Kiev Men’s High School [gimnaziia] of the First Society of Teachers

Collection

Title (official language):: Киевская мужская гимназия 1-го общества педагогов

Creator/accumulator:: Kiev Men’s High School [gimnaziia] of the First Society of Teachers

Scope and content:: Included are student files of Jewish pupils, with information on their background, documents of their parents, etc.; questionnaire forms of teachers and pupils including indications as to their religious confession; and data on other educational institutions (including Jewish gimnazii and schools) of Kiev and the Kiev area.

Administrative/biographical history:: This institution was established at the initiative of the Teachers’ Group pedagogical collective in 1916; it was meant to address the paucity of high schools [gimnazii] in Kiev, and became the city’s first educational institution to be owned this way. It had the status of a government high school. Insofar as its first school year coincided with the February Revolution of 1917, which ended all restrictions on the education of young Jewish people, Jews made up a considerable part of its student body, with some transferring here from Jewish gimnazii and schools. The school was reorganised in 1920 as a Unified Labor School.

Subject terms:: Education; Education--Students; Personal records; Statistics

System of arrangement:: The fond includes a single inventory systematised chronologically (office files, and materials of the teachers’ council) and alphabetically (student files).