THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC INDEX TO THE THEME “HISTORY OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF UKRAINE IN THE 19TH – EARLY 20TH CENTURY”: ON MATERIALS OF THE STOCK COLLECTION AND THE SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF UKRAINIAN HISTORY

Abstract

The article deals with a bibliographic index as one of the most important tools for publishing bibliography and historiography on the theme “History of the Jewish community of Ukraine of XIX –early XX centuries”, which is based on thematic unity of documents of the National Museum of Ukrainian History’s collection and its library. It is emphasized that making of the bibliographic indexes is relevant for the modern museum, which has a scientific library as well as considerable volume of documentary funds, primarily books. It is also emphasized that books that are museum objects today have a prospect for publication, mainly in exhibition catalogues or inventories. The authors notice that an exhibition catalogue usually depicts the book mostly as an object of material culture but not as the source of bibliography and content analysis. It is summarized that inventory is made for different objects of a thematic collection and therefore cannot be considered as an analogue of the bibliographic index or guide to archival funds. It is concluded that making of the commented bibliographic index for any museum theme is relevant, as it is one of the results of the study on the collection, the library, and historiography and archival sources. The authors of the article take into account the informal requirement of “de visu”. Key words: bibliographic index, inventory, the National Museum of Ukrainian History, museum library, history of the Jewish community, Judaica.