Metadata: Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Education’s Central Jewish Bureau of Soviet National Minorities; Kiev
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. 3298
- Title:
- Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Education’s Central Jewish Bureau of Soviet National Minorities; Kiev
- Title (official language):
- Центральное еврейское бюро советско-национальных меньшинств при Народном комиссариате просвещения УССР (Центральное бюро совнацмен), г. Киев
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Education’s Central Jewish Bureau of Soviet National Minorities; Kiev
- Date(s):
- 1922/1933
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 6 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are documents on the work of republic-level educational institutions with Yiddish-language instruction, and on the professional training of Jews; instructional curricula of various subjects as taught at Jewish educational institutions of Ukraine; materials of the Second All-Union Conference of Jewish Education Workers (Khar’kov, 1928); proceedings of the bureau of the Jewish section of the Kiev Provincial Executive Committee, a report on the work thereof for 1922-23, and a report of an investigative commission on a pogrom perpetrated by Red Army personnel of the 391st Tarashcha Regiment in the town of Korsun’ (Kiev province) (11-18 May 1920).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Central Jewish Bureau functioned in the 1920s-30s and dealt with issues of Jewish education, including professional training. Bureau personnel supervised the operations of Jewish educational institutions in the territory of Ukraine and developed curricula for same; and they were involved in organising children’s shelters for orphaned Jewish children, and in aiding Jewish pogrom victims. At the same time, the Central Jewish Bureau carried out broad propaganda work among Jews; this activity included accompanying the mass closing of Jewish religious schools and synagogues with campaigns against Jewish nationalism (Zionism) and clericalism.
- Access points: locations:
- Khar’kov
- Kiev
- Kiev province
- Korsun’
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single unstructured inventory.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary