Belaia Tserkov’ Women’s High School [gimnaziia], City of Belaia Tserkov’, Belaia Tserkov’ County, Kiev Province

Collection

Title:: Belaia Tserkov’ Women’s High School [gimnaziia], City of Belaia Tserkov’, Belaia Tserkov’ County, Kiev Province

Title (official language):: Белоцерковская женская гимназия г. Белая Церковь Белоцерковского уезда Киевской губернии

Creator/accumulator:: Belaia Tserkov’ Women’s High School [gimnaziia], City of Belaia Tserkov’, Belaia Tserkov’ County, Kiev Province

Scope and content:: Materials housed include a memorandum of the Kiev province superintendent of schools to the director of the Belaia Tserkov’ Women’s High School directing the latter to secretly investigate the veracity of a complaint by the Belaia Tserkov’ crown rabbi regarding improper behaviour on the part of G. Annopol’skii, a teacher at the Belaia Tserkov’ Jewish School who was allegedly neglecting to perform religious rituals, with the result that local Jews did not wish to send their children to this school (1851). There are also documents of M. N. Mitlin’s Belaia Tserkov’ Jewish Women’s High School from 1917-19, including an admissions book and logs of six main and two preparatory classes (with biographical information on pupils: date of birth, religious confession, estate [soslovie], etc.).

Administrative/biographical history:: The fond combines documents pertaining to operations in Belaia Tserkov (Kiev province) of two secondary educational institutions: a state Russian women’s high school [gimnaziia] that until 1850 had been located in Vinnitsa; and the Jewish women’s high school of Dr. M. N. Mitlin, a private Jewish women’s educational institution apparently in operation from 1917-19.

Access points: locations:: Belaia Tserkov’; Kiev province; Ukraine; Vinnitsa

Subject terms:: Crown rabbis; Education; Education--Schools and universities; Education--Teachers and professors; Jewish daily life and religious practices; Personal records

System of arrangement:: The fond includes a single inventory systematised chronologically; files 1-5 consist of documents of the Belaia Tserkov’ Women’s [Russian] High School; and files 6-22 of the Belaia Tserkov’ Women’s Jewish High School.