Ministry of Education of the Ukrainian State; Kiev

Collection

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

Title (official language):: Министерство просвещения Украинской Державы, г. Киев

Scope and content:: Housed in the fond are questionnaire forms on the ethnic makeup of particular educational institutions; a file on the operation of the Ekaterinoslav Jewish Research Institute, and official lists of its professors; correspondence on the opening of local-level Jewish schools and, in particular, of the Khar’kov Jewish Trade School; documents on the reorganisation of Jewish pedagogical courses as teachers’ seminaries; on the operation of the S. I. Brodskii Kiev Jewish School with Vocational Department, the Kremenchug Jewish Trade School, and the Labor Society’s Odessa Jewish Trade School; correspondence with the State Office on the Jewish students’ organization Ha-Talmid in the town of Bar (Podolia province), and with the Department of Extracurricular Education on allocating funds to develop extracurricular education for the Russian, Polish, and Jewish population. There is also the charter of the Jewish cultural-educational society Tarbut; a decree liquidating the Ministries of Great Russian and Jewish Affairs; information on the professional activities of Jewish teachers; etc.

Administrative/biographical history:: This was established as part of the Ukrainian government under the Hetmanate of P. P. Skoropads’kii in May 1918. On 21 June 1918, it was reorganised as the Ministry of Education and the Arts. It oversaw the activities of higher, secondary, professional, and elementary educational institutions of Ukraine, including Jewish ones, of which a considerable number existed thanks to the relative political and economic stability that characterized most of the Hetmanate period. It ceased operations after the December 1918 coup that brought the Directorate government to power.

Subject terms:: Education; Education--Schools and universities; Education--Student organisations; Education--Teachers and professors; Education--Vocational training; Statistics

System of arrangement:: The fond includes five inventories. Op. 1 and 2 are systematised according to the structural-chronological principle; op. 3-5, which are supplemental to former, have no express structure.