Metadata: Secondary School Directorate (Riga)
Collection
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- Latvian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs
- Postal address:
- 16 Slokas Street, Rīga, 1048
- Phone number:
- +371 20 017 505
- Reference number:
- 6647
- Title:
- Secondary School Directorate (Riga)
- Title (official language):
- Vidusskolu direkcija (Rīga)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Secondary School Directorate (Riga)
- Date(s):
- 1919/1940
- Language:
- Latvian
- Russian
- Extent:
- 1,868 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains documents of the Secondary School Directorate (Riga). It includes School Department circulars; minutes of meetings of pedagogical councils and meetings of school principals; school activity reports; correspondence with schools on teaching, pedagogy, accounting and economic matters; personnel documents, etc.
More than 70 items in the collection are related to the activities of Jewish secondary schools in Latvia, including correspondence about recruiting teachers, financing, admitting students, working with the private J. Rauchvarger Private Jewish Gymnasium, the Tora Vderech Eretz Private Jewish Gymnasium, the Tushiya Jewish Gymnasium of the Heder Msukon Society, the Gymnasium of the Ventspils Jewish community; information about the participation of Jewish students in the activities of leftist organisations; correspondence with the Jelgava Society for the Promotion of Jewish Culture and the Jelgava Private Jewish Gymnasium about educational work; the payment of benefits to students from Courland and Latgale of the Hebrew branch of the Riga City Jewish Gymnasium; correspondence with the Ezra Private Jewish Gymnasium in Riga about the participation of pupils in the dissemination of communist appeals, financing of the gymnasium, appointment of teachers, educational work, etc.; correspondence with the S. Gorfinkel Private Jewish Elementary and Secondary School in Riga about the admission of students, the closure of the school, etc.; correspondence with the S. Lieberman Private Jewish Gymnasium in Riga on the admission of teachers, approval of the charter of the gymnasium, admission of students to exams; lists of teachers and report on the audit of the S. Lieberman Gymnasium, etc.; correspondence with the Gymnasium of the Society for the Promotion of Jewish Art and Science in Latvia on the approval of teachers, the opening of additional classes, the dissolution of the gymnasium, budget, examination records; correspondence with the Evening Gymnasium of the Hamore Latvian Society of Jewish Teachers about the closure of the school; the dissolution of the Ludza Jewish Gymnasium; correspondence with the Daugavpils City Jewish Gymnasium and the City Council about the maintenance of the educational institution, holding prohibited meetings of students, exemption of schoolchildren from tuition fees, discipline of students, hiring and dismissing teachers, etc.; correspondence with the Liepaja Jewish Gymnasium on recruiting teachers, funding, school activities, etc.; correspondence with the Rezekne State Jewish Gymnasium, the Riga City Jewish Gymnasium and the Riga Region Political Administration about the arrest of students for distributing communist proclamations, hiring teachers; correspondence with the Riga Jewish Public Gymnasium on student admission, budget, exams; correspondence with the Gymnasium of the Riga Jewish community and the Riga Society of Jewish gymnasiums about hiring teachers, etc.
- 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:
- In Latvia in 1919-1940, basic 6-year education was considered compulsory and free. Further education could be continued in secondary school or gymnasium, which lasted 4 or 5 years. In 1919, laws were passed on the formation of the Latvian education system and the organisation of schools for national minorities. The Jewish Education Department worked under the Ministry of Education of Latvia in 1919-1934. This department was headed by Yakov Landau, who made a huge contribution to Jewish education in Latvia. In the 1919-1920 academic year there were 21 elementary schools and 4 secondary schools throughout Latvia. By the 1927-1928 academic year, this number had grown to 83 elementary schools and 19 secondary schools.
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Jana Makarova
