Metadata: Documents Gathered by the Jewish Historical-Archeographic Commission of the Historical-Philological Department of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Collection)
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. 1423
- Title:
- Documents Gathered by the Jewish Historical-Archeographic Commission of the Historical-Philological Department of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Collection)
- Title (official language):
- Документы, собранные Еврейской историко-археографической комиссией при Историко-филологическом отделении Всеукраинской академии наук (коллекция)
- Creator/accumulator:
- The Jewish Historical-Archeographic Commission of the Historical-Philological Department of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
- Date(s):
- 1519/1923
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Polish
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 42 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- The collection constitutes excerpts from archival files and copies and descriptions of documents reflecting various aspects of the political, economic, cultural, and religious life of Jews in the territory of what is now Ukraine in the mid-seventeenth century; for example, a manuscript of Rabbi Shabetai ben Me’ir ha-Kohen’s “Tale of the Time of Darkness”, or the Dark Chronicle “Megilat ‘efah,” a description of massacres during the Khmel’nyts’kyi Uprising [1648-49]); documents on Hasidism and the Twersky Hasidic rebbes, including letters and notes of L. M. Binshtok, M. I. Kulisher, and G. M. Barats; on the state of crown rabbis in the Southwestern territory and the Russian authorities’ struggle against the tradition of collecting funds to aid Jewish communities in Palestine; on Jewish education in Russia, particularly on the history of the Zhitomir Rabbinical Seminary and its reorganization as the Jewish Teachers’ Institute; on the censorship of Jewish books and the Zhitomir Jewish Publishing House of the Shapiro brothers; on the legal status of Jews; on manifestations of antisemitism and pogroms against Jews in the southwestern provinces of Russia (in 1881-82 and during the Civil War); on the Zionist movement, including on the involvement therein of S. G. Frug and Kh-N. Bialik; on Jewish poets and writers (documents on the censorship history of works of Sholom Aleichem, and copies of his correspondence, opened and inspected by postal censors, with the Tolstoyans V. G. Chertkov and P. A. Bulanzhe; verses, longer narrative poems, and fairy tales of S. G. Frug; copies of letters of G. I. Bogrov; etc.). There are also excerpts from official document registers of the Kiev Central Archive of Ancient Records; copies of documents on Jewish charitable associations, trade guilds, and agricultural colonies; statistical information on the Jewish population of Kiev; I. V. Galant’s article “The Execution of Dmitrii Bogrov”; copies of documents on the situation in Kiev after the assassination in that city of P. A. Stolypin, when a pogrom was thought to be imminent; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Jewish Historical-Archeographic Commission was established at the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1919 at the initiative of the historian I. V. Galant, who became its de facto head. (Formally, the commission was chaired by All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Vice President D. I. Bagalei, then by Standing Secretary A. E. Krymskii.) The commission operated intermittently until 1929. Its activities consisted mainly of finding, describing, and publishing sources on the history of Jews in Ukraine. Members of the commission (who initially included, besides Galant, the prominent Hebraists B.-Ts. Dinaburg, Ia. I. Izrael’son, and A. M. Kagan) managed to collect and make copies of a considerable quantity of valuable documents from Kiev archives, as well as publish a number of works and prepare and publish two collections of studies (Zbirnyk prats’ Zhydivs’koi istorychno-arkheohrafichnoi komisii, kn. 1 [Kiev, 1928]; Zbirnyk prats’ Evreis’koi istorychno-arkheohrafichnoi komisii, kn. 2 [Kiev, 1929]). However, after the founding in late 1926 of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Jewish Culture (whose establishment was virtually foisted upon the academy by the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Education and party entities), and after several years of persecution and badgering, the commission was liquidated in 1929.
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Antisemitism
- Censorship
- Correspondence
- Cossacks
- Crown rabbis
- Education
- Hasidic Judaism
- Jewish colonies
- Jewish community
- Legal matters
- Legal status of Jews
- Literature
- Literature--Writers, poets, and playwrights
- Pogroms
- Publishing
- Statistics
- Trade and commerce
- Zionism
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory without any expressed structure.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
