Metadata: Vilnius School District Curator and School District Inspectorate in Vilnius
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Lithuanian Central State Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas
- Postal address:
- O. Milošiaus 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:
- f. 173
- Title:
- Vilnius School District Curator and School District Inspectorate in Vilnius
- Title (official language):
- Vilniaus mokyklų apygardos kuratorija ir mokyklų rajonų inspektorių įstaigos Vilniuje
- Creator/accumulator:
- Vilnius School District Curator and School District Inspectorate in Vilnius; LCVA
- Date(s):
- 1919/1944
- Language:
- Belarusian
- German
- Lithuanian
- Polish
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 4,494 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection containing documents pertaining to schools in Vilnius is very rich in Jewish related content.
Jewish schools include: “Tachkemoni” schools (for boys, girls, different ages), “Tarbut” schools, “Shul-Kult” schools and kindergartens, Sholom Aleichem schools, “Javno” schools (established by Agudat-Israel) and private schools such as Dr. Epshtein’s private school, Mafitsei Haskalah school, Sh. Frug’s private school, D. Kupershtein private school, Shalom Aleichem school, and the Talmud-Tora. Other schools are only named by number. Documents pertaining to all these schools are present in this collection.
The Jewish Central Education Committee, Vaad-HaMeuhad (a Rabbinical organisation) and the Vilnius City School Inspectorate observed their activities, made reports and conducted correspondence about various Jewish schools. In addition, active cases, budgets, lists of teachers, lesson plans, timetables, correspondence and other documents pertaining to various Jewish schools are present in this collection. The vast majority of these schools were in Vilnius.
In addition, this collection contains files pertaining to teachers. Many Jewish names can be found in the inventory list.
- Archival history:
- The LCVA was established in 1921, following a statute of the Lithuanian Board of Education. In 1940, when Soviets occupied Lithuania, the NKVD took over the archive. During the Nazi occupation of 1941-1944, the archive continued its activities, and it was renamed the Vilnius National Archive. Following the second Soviet occupation of 1944, the NKVD regained control of the archive. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the archive was renamed the Lithuanian Central State Archive. The LCVA arranged this collection in 1966 and 1968; the inventory was updated in 2004.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In Polish-occupied interwar Vilnius, Jewish education associations such as Tarbut, Shul-Kult and others opened many schools in the district. The Jewish Central Education Committee oversaw their activities.
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Talmud Torah
- System of arrangement:
- There are three inventories.
- Access, restrictions:
- Some documents are restricted.
- Finding aids:
- Brief information on the collection and detailed inventories are available 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
