Metadata : GruzOZET (The Georgian Branch of the All-Union Association for the Agricultural Settlement of Jewish Workers)
Collection
- Country:
- Georgia
- Holding institution:
- Central Archive of Audio-Visual Documents
- Holding institution (official language):
- კინოფოტოფონო-დოკუმენტების ცენტრალური არქივი
- Postal address:
- 1, Vazha-Pshavela, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Email:
- info@archives.gov.ge
- Country:
- Georgia
- Holding institution:
- Central Archive of Audio-Visual Documents
- Holding institution (official language):
- კინოფოტოფონო-დოკუმენტების ცენტრალური არქივი
- Postal address:
- 1, Vazha-Pshavela, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Email:
- info@archives.gov.ge
- Reference number:
- f. A299
- Title:
- GruzOZET (The Georgian Branch of the All-Union Association for the Agricultural Settlement of Jewish Workers)
- Title (official language):
- ГрузОЗЕТ (Грузинское отделение всесоюзного общества по земельному устройству трудящихся евреев)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Georgian Branch of the All-Union Association for the Agricultural Settlement of Jewish Workers (GruzOZET)
- Date(s):
- unknown
- Date note:
- probably correlates with the years of activity of GruzOZET – 1925-1938
- Language:
- Russian
- Georgian
- Extent:
- 83 files
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
-
The collection mostly includes photographs of activities and institutions supported by the GruzOZET. It can be divided into the following categories:
1. Agriculture: photographs of agricultural activities and equipment in Jewish Kolkhozes (collective farms) in Akhaltsikhe, Oni, Surami and other localities.
2. Manufacturing and industry, including photos from a brick factory in Oni, depictions of a book binding shop and an electronic equipment factory affiliated with the GruzOZET, the GruzOZET's photography laboratory.
3. Persons and buildings, including members of the Jewish kolkhozes and groups of workers, such as the women members of the Kolkhoz at Vani, a housing building and a kindergarten in the same Kolkhoz, members of the Jewish kolkhoz in Kobuleti – the chairman, workers, buildings and facilities. The GruzOZET's executive board members are also depicted in several photographs, including a photo with Jewish-Soviet writers. At least in one case, depictions of purged members of the board were cut out from the photograph.
The collection also includes a map of the Jewish kolkhozes in the Georgian SSR. A photo of a steam engine named after the GruzOZET can be also found in the collection.
More photographs related to the GruzOZET are found in collections A301 and A304.
- Archival history:
- This collection, along with several Jewish-related photographic collections, was originally held by the Historical-Ethnographic Museum of the Jews of Georgia (see Central Archive of Contemporary History, f. 35). After the museum's liquidation in the early 1950s, its photographic materials were transferred to the Central Archive of Audio-Visual Documents. Currently, the original photographs are located at the David Baazov Museum of History of Jews of Georgia, while the CAAVD holds copies of the photographs.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
OZET (Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo po Zemel’nomu Ustroistvu Trudiashchikhsia Evreev v SSSR; All-Union Association for the Agricultural Settlement of Jewish Workers in the USSR) was established in 1925 as a non-governmental body, intended to promote the Soviet plans of fostering the settlement of Jews on the land, their engagement in agriculture and industry (the governmental organisation, responsible for the implementation of this policy was called KOMZET). OZET provided financial and practical assistance to the newly established Jewish agricultural colonies throughout the USSR (including the ones established in the "Jewish autonomous region" of Birobidzhan). OZET was liquidated in 1938, not before many of its activists, including the chairman, S M Dimanshtein, were arrested.
GruzOZET, the Georgian branch of OZET, was established in 1927. By 1933, it supported the creation of at least 15 Jewish kolkhozes in various parts of the Georgian SSR. The activities of GruzOZET were ceased along with the liquidation of OZET in 1938. The majority of Jewish Kolkhozes were "internationalised", i.e. Jewish collective farms were merged with non-Jewish ones during the 1930s and in subsequent years.
