Metadata: Baranovka Executive Committee of the District Council of Toilers’ Deputies; Baranovka, Zhitomir Region
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. R-855
- Title:
- Baranovka Executive Committee of the District Council of Toilers’ Deputies; Baranovka, Zhitomir Region
- Title (official language):
- Барановский исполнительный комитет районного Совета депутатов трудящихся, пгт Барановка Житомирской обл.; Баранівський виконавчий комітет районної Ради депутатів трудящих, смт Баранівка Житомирської обл.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Baranovka Executive Committee of the District Council of Toilers’ Deputies
- Date(s):
- 1922/1962
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 272 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The general description below relates to a series of fonds of the Andrushevka, Baranovka, Vcheraishe, Korosten’, Luginy, Slovechno and Chepovichi Executive Committees of the District Council of Toilers’ Deputies; the Belilovka, Ivankov, Kodnia and Novograd-Volhynskii Executive Committees of the District Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies; and the Berdichev, Dzerzhinsk, Narodichi, Olevsk and Ruzhin Executive Committees of the District Council of People’s Deputies.
Included is information on the registration (reregistration) of Jewish religious communities, and their charters, property inventories, and lists of founders and of members; requests for permission to hold general assemblies of religious communities, and minutes thereof; personnel reviews and registration cards of clergymen, including rabbis; records of synagogues and Jewish houses of worship; correspondence on establishing commissions to inspect religious property, on the transfer of vital records kept by rabbis to the competence of ZAGS, and an inventory of vital records of Jewish communities (of Narodichi, Viazovetskoe, and Ksaverovskaia) held in the archive of the Narodichi District ZAGS (1924); circular containing orders of the Volhynia Provincial Department of Education and of area executive committees that all Hebrew-language books be immediately removed from libraries and sent to the Jewish Section to be replaced by books in Yiddish; and that Jewish children be barred from attending private cheders, and that measures be taken toward closing same; petitions by “Jewish public opinion” that synagogues be requisitioned and repurposed to house schools and Jewish workers’ clubs; appeals by believers for the return of synagogues and houses of worship, and correspondence on this subject, particularly a memorandum of the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR to the Korosten’ Area Administrative Department (13 May 1927) refusing to return the previously-closed Bes-Hamidrash Synagogue in the town of Chepovichi to the Jewish community of Chepovichi.
There are also data on the establishment of Jewish national settlement and village councils in a number of population centres with a predominantly Jewish population (Baranovka, Gorodnitsa, Romanov, etc.) (1925); these councils’ plans of operation, reports, inspection certificates, and personal cards of village council members and candidates for membership; statistical data on the number of Jewish national village councils and cultural-educational institutions, and on the ethnic makeup of the population; lists of voters and of disenfranchised persons; minutes of area conferences of Jewish cultural-educational workers [kul’trabotniki] and teachers; annual reports of and inspection reports on Jewish labour schools, and documentation on the assignment thereto of nationalised facilities; reports on their condition, and requests that they be provided with facilities and material aid, including correspondence on the allocation of funds for the construction of a building for a Jewish labour school in the town of Vcheraishe (1926), and an agreement to maintain, via the local budget, the Second Narodichi Jewish Labor School in light of the poverty of the town’s Jewish population (1923).
Also included are lists of students of Jewish schools, information on their numbers and on teaching personnel, and on work to eradicate illiteracy among national minorities, including on Jewish anti-illiteracy [likbez] institutions functioning in Yiddish; applications to the cultural-humanitarian department of the Novograd-Volhynskii District Executive Committee for permission to stage Yiddish-language shows in the theatres and clubs of the city (1923); repertoire lists of plays authorised for staging, including Jewish, Russian, and foreign plays and their Yiddish-language adaptations (1925); lists of Jewish plays and films forbidden to be staged or shown, including The Life of Jews in America (1925) and The Life of Jews in Palestine (1927); a list of routes for tours of the city of Berdichev, which cover, among other things, “sightseeing of ancient structures (synagogues, palaces, temples)” (1928).
A considerable number of documents contain information on the land settlement of the Jewish population. These include a circular of the People’s Commissariat of Agriculture of the Ukrainian SSR on the resettlement of the Jewish population in 1925-26, and on requirements from candidates for same; decrees of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR on resettlement associations and instructions of the Central Commission on National Minorities “On procedures for staffing Jewish resettlement collectives” (1925); synopses of reports for agitators on Jews’ transition to land tenure; assignment orders for migration to Siberia, the far east, and the Kherson, Zaporozh’e, and Krivoi Rog areas; plans of operation and minutes of sessions of the Committee on Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers (KOMZET) on getting the déclassé [deklassirovannyi] Jewish poor of towns to join kolkhozes; circulars containing letters of area committees and district executive committees, of area commissions of the Society for Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers (OZET), and minutes and excerpts therefrom on creating commissions to register the Jewish population wishing to take up agricultural labour; regulations on “the resettlement associations in Ukraine” and copies of the “Resettlement association model charter” (1925); applications and family forms for “Jewish toilers” wishing to migrate; statistical reports and memoranda of district executive committees and village councils on the course and results of the resettlement campaign, records of the “scout” movement, and “scouting” reports; minutes of general assemblies of citizens and migrants (of Kotel’nia, Olevsk, Rogachev); information on the number of Jewish farmers, and summary cards and member lists of Jewish resettlement and agricultural collectives (“Forward,” “Dawn,” “Red Banner,” and “New Light”); correspondence with agricultural associations on economic issues; lists of young Jewish people to be sent to factory training schools (FZU); information on the work of the OZET and on the distribution of OZET lotteries; an agreement on a socialist competition between the Ukrainian and Belorussian OZETs (1931); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- District executive committees of councils of workers’, peasants’, and Red Army deputies were created by the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsIK) decree “On the administrative-territorial division of Volhynia” (7 March 1923) on the basis of the liquidated rural executive committees. They oversaw economic, public, and cultural activities in the territory under their jurisdiction. From 1923-30, they were subordinate to area executive committees; from 1930-32, they were immediately subordinate to the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsIK); from 1932-37, they were subordinate to the Kiev Regional Executive Committee; and from 1937, with the formation of the Zhitomir region, to the Zhitomir Regional Executive Committee. They temporarily ceased activities in 1941-44 following the occupation of the region’s territory by German forces. Upon adoption of the Soviet Constitution of 1936 and the Ukrainian Constitution of 1937, they were renamed executive committees of councils of toilers’ deputies, and pursuant to the Constitutions of the USSR and Ukrainian SSR of 1977, of people’s deputies. They were the supreme executive and administrative bodies of state power in the territory of districts, and oversaw the activities of settlement and village councils.
- Access points: locations:
- Baranovka
- Berdichev
- Chepovichi
- Far East
- Gorodnitsa
- Kherson area
- Krivoi Rog area
- Narodichi
- Olevsk
- Rogachev
- Siberia
- Ukraine
- United States
- Vcheraishe
- Zaporozh’e area
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Censorship
- Correspondence
- Education
- Education--Cheders
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Teachers and professors
- Jewish community
- Jewish councils
- Jewish kolkhoz
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Hebrew
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Land
- Libraries
- Poverty
- Real estate
- Resettlement of Jews
- Statistics
- Synagogues
- Theatre
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- Files in the fonds are systematised mainly according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary