Metadata: Press and Information Administration of the Ukrainian People’s Republic; Kiev, Vinnitsa, Rovno, Kamenets-Podol’skii
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:
- 24 Solomianska Str., 03110 Kyiv
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-36-66
- Web address:
- tsdavo.gov.ua
- Email:
- tsdavo@archives.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 1113
- Title:
- Press and Information Administration of the Ukrainian People’s Republic; Kiev, Vinnitsa, Rovno, Kamenets-Podol’skii
- Title (official language):
- Управление печати и информации Украинской Народной Республики, г. г. Киев – Винница – Ровно – Каменец-Подольский
- Creator/accumulator:
- Press and Information Administration of the Ukrainian People’s Republic; Kiev, Vinnitsa, Rovno, Kamenets-Podol’skii
- Date(s):
- 1917/1921
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- German
- Russian
- Extent:
- 371 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are materials on the politicization of the Jewish population during the revolutionary situation of 1917; on Jewish political parties’ struggle for influence among the Jewish population; declarations of local United Jewish Socialist Workers’ Party (Fareynikte) organizations recognizing the Provisional Government as the supreme power in Russia, and the Central Rada and its General Secretariat as the supreme power in Ukraine; Zionists’ petitions for additional seats in the UNR General Secretariat; resolutions of local Zionist organizations’ assemblies, conferences, and meetings protesting the Ukrainian government’s decision to name M. I. Zil’berfarb vice-secretary of interethnic affairs (1917), and resolutions of Fareynikte representatives supporting him. There are particular groups of documents containing information on measures taken by the UNR government to aid Jews having suffered from pogroms, including a Ministry of Jewish Affairs communiqué on the results of a survey of pogrom-stricken cities and towns; a decree of the UNR Council of Ministers and an explication thereof, and a log of a session of the UNR Finance Ministry’s finance commission on allocating 20 million grivnas to the Ministry of Jewish Affairs to be used to aid pogrom victims (1919); a pamphlet (author unknown) titled “Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Ukraine and the Ukrainian National Movement” (1921); materials on measures taken by the UNR Directorate toward normalizing Ukrainian-Jewish relations and recruiting the Jewish masses into the struggle against Soviet power, including reports on speeches by representatives of the Folkspartei and Zeire Zion supporting the Ukrainian government (1919); a universal [decree] of the Council of People’s Ministers and an appeal by S. V. Petliura calling upon the Ukrainian people to prevent pogroms against Jews; an appeal by the Insurgency Committee of Volhynia and Podolia to the Jewish population urging them to aid the UNR Army with money and weapons (1921), etc.; materials on the legislative activities of the Ukrainian government vis-à-vis guaranteeing the rights of national minorities (drafts of the National Minorities’ Equality Covenant, with the statute on national-personal autonomy, and of the charter on state schools; etc.). There are also issues of bulletins of the UNR Ministry of Jewish Affairs’ Jewish Press Bureau in Ukraine containing informational reports on the negative effects the Bolshevik policy of war communism was having on Jews, on Soviet repression of Jewish religious, community, and political figures, on the Bolsheviks’ closing of Jewish cultural and charitable organizations, and on pogroms perpetrated by Red Army units; correspondence of the Ministry of Jewish Affairs with structural subdivisions of the UNR government and private individuals, including a letter of M. A. Gorenshtein, a former member of the UNR Ministry of Jewish Affairs’ National Council and the All-Ukrainian Jewish National Assembly, and head of the Kiev City Committee to Aid Pogrom Victims, describing the catastrophic state of the Jewish population of Ukraine (March 1921); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Press and Information Administration of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR) (subsequently the UNR Press and Propaganda Ministry) was organised and functioned as part of the Directorate, which was established in November 1918 in an uprising against Hetman P. Skoropads’kyi as a provisional revolutionary entity and subsequently reorganised as the supreme state body of the UNR. From 1918-22, depending on the military situation, the Ukrainian government (including the Press and Propaganda Ministry) was based in Kiev, Vinnitsa, Rovno, and Kamenets-Podol’skii. The ministry was tasked with keeping the Ukrainian government informed on the situation on the fronts and the political situation in the rear; and also with taking propaganda and counter-propaganda measures in Ukraine and abroad to further the UNR government’s military and political aims.
- Access points: locations:
- Kamenets-Podol’skii
- Kiev
- Rovno
- Vinnitsa
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gorenshtein, M. A.
- Petliura, S.
- Zil’berfarb, M.
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Antisemitism
- Civil rights
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Education
- Jewish political activity
- Jewish press
- Legal matters
- Pogroms
- Revolutions
- Socialism
- Socialism--Socialist parties and organisations
- Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties
- Zionism--Zionists
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes four inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
