Metadata : Religious Society "Tseirey Agudas Yisroel" (Riga)
Collection
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- Latvian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs
- Postal address:
- Slokas iela 16, Rīga, LV-1048
- Phone number:
- +371 20 017 505
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- Latvian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs
- Postal address:
- Slokas iela 16, Rīga, LV-1048
- Phone number:
- +371 20 017 505
- Reference number:
- 7153
- Title:
- Religious Society "Tseirey Agudas Yisroel" (Riga)
- Title (official language):
- Reliģiskā biedrība "Ceire - Agudas - Israel" (Rīga)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Religious Society "Tseirey Agudas Yisroel"
- Date(s):
- 1915/1936
- Date note:
- Predominantly 1919/1933
- Language:
- Hebrew
- German
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 4 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains documents of the Riga branch of the religious Society "Tseirey Agudas Yisroel". It includes minutes of board meetings and of general meetings (mainly from 1919-1921), members registration forms, and minutes of closing committee meetings from 1935-1936. Based on these documents, it is possible to study the ideology of the movement and its practice. An important part of the collection is correspondence of the society in Riga with board and branches of the society abroad, and with private persons on various organisational issues. This correspondence shows, for example, that the Riga branch had good relations and close cooperation with the Kaunas branch in Lithuania. The correspondence of the Riga branch contains discussions of matters such as opening new branches of the society, opening schools and providing education, settlement and the maintenance of schools in Eretz Israel and more.
- Archival history:
- The former reference number of the Riga “Tseirey Agudas Yisroel’s” collection in the Central State Archive of the Latvian SSR was f. 1168.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Orthodox male youth movement “Tseirey Agudas Yisroel” was founded in Poland in 1919. Branches of the movement was established in different countries, including in Riga (Latvia). The movement promoted orthodox-religious education and culture. In 1935, after Ulmanis’s coup of 1934, the Latvian branches of “Tseirey Agudas Yisroel” were closed down. .
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Education
- Orthodox Judaism
- Zionism--Zionist youth movements
- Finding aids:
- Lists of the collection materials are available at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem (see copies of the collection's materials at the archives).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Ilya Vovshin, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2018
- Reference number:
- 7153
- Title:
- Religious Society "Tseirey Agudas Yisroel" (Riga)
- Title (official language):
- Reliģiskā biedrība "Ceire - Agudas - Israel" (Rīga)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Religious Society "Tseirey Agudas Yisroel"
- Date(s):
- 1915/1936
- Date note:
- Predominantly 1919/1933
- Language:
- Hebrew
- German
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 4 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains documents of the Riga branch of the religious Society "Tseirey Agudas Yisroel". It includes minutes of board meetings and of general meetings (mainly from 1919-1921), members registration forms, and minutes of closing committee meetings from 1935-1936. Based on these documents, it is possible to study the ideology of the movement and its practice. An important part of the collection is correspondence of the society in Riga with board and branches of the society abroad, and with private persons on various organisational issues. This correspondence shows, for example, that the Riga branch had good relations and close cooperation with the Kaunas branch in Lithuania. The correspondence of the Riga branch contains discussions of matters such as opening new branches of the society, opening schools and providing education, settlement and the maintenance of schools in Eretz Israel and more.
- Archival history:
- The former reference number of the Riga “Tseirey Agudas Yisroel’s” collection in the Central State Archive of the Latvian SSR was f. 1168.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Orthodox male youth movement “Tseirey Agudas Yisroel” was founded in Poland in 1919. Branches of the movement was established in different countries, including in Riga (Latvia). The movement promoted orthodox-religious education and culture. In 1935, after Ulmanis’s coup of 1934, the Latvian branches of “Tseirey Agudas Yisroel” were closed down. .
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Education
- Orthodox Judaism
- Zionism--Zionist youth movements
- Finding aids:
- Lists of the collection materials are available at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem (see copies of the collection's materials at the archives).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Ilya Vovshin, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2018
