Metadata: Association of Karaite history and literature enthusiasts
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. 289
- Title:
- Association of Karaite history and literature enthusiasts
- Title (official language):
- Karaimų istorijos ir literatūros mylėtojų draugija
- Date(s):
- 1932/1937
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Polish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 6 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection contains documents on the Association of Karaite History and Literature Enthusiasts including the association’s statutes (inventory 1, file 1), excerpts of minutes of membership meetings (inventory 1, file 2), financial and accounting documents (inventory 1, files 3-4) correspondence on Karaite history, culture, yearbook dissemination, and cooperation with foreign education institutions, as well as inquiries about job vacancies at the Association.
- Archival history:
- The LCVA was established in 1921, following a statute of the Lithuanian Board of Education. In 1940, when the Soviets occupied Lithuania, the NKVD took over the archive. During the Nazi occupation of 1941-1944, the archive continued its activities and was renamed the Vilnius National Archive. Following the second Soviet occupation of 1944, the NKVD regained control of the archives. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the archive was renamed the Lithuanian Central State Archive. This fonds was organised in 1949/1952.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Association of Karaite History and Literature Enthusiasts was established in Vilnius in 1932. Its goal was to support and encourage its members’ interest in Karaite language, history, culture and literature. It published a chronicle called “Karaite Thoughts”, organised traditional Karaite holiday celebrations, lectures, excursions, and concerts. The Association was closed in 1940.
- Access points: locations:
- Vilnius
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Financial records
- Karaite Judaism
- Literature
- System of arrangement:
- There is one inventory.
- 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
