Kiev Fifth Men's High School [gimnaziia]

Collection

Scope and content:: Among materials housed in the fond are circulars and instructions of the educational district superintendent on procedures for educating persons of non-Christian religious confessions in state secondary schools, and information on compliance with the “percentage norm” (quota); statistical data on the number of Jews enrolled at the school in various years, and on their progress; student files of Jewish pupils, including documents attesting to their Kiev residence rights; in particular, the fond contains the application of the Korostyshev townsperson and future famous Jewish poet David Hofshtein for permission to sit for examinations on the four-grade curriculum at the Fifth High School (1907).

Administrative/biographical history:: Opened in 1885 as a state secondary educational institution, this was housed in the Pechers'ka district of Kiev, and was therefore known also as the Kiev-Pechers'ka Men's High School. The school's student body included Jews, whose number was determined via a quota (for Kiev, no more than 5% of the overall number of pupils). The school was reorganised in 1919-20 as a co-educational Soviet Unified Labor School.

Subject terms:: Education; Education--Schools and universities; Jewish quota; Personal records; Residency issues of Jews; Statistics

System of arrangement:: The fond includes six inventories (op. 1, 3-7; op. 2 does not exist) systematised in part chronologically and alphabetically (student and teacher files), and in part chronologically and unsystematised (office files, etc.).