Metadata: Ukrainian Historical Office in Prague (Czechoslovakia)
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. 3866
- Title:
- Ukrainian Historical Office in Prague (Czechoslovakia)
- Title (official language):
- Украинский исторический кабинет в г. Праге (Чехословакия)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ukrainian Historical Office in Prague (Czechoslovakia)
- Date(s):
- 1925/1945
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Yiddish
- Polish
- Czech
- Extent:
- 255 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are documents on the participation of Jewish political parties in elections to the People’s Assembly of Czechoslovakia (1925). Among these are appeals and leaflets laying out election platforms and calling on voters to support candidates from Jewish parties; and a comparison chart showing Jewish representation in the People’s Assembly in various years. There is also a proclamation by the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Workers’ Party (USDRP) titled “To Ukrainian Workers and Peasants” on Sholem Schwarzbard’s assassination of Symon Petliura, head of the Ukrainian government in exile, in Paris; this proclamation denies charges of anti-Semitism in the Ukrainian national movement, and blames the Bolsheviks for pogroms against Jews in Ukraine during the Civil War.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Ukrainian National Archive Museum was established in Prague in 1923 by the Ukrainian Public Committee; its purpose was to collect, systematise, and preserve documents and exhibits on the history of the Ukrainian national movement. From 1925 on, it was run by the Ukrainian Ethnology Institute; in late 1929, it was reorganised as the Ukrainian Historical Office, whose structure included departments of books and journals and of the press and documents. In early 1939, it was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Czechoslovakia. It ceased to exist upon the end of the Second World War and the Sovietisation of Czechoslovakia.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Petliura, S.
- Schwarzbard, Sholem
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Civil wars
- Jewish political activity
- Legal matters
- Pogroms
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes three inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary