Metadata: The Private Coeducational School of the Society for Jewish Education and Culture "Shul-Kult"
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Central State Archives of Lithuania
- Holding institution (official language):
- Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas
- Postal address:
- O. Milašiaus 21, LT-10102, Vilnius
- Phone number:
- (8 5) 247 7830
- Web address:
- http://www.archyvai.lt/lt/lcva.html
- Email:
- lcva@archyvai.lt
- Reference number:
- f. 294
- Title:
- The Private Coeducational School of the Society for Jewish Education and Culture "Shul-Kult"
- Title (official language):
- Žydų mokyklų ir kultūros rėmimo draugijos „Šul-Kult“ privati mišri pradžios mokykla jidiš dėstomąja kalba Vilniuje
- Creator/accumulator:
- Shul-Kult school, Vilnius
- Date(s):
- 1928/1940
- Language:
- Lithuanian
- Yiddish
- Hebrew
- Polish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 79 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The Vilnius school of the Shul-Kult Society for Jewish Education and Culture was established in 1928 and functioned until 1940. Its archive is composed of materials that document educational activities, administrative matters, statistics and other data.
The administrative materials include information on the school's teachers, including lists of names, biographical data and addresses; data on the school's pupils, including lists of names and addresses and data on pupils' families (including a survey on the pupils' living conditions, taken in the mid-1930s); data on the pupils' meals, including accounts of food bought for the school kitchen, meals prepared; data on the school's equipment, including inventories; and financial accounts.
A notable part of the collection highlights the school's interaction with the local educational authorities in Vilnius, both during Polish rule and after the annexation of Vilnius to Lithuania. These materials include correspondence on the establishment of the school, circulars and instructions on educational and administrative issues, permits to organise various events and reports on the school’s pupils and teachers.
Another part of the collection includes data on the school’s educational activities: educational plans and learning programs, lesson plans and contents and data on the pupils' achievements. One of the files contains end-of-year report cards for the school’s fifth-year pupils from 1939.
Several files mention other activities of the Shul-Kult Society, such as the organisation of a Jewish children's club in Vilnius and the establishment of a shelter for children in Warsaw.
- Archival history:
- The Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940 put an end to the legal activities of Jewish organisations in Vilnius, including Jewish educational institutions. Exact information concerning the fate of the archives from these organisations after the Soviet takeover and during the Nazi occupation is not available. During the Soviet period, the archive of the Shul-Kult school in Vilnius was deposited at the Central State Archive of the Lithuanian SSR in Vilnius, predecessor of the modern Central State Archive of Lithuania.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Shul-Kult society for Jewish Education and Culture, a small Jewish educational association affiliated with the Right Po‘ale Tsiyon (Zionist-Socialist) party in Poland, established its school in Vilnius in 1928. The school included seven grades with several hundred pupils. The school continued to function after the annexation of Vilnius to Lithuania, but was closed after the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in mid-1940.
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of one inventory, which is arranged in thematic order.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is open for reference at LCVA.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory in Lithuanian is available at the Lithuanian Central State Archive (online access is available). Inventories and descriptions in Polish and Yiddish are available at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Links to finding aids:
- https://eais-pub.archyvai.lt/eais/faces/pages/forms/search/F3001.jspx?_afPfm=3b0b03f9.1
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Alex Valdman, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2014
