Metadata: Gymnasium of the Society for the Promotion of Jewish Arts and Knowledge and the Gymnasium and School of the School Community “Ivrit” (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:
- 7091
- Title:
- Gymnasium of the Society for the Promotion of Jewish Arts and Knowledge and the Gymnasium and School of the School Community “Ivrit” (Riga)
- Title (official language):
- Ebreju mākslas un zinātnes veicināšanas biedrības ģimnāzija un skolu biedrības “Ivrit” ģimnāzija un skola (Rīga)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gymnasium of the Society for the Promotion of Jewish Arts and Knowledge and the Gymnasium and School of the School Community “Ivrit”
- Date(s):
- 1921/1940
- Language:
- Latvian
- Hebrew
- Russian
- Extent:
- 78 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains documents of the Gymnasium of the Society for the Promotion of Jewish Arts and Knowledge and the Gymnasium and School of the School Community “Ivrit” (Riga). It includes: the historical background of the gymnasium, elementary school and kindergarten; circulars from the Riga City School Board and the Riga Education Board regarding schools, lists of teachers and students, payroll books, teacher certificates, curriculum and examination protocols, entrance examination reports, admission statements to the school, personal documents of pupils, certificates, progress journals, the work journal of the head of the kindergarten, and cash books. The documents from 1940 refer to the period of the Soviet occupation of Latvia. For example, in an address to school principals from 31 October 1940, it was planned that on the occasion of the October Revolution the People’s Commissariat of Education would award the school that was most successful in Socialist competitions with the passing of the Red Banner. The Department of Education required every school to send information about its Socialist infrastructure: for example whether there was a pioneer leader in the school, a Komsomol cell, the Red Corner, or a wall newspaper. The schools also received a directive to celebrate December 5 as the Great Stalinist Constitution Day with a list of slogans praising the great work of Lenin-Stalin, and on school holidays the children were offered a list of Soviet films to be watched in Riga cinemas: "Tractor drivers", "Chapaev", "Pioneers magazine " etc.
- Archival history:
- No information
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Society for the Promotion of Jewish Culture and Science opened a gymnasium and elementary school at 9 Kurmanova Street, Riga, in 1921. The first director was M Vayntrob. In the first school year, there were separate classes for boys and girls, with a total of 203 students. In 1928, the Society for the Promotion of Jewish Culture bought a building at Lazaretes Street 3 where the gymnasium was moved to. In 1939, the Gymnasium of the Society for the Promotion of Jewish Arts and Knowledge was renamed the Gymnasium and School of the School Community “Ivrit”. Courses in the gymnasium and school were taught in Hebrew. The “Ivrit” Community had 67 members (among them 15 Zionists). From 1938-1939 the community supervised a similar gymnasium with 170 students, two main schools (67 students) and a kindergarten (61 children). The organisation also held events dedicated to the Hebrew culture and language.
- Access points: locations:
- Riga
- Subject terms:
- Communism
- Education--Schools and universities
- Film
- Personal records
- Socialism
- 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
