Metadata: Ukrainian Central Rada; Kiev and Zhitomir
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади і управління України
- Postal address:
- 03110, м. Київ-110, вул. Солом’янська, 24
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-36-66
- Web address:
- http://tsdavo.gov.ua/
- Email:
- tsdavo@archives.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 1115
- Title:
- Ukrainian Central Rada; Kiev and Zhitomir
- Title (official language):
- Украинская Центральная Рада (УЦР), г.г. Киев – Житомир
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ukrainian Central Rada; Kiev and Zhitomir
- Date(s):
- 1917/1918
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Russian
- Extent:
- 84 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Documents housed in the fond include the law on national-personal autonomy in Ukraine, the force of which extended, in particular, to the Jewish population; draft legislation on a Jewish national constituent assembly and the Provisional Jewish National Assembly; a law on the Kiev Jewish Teachers’ Seminary, and a draft of its charter and curriculum; information on the holding of elections to city dumas and lists of members of voting blocs, including candidates put forward by Jewish political parties, public organizations, and the Jewish communities of cities; statistical data on the ethnic makeup of the urban population, and of city government bodies; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Established in Kiev in March 1917 as a city-level public-political organisation, this body in time became a leading entity in the Ukrainian national liberation movement; after the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR) was proclaimed, the Central Rada served as the supreme legislative state body. The Ukrainian Central Rada’s executive body was its General Secretariat (reorganised in January 1918 as the Council of People’s Ministers). Along with other governmental structures, it included a General Secretariat of Jewish Affairs (subsequently the Ministry of Jewish Affairs). The Ukrainian Central Rada had at first held to the principles of federalism and autonomy within the new post-tsarist Russian Republic, but in January 1918, it issued its Fourth Universal [decree] declaring Ukrainian independence.
With regard to the Jewish population of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Central Rada’s Third Universal proclaimed national-personal autonomy, i.e., the right of all Ukrainian Jews “to the independent arrangement of their national life through the mediation of bodies of the [Jewish] National Union.” A law on national-personal autonomy was adopted, and legislation was prepared on a Jewish national constituent assembly and the Provisional Jewish National Assembly, and its charter was drawn up. Legislative acts of the Ukrainian Central Rada also dealt with Jewish educational institutions. The Organising Commission subordinate to the Central Rada oversaw elections to city government bodies; and a number of cities had Jewish voting blocs. The Ukrainian Central Rada fled Kiev in February 1918 in the course of the Civil War; in March of the same year it returned to Kiev along with German forces. It was disbanded by the German occupation authorities on 29 April 1918.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory implicitly structured by subject.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary