Metadata: Tushia Jewish Gymnasium with the Support of the Heder Msukon Society (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
- Reference number:
- 3289
- Title:
- Tushia Jewish Gymnasium with the Support of the Heder Msukon Society (Riga)
- Title (official language):
- Biedrības Cheder Msukon ebreju ģimnāzija Tušija
- Creator/accumulator:
- Tushia Jewish Gymnasium with the Support of the Heder Msukon Society
- Date(s):
- 1927/1940
- Language:
- Latvian
- Hebrew
- Russian
- Extent:
- 64 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains documents of the Tushia Jewish Gymnasium. It was the primary school of the Jewish society Heder Msukon in Riga since 1902, and was the first in the territory of the Russian Empire to advance national-religious principles and have Hebrew-language instruction for children. Its purpose was to teach Hebrew, Biblical studies, Jewish history, religious and general education subjects. Courses were taught in Hebrew. Almost all teachers were students of the Heder Msukon school. Since 1923, the primary school was called Tuschia. The collection includes orders, instructions, and circulars about the schoolwork; minutes of meetings of the pedagogical council; minutes of parental meetings; surveys on the composition of the school and gymnasium and their activities; CVs for teaching work; teaching certificates; lists of pupils; graduation degrees; petitions for admission to the gymnasium; grade books, exam records, and correspondence. In the 1938-1939 curriculum of the Tushia gymnasium Latvian, Hebrew and Bible, and mathematics were the courses stressed most. Each of these subjects were taught for four hours a week.
- Archival history:
- No information
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Heder Msukon ("Exemplary School") Society ran the gymnasium Tushia ("Wisdom").In 1927, Tushia opened its gymnasium classes. The school distinguished itself from other schools through its strict national and religious traditions. Only boys studied at the gymnasium. Tushia was located at 141 Lachplesha Street and 4 Popova (Visvalzha) Street in Riga. Zalaman Makhelson (1909-1941) was the last director. The People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs dissolved the Heder Msukon Society on 2 September 1940.
- Access points: locations:
- Riga
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Jana Makarova. Edited by Aaron Lasaine, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2019
