Metadata: Committee of the Kiev Branch of the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia (OPE)
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Kyiv Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Київської області
- Postal address:
- 04119, м.Київ, вул.Мельникова, 38, 40.
- Phone number:
- 380 (44)206-74-99
- Web address:
- http://dako.gov.ua/
- Email:
- dako@archives.kiev.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 348
- Title:
- Committee of the Kiev Branch of the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia (OPE)
- Title (official language):
- Комитет Киевского отделения Общества для распространения просвещения между евреями в России
- Creator/accumulator:
- Committee of the Kiev Branch of the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia (OPE)
- Date(s):
- 1903/1918
- Language:
- Russian
- English
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- German
- Polish
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 167 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Included are materials on the activities of the Kiev Branch of the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia and of institutions and structures connected with it: minutes of sessions of the society’s Kiev branch and of its commissions; materials and minutes of general assemblies of society members for 1913-14; the society’s charter (1914), and a synopsis of amendments to it (1917); correspondence with leaders of the society, and with the boards of Jewish communities, societies, and educational institutions; information on the committee’s operations; financial reports on income and expenses, and on allocation of the korobka [kosher meat tax]; reports by committee plenipotentiaries on the results of inspections of educational institutions in cities and towns of the Kiev and Volhynia provinces (1916), and on the state of Jewish women’s colleges and schools; reports and information on the operations of Talmud Torahs; correspondence on subsidising various Jewish educational institutions and kindergartens, and documents on renting quarters for them; personnel lists and payroll records for teachers and employees of Jewish schools and Talmud Torahs; inspection certificates for cheders of the Kiev province; designs and blueprints of buildings of Jewish cultural-educational institutions; logs of outgoing documents; etc.
Also housed in the fond are plans for the organisation and curriculum of the Higher School of Jewish Knowledge; a file on a pogrom in the city of Rechitsa (Minsk province) (1904); materials of a Gomel’ conference on the state of Jewish children’s shelters (1917); correspondence with Jewish organisations on the convocation of a congress of Jewish religious communities of Ukraine, and on providing material aid to these organisations (1917-18); a program, bulletins, and other materials of the Seventh All-Russian Zionist Congress (1917); texts of articles for the Vestnik evreiskogo prosveshcheniia [Jewish Enlightenment Herald]; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia (OPE), established in St. Petersburg in 1863, was the leading Jewish cultural-educational organisation in Russia. Its Kiev branch was established in 1903; crucial in this regard was the initiative of the major Kiev entrepreneur Laz. I. Brodskii, and of M.-E. Kh. Mandel’shtam, a doctor, public figure, and populariser of education. (These men headed the Committee of the Kiev Branch of the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia in 1903-04 and 1904-12 respectively.) Through membership dues and donations, the society accumulated and distributed funds to subsidise and provide literature for Jewish schools and Talmud Torahs in the cities and towns of a broad region that included the Kiev, Podolia, Volhynia, and Chernigov provinces; during the First World War, it helped found schools for the children of Jewish refugees, and “children’s hearths” [detskie ochagi] for preschool education. The society continued activities under Civil War conditions as well, until 1920, when it was closed.
- Access points: locations:
- Chernigov province
- Gomel’
- Kiev
- Kiev province
- Minsk province
- Podolia province
- Rechitsa
- Ukraine
- Volhynia province
- Access points: persons/families:
- Brodskii, Laz. I.
- Mandel’shtam, M.-E.
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Architectural drawings
- Children
- Correspondence
- Education
- Education--Cheders
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Talmud Torah
- Education--Teachers and professors
- Financial records
- Jewish community
- Jewish press
- Pogroms
- Taxation
- Taxation--Korobka
- Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist Congress
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes two inventories; files are systematised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary