Metadata: L. N. Nisselovich
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Київ
- Postal address:
- 03110, м. Київ-110, вул. Солом'янська, 24
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-30-02
- Web address:
- cdiak.archives.gov.ua
- Email:
- mail.cdiak@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 1004
- Title:
- L. N. Nisselovich
- Title (official language):
- Нисселович Л. Н.
- Creator/accumulator:
- L. N. Nisselovich
- Date(s):
- 1883/1927
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- German
- French
- Extent:
- 181 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included is biographical information on L. N. Nisselovich; manuscripts of his works (Toward a History of a Judicial Inquisition; Truth Above All; Party Leadership in the Third State Duma; Thoughts and Meditations of a Jew; etc.); texts of public lectures and reports; printed reviews of L. N. Nisselovich’s dissertation; materials on his official and public activities (texts of his speeches in the State Duma; stenograms of Duma sessions; lists of L. N. Nisselovich’s draft legislation; reports and newspaper articles on his activities as a deputy; letters to him from Jewish associations and various individuals; statistical information on the Jewish population of Russia; and materials collected by L. N. Nisselovich: excerpts from law codes of the Russian Empire; complaints of the Jewish population against actions of local authorities; materials on the Kishinev pogrom of 1903; manuscripts and pamphlets of various authors, newspapers and clippings. There are also materials of L. N. Nisselovich’s wife Anna Romanovna Nisselovich, in particular, telegrams to her from Jewish associations and private individuals.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Lazar’ (Eliezer) Nisselovich (Leopol’d Nikolaevich; 1856-1914) was a lawyer, commentator, and public figure. He was born in the city of Bauska in the Kurlandiia [Courland] province (now the Republic of Latvia). An 1880 graduate of St. Petersburg University Law School, he served in the Ministry of Finance and authored several works on the history of legislation on factories and plants in the Russian Empire and on Russian commercial and financial institutions. Leaving the state service in 1882, he became an attorney [prisiazhnyi poverennyi] in the St. Petersburg Judicial Chamber and assistant legal counsel of the State Bank. In 1907 he was elected to the State Duma, where he joined the Constitutional Democrat [Kadety] or People’s Freedom [Narodnaia svoboda] caucus, reserving the right to be independent vis-à-vis “the Jewish question.” In 1910 he initiated draft legislation to dissolve the Pale of Settlement, which, however, was not taken up due to resistance from the right-leaning majority; in 1911 he initiated draft legislation to introduce Yiddish-language instruction in elementary schools in localities with a significant Jewish population, and this legislation was supported by the Duma. At the same time, he decried the anti-Semitic campaign waged by reactionaries in the press after D. G. Bogrov’s assassination of Prime Minister P. A. Stolypin. Nisselovich authored the polemical account The Jewish Question in the Third State Duma (1908), a pamphlet on Jews’ lack of civil rights titled How Long? A Tearful Supplication to God, the Righteous Creator of the Universe! (1912), and other works. He died in Geneva.
- Access points: locations:
- Kishinev
- Access points: persons/families:
- Nisselovich, Anna Romanovna
- Nisselovich, L. N.
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Legal matters
- Manuscripts
- Personal records
- Pogroms
- Publishing
- Statistics
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory systematised by subject.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary