Curator of the Educational District of Vilnius

Collection description

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Country:: Estonia

Holding institution:: Historical Archives of Estonia

Holding institution (official language):: Eesti Ajalooarhiiv

Postal address:: Tartu, J. Liivi 4, 50409

Phone number:: (+372) 738 7500

Web address:: https://www.ra.ee/et/kes-me-oleme-2/

Email:: rahvusarhiiv@ra.ee

Reference number:: EAA.384

Title:: Curator of the Educational District of Vilnius

Title (official language):: Riia(Tartu) õpperingkonna kuraator

Creator/accumulator:: Curator of the Educational District of Vilnius

Date(s):: 1800/1918

Language:: German; Russian

Extent:: 5,628 files

Type of material:: Textual material; Photographic images

Physical condition:: good

Scope and content:: The Educational District of Tartu (and later of Riga) was a territorial administrative unit of the Russian Ministry of Popular Enlightenment, which supervised elementary, secondary and higher education in the Russian-ruled Baltic area. The archival collection of the educational district's headquarters includes a multitude of data on educational policies and practices, administrative issues and various social and cultural matters. The collection contains a significant amount of Jewish-related materials.

Several files contain data on Jewish elementary education: Jewish education in Courland in the mid-1820s and Jewish elementary and professional schools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (including documents on the appointment of teachers and the establishment and funding of schools).

Jewish secondary education is represented in files referring to early 20th century private Jewish secondary schools (including lists of pupils, examination minutes, reports, certificates and other data). Jewish-related materials can also be found in files referring to the granting of teaching certificates, the examination of applicants for the certificate of apprentice pharmacist, and certificates of medical assistants, dentists and midwives. These files often contain personal data including photographs and birth and graduation certificates.

The collection also includes various data on the Jewish students of the University of Tartu: reports on disciplinary issues; files referring to cultural and political activities; minutes and other papers of examination commissions (for instance, the papers from the examination commission for law students from 1894-1916 include personal data on Jewish examinees).

Personal files of certified home teachers and school teachers from the period between the 1870s and 1918 can also be found in the collection, as well as personal files of staff members of the University of Tartu – mostly apostates such as M. Pergament and E. Tarle.

Archival history:: Some of the materials of the educational district were transferred to the Central State Archive of Estonia, predecessor of the current Estonian Historical Archives, in 1924. Part of these materials is also held by the State Historical Archives of Latvia (LVA, f. 240).

Administrative/biographical history:: In imperial Russia, educational districts were territorial administrative units of the Ministry of Popular Enlightenment, which supervised the elementary, secondary and higher education of a given region. The Educational District of Tartu was one of the first six districts to be established in 1803. The educational district included the governorates of Estonia, Finland (until 1809), Courland and Livonia. From 1870-1876 and 1886-1915 the headquarters of the educational district were located in Riga. In 1893 the Educational District of Tartu was officially renamed the Educational District of Riga.

Access points: locations:: Kurland; Riga; Tartu

Access points: persons/families:: Pergament, M; Tarle, E

Subject terms:: Education--Schools and universities; Education--Students; Jewish political activity; Photographs; Statistics; Vital records; Vital records--Birth records

System of arrangement:: The collection consists of three inventories.

Access, restrictions:: The collection is open for reference at the Estonian Historical Archives, Tartu.

Finding aids:: Data on the collection is available at the web portal of the National Archives of Estonia: http://ais.ra.ee, Detailotsing – Leidandmed – EAA.384.

For further reference see: Ajalooarhiiv, Arhiivijuht. II, Tartu, 2006, Lk. 19-22.

Links to finding aids:: http://ais.ra.ee

Yerusha Network member:: Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People

Author of the description:: Tatjana Schor, Historical Archives of Estonia, and Alex Valdman, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2015

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