Metadata: Kiev University
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the City of Kyiv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів міста Киева
- Postal address:
- вул. Олени Телiги, 23, м. Київ, 04060
- Phone number:
- 380 (44) 440 6350
- Web address:
- http://kiev-arhiv.gov.ua/en/
- Email:
- info@kiev-arhiv.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 16
- Title:
- Kiev University
- Title (official language):
- Киевский университет
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kiev University
- Date(s):
- 1834/1920
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 72,007 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Included in the fond is the Statute on the Jews, adopted in Russia on 13 April 1835; sample rabbinical vital records for the recording of births, deaths, marriages, and divorces; procedures and a text for the oath-taking of members of boards of Jewish religious communities, of Beit Din, and of the rabbinate; a Senate edict regarding Jews convicted of crimes and exiled to remote provinces, assigning such persons to estates [sosloviia] subject to the poll tax in places in which they had settled; Senate edicts amortising loans issued to Jewish farmers of the Kherson and Ekaterinoslav provinces; barring Jewish married couples from permanent residence in provinces in which Jewish settlement was forbidden if only one of them had converted to Christianity; stipulating that arrears be collected from Jewish communities for every conscript not delivered; indicating procedures for conferring the rank of privat-docent upon “persons of the Judaic confession”.
Also included are administrative circulars of the Kiev Educational District on stipends for Jewish students, and instructions on granting stipends to students of the Zhitomir Rabbinical Seminary and to persons housed at the Seminary’s general students' dormitory; on procedures for allowing Jews to study penmanship in private homes; on opening private Jewish educational institutions; on preventing abuses in Jewish elementary schools of the Southwestern territory in the course of testing and certifying for the fourth-rank [razriad] draft exemption; on preserving the privileges formerly enjoyed by graduates of the Vilno and Zhitomir Rabbinical Seminaries after these entities' reorganisation as Jewish teachers' institutes; on halting the operations of Jewish school commissions, and testing Jewish candidates for certification as teachers of state Jewish schools; on halting the practice of awarding stipends to Jews from funds designated for their education; on adopting the Textbook on the Israelite Religion (Lehrbuch der israelitischen Religion), published in Stuttgart, as a textbook in state Jewish schools to supplement the Jewish-subject instructional curriculum; on exempting graduates of rabbinical seminaries who were candidates for rabbinical or state Jewish schoolteacher posts from military conscription requirements; on the mandatory education of the children of merchants and honorary citizens [pochetnye grazhdane] “of the Judaic confession” in general-education state schools, and on allowing such persons to organise (at their own expense) special boarding schools for their children at secondary schools [gimnazii] and other educational institutions; on granting Jews the right “to instruct their own children, of their own accord, in religious law” at schools or through private teachers; on implementing an edict of 7 June 1875 according to which upon the elapse of twenty years, only Jews having studied at rabbinical seminaries or in higher or secondary general-education institutions could be domestic tutors; on Jewish honorary trustees [pochetnye bliustiteli] of Jewish schools, and their duties; on categorising yeshivas as second-order schools, and introducing the teaching of general-education subjects at Talmud-Torahs; on Russian-language instruction in “the Jewish faith” at public educational institutions; on dissolving state Jewish schools and reorganising Jewish first- and second-rank schools as one- and two-grade schools; on procedures for the enrolment of Jews who were granted discounted tuition in university programs, according to the quota established for such persons and also exceeding this quota.
The fond also includes files of the University Council on admitting as students “persons of the Judaic confession” who were graduates of classical high schools [gimnazii], in conformance with the 10% norm; on the political reliability of Jewish students; on consideration of projects on “educating Jewish young people,” and proposals of the Jewish community of Uman' to establish a Jewish school in that city; correspondence with the Committee on Censoring Foreign Publications (St. Petersburg) on “providing forty-one bales of Jewish books for inspection”; on procedures for issuing grants to Jewish university students and auditors; and on directing the question of restricting the admission of “persons of the Judaic confession” to the medical school (10% of the overall number of students) to the Special Commission to Review the Empire's Current Laws on Jews.
The fond also contains files of the University Board on a contract with the Shapiros (merchants) to establish and maintain a Jewish printing press in Zhitomir; on verifying signatures and handwriting in Hebrew-language documents; and on storage of a promissory note in the amount of 7,500 rubles (from donations by Jews to benefit their co-religionists).
There are also files of the University Provost's Office and Student Affairs Office: on the admission of “persons of the Judaic confession”; on issuing certificates by which Jewish students were to receive grants from funding provided by the Ministry of Education; on delivering documents of university students “of the Judaic confession” to a commission organised to take a census of Jews in Kiev; and on certain Jewish students' conversions to Catholicism. The fond also includes Vilno Educational District circulars stipulating that 1,500 rubles from korobka [kosher meat tax] funds be allocated annually for a period of four years to organise and maintain a parallel fourth class at the Kovno secondary school [gimnaziia]; on distributing Jewish books that had been housed at the Kovno secondary school's main library amongst religious academies and seminaries; on funds allocated from the Jewish candle tax toward Jewish education; on lessons skipped (for the 1879-80 school year) at the Vilno Jewish Teachers' Institute, and on the teaching staff of this institution.
There is also statistical information on students in secondary schools [gimnazii] and gentry schools of the Kiev Educational District, arranged by ethnic background and religious confession, and on the number of residents in the provinces in which these educational institutions were located; on the number of students in state and private schools in the district, including in state Jewish schools of the first and second ranks, and of private Jewish “women's boarding schools” and “men's schools”; on the distribution of university students by religious confession and estate (as of 1 January 1909), and on the number of Jewish students enrolled at the medical school (1874-83).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Imperial St. Vladimir University was founded in 1834 pursuant to a Senate edict of 8 November 1833; initially it consisted of two faculties: the Law School and the Philosophy Faculty (which had two departments, those of history and philology, and of physics and mathematics); in 1850, the Philosophy Faculty's two departments were reorganised as the History and Philology Faculty and the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. At this point the university began to function with four faculties: those just mentioned, plus the Law School and Medical School. In 1920, the university became the basis for the new Higher Education Institute, and its medical school, that of the Institute of Health; while the law school was merged with the newly-formed Institute of the People's Economy. St. Vladimir University was under the jurisdiction of the Kiev Educational District (and from 1884 on, also that of the Ministry of Education); from 1918 on, of the Commissariat on the Kiev Educational District; and from 1919 on, of the Ukrainian SSR People's Commissariat of Education, at which point it also received a new title, and was called Kiev University, instead of St. Vladimir University. It functioned as an educational institution and research centre, and also performed administrative functions with regard to secondary and lower-level educational institutions of the Kiev Educational District.
- Access points: locations:
- Ekaterinoslav province
- Kherson province
- Kiev
- Kovno
- Russia
- St Petersburg
- Ukraine
- Uman'
- Vilnius
- Zhitomir
- Access points: persons/families:
- Shapiro family (merchants)
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Aid and relief
- Bet din
- Censorship
- Census
- Conversion to Christianity
- Correspondence
- Crime
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Students
- Education--Talmud Torah
- Education--Teachers and professors
- Education--Yeshivot
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Debt
- Jewish quota
- Legal matters
- Libraries
- Marriage and divorce
- Marriage and divorce--Gittin
- Military
- Printing
- Privileges
- Rabbis
- Residency issues of Jews
- Statistics
- Taxation
- Taxation--Candle tax
- Taxation--Korobka
- Vital records
- Vital records--Birth records
- Vital records--Death records
- Vital records--Marriage records
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes 184 inventories systematised chronologically and according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
