 of Joel Halpern’s publications, grants, fieldnotes, and book reviews
Video file (SCN format) presenting the episode We Want Our Children Back of the network ABC about the problem of an Albanian Moslem family in Texas; Barbara Halpern is interviewed as an expert on Albanian culture.
Electronic copies of 147 of Joel Halpern’s grant applications, notes, fieldwork, and correspondence
Electronic copies of 20 of Joel Halpern’s indices and documents
Joel Halpern’s photographs from Orašac (September-October 2006); Print inventory of the photographs ( 2 pages).
Photos from Orašac; Orašac database photographs; scanned publications of J.M. Halpern; interviews with Dragana Adamović, Ruica Kostić, Kolarević, and Dragovan Radovanović; “DVD preparation”.
2 working drafts and the final version
A series of photographs in electronic format on CDs referred to by the donor as “Orašac 2006” taken by him and by his assistants from Graz (image files in JPG format)
Field interviews - 1 DVD; 2 pages of a catalogue to Disk 4 with the description of 44 audio recordings [26 hours] of Halpern’s interviews in Orašac between 1966 and 1986, mainly with the members of the Stojanović family and their close relatives, and 38 transcripts of those interviews. Also, 120 audio recordings of non-transcribed interviews conducted by Halpern in Orašac and surrounding areas between 1966 and 1986.
Uncaptioned black and white and colour photographs (files from 1_002 through w864); text files in MS Access format
Colour photographs (files from IMG_0001 through IMG_0600; from IMG_9215 through IMG_9900)
Uncaptioned colour photographs (files from IMG_9215 through IMG_9900, and from IMG_0601 through IMG_0871)
Uncaptioned photographs (files from IMG_0872 through IMG_1167)
Contents as described by Joel Halpern: interviews by Joel Halpern with Kostić, Radanović, Adamović, Kolarević, the Stojanović couple, and with the local council office; photographs of the graveyard; graveyard video clips; scanned demographic data; field notes; MS power point presentation; film commentary; published reviews; reports; captions for the Photographs Database - 1 DVD; “Main Catalogue” with descriptions of audio, video, photographic, and written materials contained on Disks 1 and 2 (2 pages).
Video materials regarding the promotion of the book Serbian Village in Belgrade (October 2006);
Photographs database (files from 1_002 through w864); Orašac 2006 catalogue with descriptions of materials
Compiled by Robert Ciski, 1975
The Polish Review, Vol. XIII, No.2, 1968, pp. 97-99
Compiled by Halina W. Rothstein, 1983
Inventory
Container list
Preliminary inventory compiled by Oksana Grabowicz, 1974, with additions by Archives Staff, 1983
Inventory with captions. Referred to by J. Halpern as [Box 53-57]
Research Report No.16, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, 1977
“Published Material” and Container list of published materials by J. Halpern and others from 1929 through 1982
Black and white photographs taken mainly in Labunište in 1962, with handwritten captions: I folder: Labunište, 45 photographs, from 210A through 254A; II folder: Labunište, 45 photographs, from 255A through 299A; III folder: Labunište, 45 photographs, from 300A through 344A; IV folder: Labunište, 45 photographs, from 345A through 389A; V folder: Labunište, 51 photographs, from 390A through 440A; VI folder: Globočica, Macedonia, 15 photographs, from 441A through 455A; Ščočivir, Macedonia, 3 photographs, from 456A through 458A; Labunište and Velešte, 16 unnumbered photographs.
Inventory of 851 slides and photographs taken in Labunište and Velešte in1962. Named by Joel Halpern as “Obrebski’s archive”
Photocopies of photographs taken in Labunište in 1962; Inventory of scanned slides from Macedonia (some with captions). Named by Joel Halpern as “Obrebski’s archive.”
