Metadata: Ministry of Religion and Education of the Kingdom of Hungary
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Archives of Vojvodina
- Holding institution (official language):
- Архив Војводине (Arhiv Vojvodine)
- Postal address:
- Žarka Vasiljevića 2а, 21101 Novi Sad
- Phone number:
- (+381 21) 4891-800
- Web address:
- https://www.arhivvojvodine.org.rs/index.php
- Email:
- info@arhivvojvodine.org.rs
- Reference number:
- F. 36
- Title:
- Ministry of Religion and Education of the Kingdom of Hungary
- Title (official language):
- Ministarstvo vera i prosvete Kraljevine Ugarske
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ministry of Religion and Education of the Kingdom of Hungary
- Date(s):
- 1867/1918
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Serbian
- Extent:
- 7 linear metres (53 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The records of the Ministry of Religion and Education of the Kingdom of Hungary referred, in addition to other content, to the Jewish elementary schools, Jewish teachers and other workers in the schools in the towns Ada, Žabalj, Vrbas, Bajmok, Bezdan and Baja. More detailed items referred to the Jewish teachers Jozef Volg, Ignac Šober, Jozef Volf, Dr Mor Rozenštajn.
Documents provided details of school activities and the education of Jewish children, such as: the school inspector of Bacs-Bodrog County visited the Jewish school in Žabalj in 1913 and recorded that the official language in school was Hungarian and that 30 pupils attended the school. The Jewish school in Ada filed a request to be allowed to exempt the classes devoted to agriculture, but the request was denied; there are records on allowances, wages and problems with salary payments; increasing of family allowances for teachers; a residence permit for a teacher of a Jewish school in Baja for the amount of 360 kroner per person was approved; a problem with payment of salaries was petitioned by a Jewish school teacher to the school superintendent of Bačka-Bodroška County demanding the payment from the religious community; a warning on late payment, i.e. the fees of a Jewish catechist who taught at a girls' school in Greater Kikinda. The collection also includes minutes of meetings of teachers' councils of the Jewish elementary school and of the Girls' and Boys' Public School in Baja; reports on forms used to create school register books; report of 1896 on a special meeting of Administrative Board of Bačka-Bodroška County which discussed the distribution of the Fund for Education to public and religious schools (Catholic and Jewish).
- Archival history:
- The collection was kept in the National Archives in Budapest. Part of it was restituted to the Archives of Vojvodina, mostly documents referring to Bačka, Torontalska and Tamiška counties. The collection was arranged according to the office registry numbers. In 1980 it was arranged in alphabetical order of the towns and in 2013, during the revision of the fonds, the documents were rearranged in alphabetical order.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Ministry of Religion and Education of the Kingdom of Hungary was created according to the Law on Constitution of Independent Ministries, article III, from 1848. It was cancelled in 1849 and did not work again until 1867 when it was reestablished with Austro-Hungarian agreement and was active until 1918. First minister was József Eötvös. The Ministry had a mandate to manage, synchronise and control activities of institutions dealing with education and implementing educational activities. The Ministry issued decrees, competitions and all official information published in Official Messenger of the Ministry twice a month. After Austro-Hungarian agreement, József Eötvös, minister of religion and education in the government of Gyula Andrássy, laid the foundations of elementary education.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Rozenštajn, Mor
- Šober, Ignac
- Volf, Jozef
- Volg, Jozef
- System of arrangement:
- The collection was arranged according to towns in alphabetical order, and chronologically within each town. Documents referring to towns which are now outside Vojvodina were placed at the end of the collection.
- Finding aids:
- The following finding aids are available: summary inventory; administrative history; analytical inventory; geographical register.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Snežana Božanić; Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad; 2019
