Executive Committee of the Monastyrishche District Council of People’s Deputies; Monastyrishche, Cherkassy Region

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Державний архів Черкаської області

Title:: Executive Committee of the Monastyrishche District Council of People’s Deputies; Monastyrishche, Cherkassy Region

Title (official language):: Исполнительный комитет Монастырищенского районного Совета народных депутатов, г. Монастырище Черкасской обл.; Виконавчий комітет Монастирищенської районної Ради народних депутатів, м. Монастирище Черкаської обл.

Creator/accumulator:: Executive Committee of the Monastyrishche District Council of People’s Deputies

Scope and content:: Among documents housed in the fonds (op. 1) are supervisory files pertaining to the registration of Jewish communities and to the conclusion of contracts with them for their use of religious facilities and property in Monastyrishche, Terlitsa, and Tsibulev (1923-28); records of the makeup of communities and the condition of religious facilities, including synagogues (1926-27); and a list of Jewish clergymen in the villages of Monastyrishche and Lukashovka (1928). There is also, in minutes of a session of the presidium of the Monastyrishche District Executive Committee, information on the decision of the Jewish population of the village of Lukashovka to allocate two rooms of the synagogue for a “reading hut” [khata-chital’naia]; information of village councils and summary statistical data on the size of the Jewish population of the Monastyrishche district (1925); on the number of Jews who had taken part in elections and who had been disenfranchised (1926); a circular containing a letter of the Uman’ Area Executive Committee (27 May 1925) on the organisation of Yiddish-language anti-illiteracy [likbez] institutions; 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. They temporarily ceased activities in 1941-44 in connection with 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:: Cherkassy region; Monastyrishche; Monastyrishche district; Terlitsa; Tsibulev; Ukraine

Subject terms:: Jewish community; Jewish languages; Jewish languages--Yiddish; Libraries; Rabbis; Statistics; Synagogues

System of arrangement:: The fonds includes two inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.