Black and white photographs with handwritten and typed captions (photographs taken in the village of Bukovica, District of abljak, Montenegro in 1962: I folder: general view, vignettes, and transportation, 39 photographs, from Buk001 through Buk041;
II folder: house types, construction details, animal shelters, agriculture, and haying, 46 photographs, from Buk042 through Buk090;
III folder: market scenes, household chores, and vašar in abljak, 45 photographs, from Buk091 through Buk135; IV folder: vašar in abljak and weddings, 45 photographs, from Buk136 through Buk179; V folder: weddings, 45 photographs, from Buk180 through Buk225; VI folder: weddings, “Djurdjevdan,” “Zadušnica,” funeral, graveyard, and gypsy, 45 photographs, from Buk226 through Buk270; VII folder: random photographs, 27, presenting graveyard, gypsy, and commemorative fair, from Buk271 through Buk291
Photocopies of 50 photographs sent to the Smithsonian’s
Black and white photographs with handwritten captions and colour postcards, presenting Maglaj and the surrounding areas, Bosnia. The time span is from the end of the 19th century through the 1960s. These photographs were purchased by J. Halpern at the Zemaljski Muzej in upča, Bosnia in 1964: I folder: Doboj, Maglaj, and epče, 35 photographs, from Bosnia001 through Bosnia 035; II folder: Maglaj and surrounding areas, 42 photographs, from Bosnia036 through Bosnia 077; III folder: Maglaj and surrounding areas, 33 photographs, from Bosnia078 through Bosnia110; IV folder: Maglaj and surrounding areas, special events: “Duhovi,” weddings, funerals, “vojnik-delegat,” 20 photographs, from Bosnia111 through Bosnia130; V folder: everyday life in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 53 photographs, no dates.
Villages: Bobovac, Lekenik, Orašac, Arandjelovac, Šenčur, Garaši, Telovik, Varoš Vrbica, Slovik, Vupasov, Plaskovac, Četvrtkovac, Stupnik, Bukovik, Topola, Vrbica, Banja, Kopljare, Stojnik, Belosavci, Svetice, Dubrovnik
Ph.D. Thesis by D.B. Rheubottom. The University of Rochester, 1971
A Finding aid for the Joel and Barbara K. Halpern’s archival collection at the University of Massachusetts (60 pages)
Electronic copies of black and white photographs;
Photographs from Croatia, Macedonia, and Bosnia taken in circa 1954; inventory (1 page) of the places where they were taken (Orašac, Dalmatia, Korčula, Hvar, Trogir, Bogojevo, Kaštel Stari, Split, Dubrovnik, Konavlje, Boka Kotorska, Varadin, Nedelešće, Zagorje, Skopska Blatija, Jajce, Banja Luka, Ljubočice, Perhatilja)
Includes image inventory
Files from 2_200 through 3_007; includes image inventory
Collection from the Vojvodjanski Muzej, Novi Sad. The original photographs, dated circa World War One (1914-1918), are at the University of Graz, Austria (files from 3_008 through 3_172). Includes image inventory
Collection from the Vojvodjanski Muzej, Novi Sad. The original photographs, dated circa World War One (1914-1918), are at the University of Graz, Austria (files from 3_173 through 4_052). Includes image inventory
Collection from the Vojvodjanski Muzej, Novi Sad. The original photographs, dated circa World War One (1914-1918), are at the University of Graz, Austria (files from 4_053 through 4_192) . Includes image inventory
Collection from the Vojvodjanski Muzej, Novi Sad. The original photographs, dated circa World War One (1914-1918), are at the University of Graz, Austria (files from 4_193 through 5_159). Includes image inventory
Includes image inventory
Files from 48_001A through 48_065B; image files inventory; photocopied pages of handwritten descriptions of the photographs
Files from 48_066A through 48_091C from 1973; 67_088A through 67_099C from 1978); image file inventory; photocopied pages of handwritten descriptions of the photographs
Electronic copies of photographs taken in 1954 in Arandjelovac (07_24 through 08_18) and Ohrid, Macedonia (11_16a through 11_92) – includes image file inventory.
Electronic copies of colour and black and white photographs with captions taken between 1954 and 1974 in Kosovo (48_092A through 48_099C), Macedonia (19_087a through 19_150b), and Montenegro (1954_001 through 1954_099); includes image files inventory and photocopied pages of handwritten descriptions of the photographs.
Electronic copies of photographs taken in 1979 in Kosovo, Struga, and Trvešvo (48_100A through 48_150), and Macedonia (49_001A through 49_010); includes image files inventory and 4 photocopied pages of handwritten descriptions of the photographs.