- Access points: locations:
- Akhaltsikhe
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Jewish kolkhoz
- Manufacturing
- Photographs
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes one inventory.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is open for reference at the Central Archive of Contemporary History of Georgia.
- Finding aids:
- A list of files and a catalogue are available at the Central Archive of Contemporary History. A list of Jewish-related files is available at the CAHJP in Jerusalem.
- 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), 2017
- Reference number:
- f. A299
- Title:
- GruzOZET (The Georgian Branch of the All-Union Association for the Agricultural Settlement of Jewish Workers)
- Title (official language):
- ГрузОЗЕТ (Грузинское отделение всесоюзного общества по земельному устройству трудящихся евреев)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Georgian Branch of the All-Union Association for the Agricultural Settlement of Jewish Workers (GruzOZET)
- Date(s):
- unknown
- Date note:
- probably correlates with the years of activity of GruzOZET – 1925-1938
- Language:
- Russian
- Georgian
- Extent:
- 83 files
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
-
The collection mostly includes photographs of activities and institutions supported by the GruzOZET. It can be divided into the following categories:
1. Agriculture: photographs of agricultural activities and equipment in Jewish Kolkhozes (collective farms) in Akhaltsikhe, Oni, Surami and other localities.
2. Manufacturing and industry, including photos from a brick factory in Oni, depictions of a book binding shop and an electronic equipment factory affiliated with the GruzOZET, the GruzOZET's photography laboratory.
3. Persons and buildings, including members of the Jewish kolkhozes and groups of workers, such as the women members of the Kolkhoz at Vani, a housing building and a kindergarten in the same Kolkhoz, members of the Jewish kolkhoz in Kobuleti – the chairman, workers, buildings and facilities. The GruzOZET's executive board members are also depicted in several photographs, including a photo with Jewish-Soviet writers. At least in one case, depictions of purged members of the board were cut out from the photograph.
The collection also includes a map of the Jewish kolkhozes in the Georgian SSR. A photo of a steam engine named after the GruzOZET can be also found in the collection.
More photographs related to the GruzOZET are found in collections A301 and A304.
- Archival history:
- This collection, along with several Jewish-related photographic collections, was originally held by the Historical-Ethnographic Museum of the Jews of Georgia (see Central Archive of Contemporary History, f. 35). After the museum's liquidation in the early 1950s, its photographic materials were transferred to the Central Archive of Audio-Visual Documents. Currently, the original photographs are located at the David Baazov Museum of History of Jews of Georgia, while the CAAVD holds copies of the photographs.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
OZET (Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo po Zemel’nomu Ustroistvu Trudiashchikhsia Evreev v SSSR; All-Union Association for the Agricultural Settlement of Jewish Workers in the USSR) was established in 1925 as a non-governmental body, intended to promote the Soviet plans of fostering the settlement of Jews on the land, their engagement in agriculture and industry (the governmental organisation, responsible for the implementation of this policy was called KOMZET). OZET provided financial and practical assistance to the newly established Jewish agricultural colonies throughout the USSR (including the ones established in the "Jewish autonomous region" of Birobidzhan). OZET was liquidated in 1938, not before many of its activists, including the chairman, S M Dimanshtein, were arrested.
GruzOZET, the Georgian branch of OZET, was established in 1927. By 1933, it supported the creation of at least 15 Jewish kolkhozes in various parts of the Georgian SSR. The activities of GruzOZET were ceased along with the liquidation of OZET in 1938. The majority of Jewish Kolkhozes were "internationalised", i.e. Jewish collective farms were merged with non-Jewish ones during the 1930s and in subsequent years.
- Access points: locations:
- Akhaltsikhe
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Jewish kolkhoz
- Manufacturing
- Photographs
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes one inventory.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is open for reference at the Central Archive of Contemporary History of Georgia.
- Finding aids:
- A list of files and a catalogue are available at the Central Archive of Contemporary History. A list of Jewish-related files is available at the CAHJP in Jerusalem.
- 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), 2017
