Metadata: Ministry of Education of the Ukrainian People’s Republic; Kiev, Vinnitsa, Kamenets-Podol’skii, Poland
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. 2582
- Title:
- Ministry of Education of the Ukrainian People’s Republic; Kiev, Vinnitsa, Kamenets-Podol’skii, Poland
- Title (official language):
- Министерство народного просвещения Украинской Народной Республики, г.г. Киев –Винница – Каменец-Подольский – Польша
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ministry of Education of the Ukrainian People’s Republic; Kiev, Vinnitsa, Kamenets-Podol’skii, Poland
- Date(s):
- 1918/1921
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 470 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Materials housed in the fond include correspondence of the Ministry of Education with public organizations and private individuals on opening Jewish educational institutions; a petition to reorganise M. M. Grinshtein’s private Jewish girls’ school in Zhitomir as a seven-grade girls’ school [gimnaziia], and a letter of the Zhitomir City Education Committee supporting this petition (1918); a memorandum of Communal Rabbi Z. N. Krupitskii, owner of the Vinnitsa Jewish high school [gimnaziia] Kadima, on determining the status of the school’s students, and an official letter of the Ministry of Jewish Affairs requesting that the school be supported (on the condition that, while instruction would be conducted in Hebrew, the curriculum would also include Ukrainian studies; 1918); materials on the foundation of a public Jewish high school [gimnaziia] in Khmel’nik by the Jewish Society for the Promotion of Culture and Knowledge, and on this school’s being granted the status of state educational institution (1918-19); information on the representation of Jews among students of various high schools [gimnazii] and commercial and trade schools and colleges, and on the activities of Jewish representatives on the boards of regents and supervisory bodies of these institutions, and on instruction offered by these institutions in the fundamentals of Judaism; a list of teachers of the Kiev Jewish high school [gimnaziia] of A. M. Kozarinskii (1919) and a printed charter of the Odessa Jewish Trade School; a document issued to a student of the Pereiaslav Commercial School allowing him to not attend classes on Saturdays; a request by the Kultur-Lige Central Committee for assistance in obtaining a foreign travel permit for the doctor R. Gitler, who was attempting to go to Switzerland to study school hygiene; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was established in December 1918 as part of the newly-formed government of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR) Directorate, the provisional revolutionary state body that came to power in Ukraine after the overthrow of the Hetmanate and reestablishment of the UNR. In January 1919, Eastern and Western Ukraine were declared united as a single state with its capital in Kiev, with power remaining in the hands of the Directorate government. Due to the advance of the Red Army in February 1919, the Directorate was forced to move from Kiev to Vinnitsa, and thereafter repeatedly changed its place of operation. By 1921 its executive structures had for all intents and purposes become a “government in exile.” Under the jurisdiction of the UNR Ministry of Education were the various educational institutions of Ukraine (including Jewish ones), preschools, and children’s shelters. During the period in which the Directorate held actual power in Ukraine, the Ministry of Education also oversaw cultural entities, and in early 1919 was called the Ministry of Education and Culture. As the Directorate regime was ousted from Ukrainian territory, the UNR Ministry of Education’s authority increasingly shrank, ultimately limited to theoretical issues pertaining to Ukrainian national education.
- Access points: locations:
- Kamenets-Podol’skii
- Khmel’nik
- Kiev
- Poland
- Switzerland
- Vinnitsa
- Zhitomir
- Access points: persons/families:
- Grinshtein, M. M.
- Kozarinskii, A. M.
- Krupitskii, Z. N.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes four inventories. Op. 1 (the main one) and op. 3 (supplemental) are systematised according to the structural-thematic principle; op. 4 includes individual personnel files.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary