The Dantsis and Fel’dman General Secondary School [realschule, real’noe uchilishche] of Kiev

Collection

Title:: The Dantsis and Fel’dman General Secondary School [realschule, real’noe uchilishche] of Kiev

Creator/accumulator:: The Dantsis and Fel’dman General Secondary School [realschule, real’noe uchilishche] of Kiev

Scope and content:: Among materials housed are minutes of sessions of the teachers’ council; records on the progress and behaviour of students; class logs; lists of students and teachers; candidates’ applications for teaching positions, including for positions to teach Jewish disciplines (among these candidates were graduates of the Zhitomir Jewish Teachers’ Institute and other Jewish educational institutions); and files on students (most of them Jewish).

Administrative/biographical history:: This private general secondary school [realschule, real’noe uchilishche] was opened in Kiev by the Jewish mechanical engineer F. Dontsis (Dantsis) and the research economist S. Fel’dman in 1917; it had the status of a government educational institution. It was not formally a national-minority school, but the curriculum did include Jewish disciplines (the Yiddish language, Jewish history), and the overwhelming majority of pupils were Jewish. The school was co-educational, and it had a five-year curriculum, not counting the preparatory grade. In 1920 it was reorganised as Unified Labor School No. 156.

Subject terms:: Education; Education--Students; Education--Teachers and professors; Personal records

System of arrangement:: The fond includes a single inventory; files are systematised in part chronologically, and in part alphabetically (student files).