Metadata: Jewish Music Institute
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Lithuanian Archives of Literature and Art
- Holding institution (official language):
- Lietuvos literatūros ir meno archyvas
- Postal address:
- O. Milašiaus g. 19, 10102 Vilnius
- Phone number:
- +370 5 265 2624
- Email:
- llma@archyvai.lt
- Reference number:
- 272
- Title:
- Jewish Music Institute
- Title (official language):
- Žydų muzikos institutas
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Music Institute
- Date(s):
- 1925/1940
- Language:
- Lithuanian
- Extent:
- 18 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds includes the statutes of the Jewish Music Institute, records of exams, press reviews of concerts, personal documents of the institute's teachers and their students, reports of the institute’s activities, lists of listeners, correspondence with the Jewish American organisation “Joint” in Warsaw, correspondence with Kaunas association of Music Lovers and the Vilnius governor, correspondence with the institute of state social insurance in Warsaw, lists of students and study programs from 1937-38, 1938-39 and 1939-40, reports from the meetings of the institute’s teachers, report from the student council activities, programmes of piano classes and lists of students who passed exams in 1940-41.
- Archival history:
- In 1962 the special cultural division in the Central State Archive of the Lithuanian SSR was established in order to collect documents associated with art and culture mainly for the period of 1940-1941 and the post-war period. In 1968, on the basis of this repository, the Central State Archive of Literature and Art of the Lithuanian SSR was founded. This new archive also sought to encompass cultural records of the interwar and the pre-revolutionary periods. At a certain unknown stage this archive received the materials of the pre-war Jewish Music Institute.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Institute was established in 1925 in Vilnius. It was famous not only in Poland and Lithuania but throughout Europe for its education and training in piano and voice. At the beginning of the Nazi occupation all Jewish students and teachers were dismissed; the institute was later reorganised into a music school. Most of the Jewish students, teachers, and staff members were transferred to the Vilnius ghetto and later killed in the mass executions at Paneriai (Ponary).
- Access points: locations:
- Vilnius
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged chronologically.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Monika Žulytė
