Metadata: Kiev Press Committee
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. R-2769
- Title:
- Kiev Press Committee
- Title (official language):
- Киевский комитет по делам печати
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kiev Press Committee
- Date(s):
- 1918
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 137 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- The fond includes a whole set of documents pertaining to applications submitted by Jewish organisations (the Ahdus Israel Committee; the Folk Farlag company) and private individuals for permission to publish (register in periodical lists) Jewish newspapers and journals in Russian (Evreiskaia budushchnost’ [The Jewish Future]), Yiddish (Der Fledervish; Dos Yidishe folk; Yidishe folksblat; Erd un arbet), and Hebrew (Ahdus [Unity]). There are also Press Committee instructions on censoring press materials, specifying that items were not to be printed, among other subjects, on the Austrian command’s submission to the Council of Ministers of a memorandum on propagandising by Jews among Austro-German troops and on a ministers’ conference on “the Jewish question” (the collective responsibility of Jewish communities, etc.); a survey of the Odessa press describing the “Russian patriotic” publication Nabat [The Alarm Bell] as marked by anti-Semitism; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Kiev Press Committee began operations 1 September 1918, and was under the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian State [Ukrains’ka derzhava] Ministry of Internal Affairs. It was tasked with reviewing and registering applications for permits to publish new periodicals in Kiev and monitoring compliance with the law on the press of 27 April 1917; it also performed censorship functions.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory systematised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary