Metadata: P. A. Dolgikh Private Jewish Gymnasium (Riga)
Collection
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- Latvian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs
- Postal address:
- Slokas iela 16, Rīga, 1048
- Phone number:
- +371 20 017 505
- Reference number:
- 3176
- Title:
- P. A. Dolgikh Private Jewish Gymnasium (Riga)
- Title (official language):
- P.A. Dolgiha privātā ebreju ģimnāzija (Rīga)
- Creator/accumulator:
- P. A. Dolgikh Private Jewish Gymnasium (Riga)
- Date(s):
- 1921/1931
- Language:
- Latvian
- Russian
- Extent:
- 20 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection comprises documents of the P A Dolgikh Private Jewish Gymnasium including orders, instructions, circulars on the activities of the school and the recruitment of teachers; minutes of meetings of the pedagogical council, reviews of the activities of the school and its composition, student lists, student report cards, copies of birth certificates, teacher certificates, minutes of the verification commission, examination sheets, and academic records.
In the summer of 1925, the P A Dolgikh Gymnasium, along with 10 other private schools teaching in Russian, where most of the students were Jewish, was transferred to the leadership of the Jewish Department of the Ministry of Education. Hebrew and Jewish culture were introduced into the program of these schools. However, there were problems, as evidenced in the documents in this fonds. For example, on 9 September 1925, the leadership of the gymnasium, in a letter to the Jewish Department, asked whether it was possible to replace Hebrew exams in the final grade with an exam in Jewish literature and history in Russian, since the students began to study Hebrew only that year and would not be able to pass the exam. To this, the Jewish Education Department replied that the gymnasium should provide a program for studying Jewish literature and history, as well as indicate the teacher who would teach these subjects.
- Archival history:
- After World War II materials from the interwar period, along with earlier materials, were part of the Central State Archive of the Latvian SSR. In 1962 it was decided to reorganise the archive and it was renamed the Central State Historical Archives of the Latvian SSR. The materials predating the period of Soviet rule were deposited in this archive, predecessor of the current State Historical Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The P A Dolgikh Gymnasium was opened in the early 20th century. In the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s it was located at 117 Dzirnavu Street in Riga. In 1925, 160 Jews and 2 Russians studied at the gymnasium. The certificate of the gymnasium dated 15 November 1927 states that there were 78 female students.
- Access points: locations:
- Riga
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Jana Makarova, Riga