Metadata: [Photography Fond]
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- V. H. Pshenychnyi Central State Cinema, Photography, and Sound Archive of Ukraine
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний кінофотофоноархів України ім. Г.С. Пшеничного
- Postal address:
- 03110, м. Київ-110, вул. Солом'янська, 24
- Phone number:
- 380 (44) 275-37-77
- Web address:
- tsdkffa.archives.gov.ua
- Email:
- tsdkffa@arch.gov.ua
- Title:
- [Photography Fond]
- Title (official language):
- [Фотофонд]
- Date(s):
- 1853/2005
- Extent:
- 379,477 storage units
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
-
A considerable number of photo documents included pertain to various aspects of Jewish history and culture. Among these are photo reproductions depicting particular features of the everyday and public life of Ukrainian Jews in the prerevolutionary period: a Jewish family returning from the fair at Sarny (Volhynia province); an overview of the Galician (Jewish) Bazaar in Kiev; a Jewish delegation – Rabbis A. B. Gurevich and Ia. M. Aleshkovskii and the businessman A. M. Gol’denberg – welcoming Nicholas II during his visit to Kiev in 1911; a demonstration of Jewish organisations on Kiev’s Bibikov Boulevard in 1917; etc.); photographs recording victims of the anti-Jewish pogroms during the Civil War in Ukraine that were carried out by the various sides involved (in Kiev, Elizavetgrad, Proskurov, Fastov, Cherkassy, Demievka, Teofipol’, Trostianets, and other cities and towns), burned and looted Jewish homes and shops, and members of Jewish self-defence detachments; and illustrations of synagogues and other religious buildings and Jewish communal institutions, including Jewish hospitals, almshouses, schools, and Talmud Torahs.
The 1920s-30s are represented by photographs of Jewish educational institutions such as schools, pedagogical courses, and technicums, and of classes in them; workdays at Jewish kolkhozes; Jewish kolkhoz farmers and participants in resettlement campaigns; Jewish delegates to congresses and conferences; and Jews vacationing at the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population (OZE) sanatorium in Alushta; etc. There is also a selection of portraits and photo reproductions devoted to Sholom Aleichem; several photographs of post-revolutionary Jewish writers and poets (David Hofshtein, Itzik Fefer, Lipe Reznik, Abram Kahan, A. Ia. Katsev, and others); photos recording events pertaining to the Holocaust, particularly the mass shootings at Babi Yar; and the Jewish public and cultural renaissance in Ukraine in the 1990s (Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk’s reception of Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress; ceremonial processions during Jewish religious holidays; performances by Jewish theatre and music collectives; etc).
- Access points: persons/families:
- Aleshkovskii, Ia. M.
- Bronfman, Edgar
- Fefer, Itzik
- Gol’denberg, A. M.
- Gurevich, A. B.
- Hofshtein, David
- Kahan, Abram
- Katsev, A. Ia.
- Kravchuk, L. M.
- Nicholas II
- Reznik, Lipe
- Sholem Aleichem
- Subject terms:
- Civil wars
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Talmud Torah
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Hospitals
- Jewish community
- Jewish daily life and religious practices
- Jewish holidays
- Jewish kolkhoz
- Jewish self-defence and resistance
- Literature
- Literature--Writers, poets, and playwrights
- Mass murder
- Music
- Photographs
- Pogroms
- Rabbis
- Resettlement of Jews
- Synagogues
- Theatre
- System of arrangement:
- The archive’s photography collection is catalogued; systematisation is thematic, with rubrics and sub-rubrics. The catalogue cards also typically have control prints.
- Finding aids:
- A catalogue is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
