Metadata : Collection: Documents of Jewish Сharitable Organisations in Latvia
Collection
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- Museum “Jews in Latvia”
- Holding institution (official language):
- Muzejs “Ebreji Latvijā”
- Postal address:
- Skolas iela 6, Rīga, LV-1010
- Phone number:
- +371 6728 3484
- Web address:
- http://www.jewishmuseum.lv/
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- Museum “Jews in Latvia”
- Holding institution (official language):
- Muzejs “Ebreji Latvijā”
- Postal address:
- Skolas iela 6, Rīga, LV-1010
- Phone number:
- +371 6728 3484
- Web address:
- http://www.jewishmuseum.lv/
- Title:
- Collection: Documents of Jewish Сharitable Organisations in Latvia
- Title (official language):
- Kolekcija: Latvijas ebreju labdarības organizāciju dokumenti
- Date(s):
- 1910/1939
- Date note:
- 1910s-1930s
- Language:
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Latvian
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- about 50 collection items
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Graphic material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains documents of the following Latvian Jewish charitable societies: the Gdoko Gdoilo interest-free loans society, Riga society of cheap canteens, funeral society Chevra Kadisha, medical aid association Linat Hacedek, Bikur Holim hospital, community of nursing homes Meishav Zkeinim, health protection society “OZE”, Malbish Arumim society which provided the poor with clothing and others. There are brochures, calendars, almanacs, newspaper clippings, photographs, periodicals, flyers, membership cards, certificates, statutes, etc. These documents will be of interest to researchers studying the history of Jewish philanthropic societies or the public life of the Latvian Jewish community. For example, the Jewish calendar of 1933-1934, published as a brochure by the Malbish Arumim society, details events organised by the Jewish community in addition to listing Jewish holidays and explaining Jewish traditions. The 1930 Bikur Holim brochure contains a detailed overview of the organisation’s activities. Selected photographs of doctors and nurses of the hospital, texts about prominent doctors illustrate the history of Jewish medicine in Latvia.
OZE provided free dental treatment for children from low-income families and ran a tuberculosis dispensary and a children's summer camp in Dubulti. The Jewish hospital "Bikur Holim" was created by the eponymous society that existed in Riga in the 19th century. A hospital was built funded by the Jewish philanthropist U Milman and the Joint organisation in 1924 with therapeutic, neurological, surgical and maternity wards. The director of the hospital was Doctor Isak Ioffe, who led the city health department in the early 1920s. The surgical department was headed by Professor Vladimir Mintz (brother of the famous lawyer and politician Paul Mintz), one of the most prominent experts in his field. Dr. Ioffe died in the ghetto of Riga in 1941. Professor Mintz died in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. "Linat Hacedek" was a Jewish gynaecological clinic and maternity hospital. The clinic was established by the Linat Hacedek Society, which was founded in Riga in 1910. The organiser and head of the clinic was Dr. Boris Herzfeld.
- Archival history:
- No information
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The most famous charitable organisations involved in health care were the Society for the Health of the Jews - OZE, Bikur Holim and Linat Hacedek. Both Bikur Holim and the Linat Hacedek Hospital received Jewish and non-Jewish patients. Three-year nursing courses operated in both hospitals. “Meishav Zkeinim" was a shelter for the helpless and the elderly. The light spacious building of the shelter was built after the First World War with the funds raised by the Meishav Zkeinim Society. The Nazis incarcerated the inhabitants of the shelter into the ghetto, where in 1941 they were killed. The funerary society "Chevra Kadisha" provided the poor Jew with a tachrichim, allocated funds for the funeral, burial service and gravestone.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Mincs, Vladimirs
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Jana Makarova
- Title:
- Collection: Documents of Jewish Сharitable Organisations in Latvia
- Title (official language):
- Kolekcija: Latvijas ebreju labdarības organizāciju dokumenti
- Date(s):
- 1910/1939
- Date note:
- 1910s-1930s
- Language:
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Latvian
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- about 50 collection items
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Graphic material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains documents of the following Latvian Jewish charitable societies: the Gdoko Gdoilo interest-free loans society, Riga society of cheap canteens, funeral society Chevra Kadisha, medical aid association Linat Hacedek, Bikur Holim hospital, community of nursing homes Meishav Zkeinim, health protection society “OZE”, Malbish Arumim society which provided the poor with clothing and others. There are brochures, calendars, almanacs, newspaper clippings, photographs, periodicals, flyers, membership cards, certificates, statutes, etc. These documents will be of interest to researchers studying the history of Jewish philanthropic societies or the public life of the Latvian Jewish community. For example, the Jewish calendar of 1933-1934, published as a brochure by the Malbish Arumim society, details events organised by the Jewish community in addition to listing Jewish holidays and explaining Jewish traditions. The 1930 Bikur Holim brochure contains a detailed overview of the organisation’s activities. Selected photographs of doctors and nurses of the hospital, texts about prominent doctors illustrate the history of Jewish medicine in Latvia.
OZE provided free dental treatment for children from low-income families and ran a tuberculosis dispensary and a children's summer camp in Dubulti. The Jewish hospital "Bikur Holim" was created by the eponymous society that existed in Riga in the 19th century. A hospital was built funded by the Jewish philanthropist U Milman and the Joint organisation in 1924 with therapeutic, neurological, surgical and maternity wards. The director of the hospital was Doctor Isak Ioffe, who led the city health department in the early 1920s. The surgical department was headed by Professor Vladimir Mintz (brother of the famous lawyer and politician Paul Mintz), one of the most prominent experts in his field. Dr. Ioffe died in the ghetto of Riga in 1941. Professor Mintz died in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. "Linat Hacedek" was a Jewish gynaecological clinic and maternity hospital. The clinic was established by the Linat Hacedek Society, which was founded in Riga in 1910. The organiser and head of the clinic was Dr. Boris Herzfeld.
- Archival history:
- No information
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The most famous charitable organisations involved in health care were the Society for the Health of the Jews - OZE, Bikur Holim and Linat Hacedek. Both Bikur Holim and the Linat Hacedek Hospital received Jewish and non-Jewish patients. Three-year nursing courses operated in both hospitals. “Meishav Zkeinim" was a shelter for the helpless and the elderly. The light spacious building of the shelter was built after the First World War with the funds raised by the Meishav Zkeinim Society. The Nazis incarcerated the inhabitants of the shelter into the ghetto, where in 1941 they were killed. The funerary society "Chevra Kadisha" provided the poor Jew with a tachrichim, allocated funds for the funeral, burial service and gravestone.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Mincs, Vladimirs
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Jana Makarova
