Metadata: Zhitomir Jewish Teachers’ Institute; Zhitomir, Volhynia Province
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Zhitomir Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Житомирської області
- Postal address:
- 2/20 Ohrimova Hora Str.. Zhytomyr, 10003, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (0412) 42-48-00
- Web address:
- http://archive.zt.gov.ua/
- Email:
- archive_zt@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 354
- Title:
- Zhitomir Jewish Teachers’ Institute; Zhitomir, Volhynia Province
- Title (official language):
- Житомирский еврейский учительский институт, г. Житомир Волынской губ.; Житомирський єврейський учительський інститут, м. Житомир Волинської губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Zhitomir Jewish Teachers’ Institute
- Date(s):
- 1873/1886
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 74 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are proposals and circulars of the Kiev Educational District, syllabuses and other instructional materials (1880); a report on the state of the Jewish Teachers’ Institute, and minutes of sessions of its academic council and a log of proposals submitted for its consideration (1883); files on the admission and expulsion of students, on graduates of the Jewish Teachers’ Institute course of study, and of its primary school; personal files of teachers and students; class logs and lists of “state-grant students” [kazennokoshtnye] living in the general students’ quarters; catalogues of Russian and Jewish books of the main and student libraries (1883-84); applications and correspondence on admission to the Jewish Teachers’ Institute, and applications for work positions thereat, including Jewish Teachers’ Institute director A. Antonovich’s evaluation of Sholem Abramovitsh (Mendele Moykher-Sforim) in connection with the latter’s application to the superintendent of the Kiev Educational District for the position of Jewish Teachers’ Institute inspector (1881); files on officials’, teachers’, and students’ charitable contributions, and on the issuance of melamed certificates; financial and business documents (bookkeeping logs, cashbooks on income and expenses, contracts for foodstuff deliveries, etc.); proceedings and enactments of the supervisory council overseeing construction of an institute building, and pertaining to completing construction (1880, 1884); correspondence on the enrollment of Jewish Teachers’ Institute teachers and officials as jurors (1880); etc. There are also documents pertaining to “redundant”/“retired” teachers and officials of the Zhitomir Rabbinical Seminary (I. L. Bakst, A.-B. Gottlober, Kh. G. Lerner, I.-G. M.-Sh. Polichinetskii, Kh.-Z. Slonimskii, M. M. Sukhostaver, Eliezer Zvi Zweifel, and others): certificates, official lists, applications for transfer to other cities and towns, etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Founded in 1873 on the basis of the Zhitomir Rabbinical Seminary (see f. 396), this institution was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education and immediately subordinate to the administration of the Kiev Educational District. It constituted a boarding school designed for one hundred students (sixteen and older), eighty of whom were supported at government expense, and it trained teachers for state Jewish schools. It had a four-year curriculum. Pursuant to the Statute on Jewish Teachers’ Institutes, its director and teachers of general-education subjects (to which two-thirds of class time was devoted) were Christians, and Jewish teachers, as well as the inspector overseeing the teaching of Jewish subjects, were required to be graduates of rabbinical seminaries. The Jewish Teachers’ Institute also had a primary school with a preparatory class, as well as a general students’ quarters. Like the Rabbinical Seminary, the Jewish Teachers’ Institute did not enjoy the sympathies of the Jewish community, and its graduates typically experienced job placement difficulties. It was dissolved in 1885 as “non-essential.”
- Access points: locations:
- Ukraine
- Volhynia province
- Zhitomir
- Access points: persons/families:
- Antonovich, A.
- Bakst, I. L.
- Gottlober, A.-B.
- Lerner, Kh. G.
- Mendele Moykher-Sforim
- Polichinetskii, I.-G. M.-Sh.
- Slonimskii, Kh-Z.
- Sukhostaver, M. M.
- Zweifel, Eliezer Zvi
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single unstructured inventory.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
