Metadata: Ministry of Popular Enlightenment of the Democratic Republic of Georgia
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
- Reference number:
- f. 1935
- Title:
- Ministry of Popular Enlightenment of the Democratic Republic of Georgia
- Title (official language):
- საქართველოს დემოკრატიული რესპუბლიკის სახალხო განათლების სამინისტრო
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ministry of Popular Enlightenment of the Democratic Republic of Georgia
- Date(s):
- 1918/1921
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 4,262 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The collection of the Ministry of Popular Enlightenment includes a variety of materials, reflecting both administrative and educational activities. The administrative materials include minutes, correspondence, reports and other documents related to the Ministry's activities – nationalisation, reorganisation and establishment of schools and other institutions, the development of professional education, the creation and publication of rules and regulations. Personal files of scholars and political activists are also included in the collection.
The collection includes several Jewish-related files that are mostly listed in the first inventory. Among these, there are reports, lists of teaching staff and other data on schools of ethnic minorities, including data on Jewish schools in Kulashi, Oni and other localities (1920-1921); correspondence and reports on Jewish secondary schools, such as a report on the Shuster private eight-year gymnasium in Tbilisi (1918; on the establishment of this school see f. 1933). Correspondence on the appointment of teachers in Jewish schools (1918-1919), and regulations on Jewish religious and cultural organisations can be also found in the collection (1919-1920).
- Archival history:
- The Central State Historical Archive of Georgia received the collection in 1939.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Democratic Republic of Georgia was proclaimed in May 1918 and existed, as an independent state, until the Soviet invasion of Georgia and its Sovietisation in 1921.
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes two inventories.
- 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.
- 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