The M. I. Levandovskaia Private Women's High School [gimnaziia]

Collection

Title (official language):: Киевская частная женская гимназия М.И. Левандовской

Creator/accumulator:: The M. I. Levandovskaia Private Women's High School [gimnaziia]

Scope and content:: Included are instructions of the superintendent of the Kiev Educational District, and in particular, on strict compliance with legal statutes on the admission of pupils “of the Judaic confession,” and on submitting information on the estate [soslovie] affiliation of female Jewish pupils to the police; a circular (1917) on excusing all Jewish pupils from classes on Saturdays and Jewish holidays; documents on procedures for admitting Jewish girls to the school; a list of categories of Jews entitled to reside in Kiev (1914); letters of the Kiev Rabbi A. B. Gurevich to the school's headmistress requesting that Jewish pupils be excused from classes during Jewish holidays; correspondence on allowing Dr. P. A. Iampol'skii to teach “the law of the Judaic faith” at the school; student files of Jewish pupils; statistical data on the number of pupils at the school by religious confession; and name lists of pupils “of the Judaic confession,” including indications as to their background.

Administrative/biographical history:: This was established in 1889 as a lower-level private women's educational institution. It was reorganised in 1907 from a progimnaziia [a school without the full number of grades of a typical gimnaziia] to a full high school with the status of government educational institutions of its kind. The school had seven main grades and an eighth (opened in 1908) devoted to general-education pedagogy. This private school's charter made it possible to admit more pupils “of the Judaic confession” than were allowed by the “percentage norm” [quota] for state educational institutions of Kiev; and upon enrolling, non-resident Jewish pupils received Kiev residence rights for the duration of their studies. The school offered instruction in Jewish theology, which was taught by the former Kiev Crown Rabbi P. A. Iampol'skii. The school was under the jurisdiction of the superintendent of the Kiev Educational District. In 1920 it was reorganised as a Unified Labor School.

Access points: persons/families:: Gurevich, A. B.; Iampol'skii, P. A.; Levandovskaia, M. I.

Subject terms:: Correspondence; Legal matters; Personal records; Rabbis; Statistics

System of arrangement:: The fond includes a single inventory implicitly systematised according to the structural-chronological principle (with student and teaching staff files ordered alphabetically).