All-Ukrainian Committee of the All-Union Union of Education Workers; Khar’kov

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:: All-Ukrainian Committee of the All-Union Union of Education Workers; Khar’kov

Title (official language):: Всеукраинский комитет Всесоюзного профессионального союза работников просвещения, г. Харьков

Creator/accumulator:: All-Ukrainian Committee of the All-Union Union of Education Workers; Khar’kov

Scope and content:: Included are stenograms of All-Ukrainian Congresses of Education Workers and reports of local branches of the Union of Education Workers containing information on the state of work among national minorities, including Jews (statistical data on the number of Jewish labour schools, and of teachers fluent in Yiddish; data on the existence of Jewish libraries and of Yiddish-language books in general libraries; etc.) There is also correspondence on L. G. Shur, a teacher at the 8th Kherson Labour School who was accused of antisemitism and was fired in 1929.

Administrative/biographical history:: Beginning in 1917, the Central Committee of the All-Russian Union of Education Workers had a Southern Bureau based in Khar’kov; this entity oversaw local labour union organisations and coordinated various aspects of the activities of education workers in Soviet Ukraine. In late 1921, in connection with a merger with the Union of Arts Workers, this entity became the Southern Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Union of Education and Arts Workers. In May 1922, the 3rd plenary session of this union’s central committee ruled that the merged unions should be separated once more, and the Southern Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Union of Education Workers was reestablished; on 23 July 1923, this was renamed the Ukrainian Bureau of the Central Committee of the Union of Education Workers; on 27 December 1924, the All-Ukrainian Central Administration of the Union of Education Workers; and in late 1926, the All-Ukrainian Committee of the Union of Education Workers. The latter was liquidated pursuant to a resolution (16 May 1934) of the presidium of the All-Ukrainian Council of Labour Unions.

Subject terms:: Antisemitism; Education; Education--Schools and universities; Education--Teachers and professors; Jewish languages; Jewish languages--Yiddish; Libraries; Statistics

System of arrangement:: The fond includes five inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.