Metadata: Vilnius region and Warsaw Jewish public organisations
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Lithuanian Central State Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybinis archyvas
- Postal address:
- O. Milašiaus g. 21, 10102 Vilnius
- Phone number:
- +370 5 247 7830
- Web address:
- https://www.archyvai.lt/lt/lcva.html
- Email:
- Lcva@archyvai.lt
- Reference number:
- 360
- Title:
- Vilnius region and Warsaw Jewish public organisations
- Title (official language):
- Vilniaus krašto ir Varšuvos žydų visuomeninės organizacijos
- Creator/accumulator:
- Lithuanian Central State Archive
- Date(s):
- 1919/1940
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Hebrew
- Polish
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 32 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection contains documents produced by ten Jewish organisations that operated in Vilnius or in Warsaw in the interwar period: the Association for Jewish Authors and Journalists in Vilnius; the Jewish PEN club in Vilnius; the Jewish Central Education Committee in Vilnius; the Vilnius region Jewish Teachers’ Professional Union; the General Jewish Teachers’ Professional Union in Vilnius; the Vilnius Branch of Polish Jews’ Regional History Association; the Association for the Spread of Craft and Agriculture among Jews “ORT”; the Polish Craftsmen’s Association; Working Friends of Palestine Association in Warsaw; and the Evening Courses for Adults Association in Warsaw. Some general documents pertaining to these organisations that are in this collection are as follows: various correspondences with branches in other cities and countries as well as correspondences with government bodies, educational bodies, schools and other organisations, minutes of meetings, lists of members, articles and messages about activities, requests for membership of the various associations, association statutes, financial documents and other similar official documents.
- Archival history:
- This collection was organised in 2003.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Interwar Lithuania had an autonomous Jewish community until 1926, and even after the dissolving of official autonomy Jews thrived culturally, economically, educationally and socially. This collection contains documents of associations, unions and societies pertaining to Jewish education, craftsmanship, agriculture, journalism and writing. They operated from the establishment of the independent Lithuanian Republic in 1919 until the Soviet occupation in 1940.
- System of arrangement:
- There is one inventory.
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to some of the documents is restricted.
- Finding aids:
- Detailed inventories are available for free online access on the website of the Lithuanian Chief Archivist Service.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://eais-pub.archyvai.lt/eais/faces/pages/forms/search/F3001.jspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Julija Levin, 2019. Edited by Aaron Lasaine, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2019
