Metadata : Chancellery of the Head of the Caucasian Educational District
Collection
- Country:
- Georgia
- Holding institution:
- The Central Historical Archive of Georgia
- Holding institution (official language):
- საისტორიო ცენტრალური არქივი
- Postal address:
- 1, Vazha-Pshavela, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Email:
- info@archives.gov.ge
- Country:
- Georgia
- Holding institution:
- The Central Historical Archive of Georgia
- Holding institution (official language):
- საისტორიო ცენტრალური არქივი
- Postal address:
- 1, Vazha-Pshavela, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Email:
- info@archives.gov.ge
- Reference number:
- f. 422
- Title:
- Chancellery of the Head of the Caucasian Educational District
- Title (official language):
- კავკასიის სასწავლო ოლქის მძრუნველის კანცელარია
- Creator/accumulator:
- Chancellery of the Head of the Caucasian Educational District
- Date(s):
- 1849/1917
- Date note:
- start date approximate
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- ca. 16,100 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- The Caucasian Educational District was a territorial administrative unit of the Ministry of Popular Enlightenment with its headquarters in Tbilisi, which supervised the elementary, secondary and higher education in the Caucasus Region. In the complex multiethnic and multinational matrix of this region, the Educational District became an important instrument for implementing Russian Imperial policies. The archival collection of the District Head's Chancellery contains a certain amount of Jewish-related materials. These can be divided into the following thematic groups: 1. Correspondence, administrative papers, certificates related to the opening of Jewish schools, such as materials on a request of the Jewish teacher Gelibter from Kremenchug to open a Jewish boys' school in Tbilisi (1876), on a request by I Hecht to open a school for Jewish soldiers' children in Stavropol (1886), on a request of the Jewish community of Maykop to open a primary school (1886). Similar requests from Tbilisi (1891 and a request to open a Heder in 1896), Baku (1899, a coeducational school) and other places are also included in the collection, along with an 1891 instruction on the possibility of closing a Jewish school in Vladikavkaz, and a 1892 report on a Jewish school in Tbilisi. 2. Regulations and other administrative materials related to Jewish students of non-Jewish schools: correspondence on allowing Jewish students not to write in class in Saturdays and to miss school on religious holidays (1883-1884); regulations on the admission of Jewish students, including instructions related to the introduction of a "numerus clausus”, included in documents from the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century (1884, 1886, 1893, 1898, 1902, 1903, 1907); requests to provide statistical and other data related to them, reports on the Jewish students (1886, 1892, 1894, 1896). 3. Documents on the certification and employment of Jewish teachers and on the teaching of Jewish topics in non-Jewish schools: regulations on the certification of traditional Jewish teachers (melamdim; 1895); papers on the employment of a janitor of a Jewish school in Vladikavkaz (1900) and on the appointment and certification of teachers of Jewish origin; correspondence and regulations on the introduction of Jewish law lessons in the real school of Buynaksk (1907) and other localities and institutions. A file mentioning the necessity to keep secret the papers of the apostate M Kagan, in order to prevent rumours concerning his Jewish origin, is also included in the collection (1893).
- Archival history:
- In the 1920s the materials of the Russian administration in Tbilisi were transferred to the newly established Main Historical Archive of Georgia. In 1939 this archive became part of the Central State Historical Archive of Georgia, the predecessor of the contemporary Central Historical Archive.
- 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 in a given region. The Caucasian Educational District was established in 1848 and functioned until 1917.
- Access points: locations:
- Baku
- Tbilisi
- Vladikavkaz
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is open for reference at the Central Historical Archive of Georgia.
- Finding aids:
- A list of files is available at the Central Historical Archive of Georgia. A list of Jewish-related files is available at the CAHJP in Jerusalem.
- Author of the description:
- Alex Valdman (Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People), 2017
- Reference number:
- f. 422
- Title:
- Chancellery of the Head of the Caucasian Educational District
- Title (official language):
- კავკასიის სასწავლო ოლქის მძრუნველის კანცელარია
- Creator/accumulator:
- Chancellery of the Head of the Caucasian Educational District
- Date(s):
- 1849/1917
- Date note:
- start date approximate
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- ca. 16,100 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- The Caucasian Educational District was a territorial administrative unit of the Ministry of Popular Enlightenment with its headquarters in Tbilisi, which supervised the elementary, secondary and higher education in the Caucasus Region. In the complex multiethnic and multinational matrix of this region, the Educational District became an important instrument for implementing Russian Imperial policies. The archival collection of the District Head's Chancellery contains a certain amount of Jewish-related materials. These can be divided into the following thematic groups: 1. Correspondence, administrative papers, certificates related to the opening of Jewish schools, such as materials on a request of the Jewish teacher Gelibter from Kremenchug to open a Jewish boys' school in Tbilisi (1876), on a request by I Hecht to open a school for Jewish soldiers' children in Stavropol (1886), on a request of the Jewish community of Maykop to open a primary school (1886). Similar requests from Tbilisi (1891 and a request to open a Heder in 1896), Baku (1899, a coeducational school) and other places are also included in the collection, along with an 1891 instruction on the possibility of closing a Jewish school in Vladikavkaz, and a 1892 report on a Jewish school in Tbilisi. 2. Regulations and other administrative materials related to Jewish students of non-Jewish schools: correspondence on allowing Jewish students not to write in class in Saturdays and to miss school on religious holidays (1883-1884); regulations on the admission of Jewish students, including instructions related to the introduction of a "numerus clausus”, included in documents from the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century (1884, 1886, 1893, 1898, 1902, 1903, 1907); requests to provide statistical and other data related to them, reports on the Jewish students (1886, 1892, 1894, 1896). 3. Documents on the certification and employment of Jewish teachers and on the teaching of Jewish topics in non-Jewish schools: regulations on the certification of traditional Jewish teachers (melamdim; 1895); papers on the employment of a janitor of a Jewish school in Vladikavkaz (1900) and on the appointment and certification of teachers of Jewish origin; correspondence and regulations on the introduction of Jewish law lessons in the real school of Buynaksk (1907) and other localities and institutions. A file mentioning the necessity to keep secret the papers of the apostate M Kagan, in order to prevent rumours concerning his Jewish origin, is also included in the collection (1893).
- Archival history:
- In the 1920s the materials of the Russian administration in Tbilisi were transferred to the newly established Main Historical Archive of Georgia. In 1939 this archive became part of the Central State Historical Archive of Georgia, the predecessor of the contemporary Central Historical Archive.
- 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 in a given region. The Caucasian Educational District was established in 1848 and functioned until 1917.
- Access points: locations:
- Baku
- Tbilisi
- Vladikavkaz
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is open for reference at the Central Historical Archive of Georgia.
- Finding aids:
- A list of files is available at the Central Historical Archive of Georgia. A list of Jewish-related files is available at the CAHJP in Jerusalem.
- Author of the description:
- Alex Valdman (Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People), 2017
