George Sabo Explained

George Sabo (January 18, 1896 – February 15, 1983) was a Slovak-born American publisher and book dealer specializing in Slavic-language materials.

Biography

Sabo was born in Orechova, Slovakia and immigrated to New York in July 1913.[1] Sabo was inspired to become a book dealer as a child when his father took him to Julij Feldesi's bookstore.[2] He became a naturalized American citizen in April 1926.

In 1936, Sabo began his work as a book dealer with the purchase of 18,000 Russian books. With John M. Constantinoff and Israel Perlstein, Sabo is considered to be "well-established in the historiography of the Russian antiquarian book in New York".[3] One of his clients was Russian bibliophile Andrey Avinoff.[4] Another important client was Paul M. Fekula, whose collection of Slavica was the largest assembled by an individual in the United States.[5] Sabo also contributed Slavic books to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, helping the University develop the largest Slavic collection west of the Mississippi by the 1970s.[6] In addition to his work as a book dealer, Sabo was also involved in the publication of Rusyn books and periodicals.[7] Until the 1950s, Sabo's publishing house was one of the two largest sources of Rusyn-American literature.[8] He also served as Secretary of the Supreme Tribunal of the Greek Catholic Union. Sabo later moved to Melbourne, Florida, where he continued his business under the name Slavic Books.[9]

After his death, the majority of his 16,000 book collection was acquired by Sterling C. Evans Library at Texas A & M University.[10] An additional 432 books from his collection were donated to Seton Hall University Library in 2012.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. Chroust . David . 2022-04-03 . A Rusyn-American Life in Books: George Sabo in New York and Florida . Slavic & East European Information Resources . en . 23 . 1-2 . 183–207 . 10.1080/15228886.2021.1985708 . 1522-8886.
  2. “Bro. George Sabo and His 40 Years in Buying and Selling Books on Carpatho-Russians and Other Slav People" . Jubilee Almanac of the Greek Catholic Union of the USA . 2024-05-18 . 2024-05-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240518034548/https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:31735051652331/viewer#page/266/mode/2up . live .
  3. Kasinec . Edward . 2006 . Russian Imperial and Elite Provenance Books: Their Afterlife in Post-World War II New York . Solanus . 20.
  4. Regina . Kristen A. . 2012 . The Bibliophile Andrei Avinoff: Additional Information Regarding Soviet Book Sales of the Interwar Period (1917–1937) . Slavic & East European Information Resources . en . 13 . 2-3 . 160–165 . 10.1080/15228886.2012.688188 . 1522-8886 . 2024-05-22 . 2024-04-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240417002813/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15228886.2012.688188 . live .
  5. Book: Struminskyj, Bohdan . The Millennium Collection of Old Ukrainian Books at the University of Toronto Library: A Catalogue . Kasinec . Edward . 1984 . University of Toronto . 0772751056 . viii.
  6. Davis . Robert H. . 2003 . The New York Public Library's Émigré Readership and Collections: Past, Present, and Future . Slavic & East European Information Resources . en . 4 . 4 . 63–75 . 10.1300/J167v04n04_06 . 1522-8886 . 2024-05-22 . 2024-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240522225713/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J167v04n04_06 . live .
  7. Book: Magocsi, Paul R. . Our people : Carpatho-Rusyns and their descendants in North America . 2005 . Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers . 9780865166110 . 4th . 79.
  8. Book: Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups . 1980 . Harvard University Press . 0674375122 . Thernstrom . Stephan . 207.
  9. Book: Walker, G.P.M. . Russian for Librarians . Linnet Books . 1973 . 0208011994 . 66.
  10. Young . Ann-Christe . 1998 . Grants and Acquisitions . ACRL College & Research Libraries News . 59 . 11 . 2024-05-19 . 2024-05-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240519152004/https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/23210/30259 . live .
  11. Web site: Deyrup . Marta . Donation of the Sabo Collection – University Libraries . 2024-05-19 . University Libraries . 2024-05-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240519152234/https://blogs.shu.edu/libraries/2012/02/donation-of-the-sabo-collection/ . live .

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