Metadata: I. Sh. Averbukh
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Nikolaev Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Миколаївської області; Государственный архив Николаевской области
- Postal address:
- 54001, Украина, г. Николаев ул. Московская, 1, тел./факс: +380 (512) 37-0065 e-mail: mail@mk.archives.gov.ua http://mk.archives.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. R-5901
- Title:
- I. Sh. Averbukh
- Title (official language):
- Авербух И. Ш.; Авербух І. Ш.
- Creator/accumulator:
- I. Sh. Averbukh
- Date(s):
- 1825/1996
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- (81 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
-
The collection creator’s personal papers include thematic selections (excerpts and copies from books, periodicals, and documents; and photographs) on the history of the settlement of Jews in the Nikolaev region and the socioeconomic development of the Jewish population there, including the typewritten text of a review of The Jewish Population in the Nikolaev Region (1996), a collection of articles and documents compiled by staff members of the State Archive of the Nikolaev Region; manuscripts of articles, notes, and reports by I. Sh. Averbukh: “From the History of the Nikolaev Region” (undated), which contains information on the settlement of Jews in the territory of the region; “Supplementary Materials on the History of Nikolaev” (1995), which deals in particular with Jews who have resided in that city and Jewish educational institutions that had been in operation there; “Archival Materials on Certain Major Figures of Religious Life in the City of Nikolaev” (1995); “Returning the Synagogue to the Believers of Nikolaev” (undated); “Jewish Poetry in Ukrainian Translation” (1996); etc.
Also included are articles, texts of reports and radio broadcasts, historical information, and preparatory material thereto on prominent figures of Jewish descent in one way or another connected with the Nikolaev region (the Decembrist G. A. Peretts; the populist revolutionary S. Ia. Vittenberg; Lev Davidovich Trotskii; the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson; the Bertensons, a dynasty of physicians; the actor and director Solomon Mikhoels; the writers David Iakovlevich Aizman, Isaac Babel, I. I. Shvarts, and others).
There are also copies of publications, archival documents, photo-reproductions, and newspaper clippings on the history of Jewish philanthropy in the region; the mass destruction of Jews during the German-Romanian occupation of the Nikolaev region in 1941-44; the Jewish cultural renaissance of the 1990s; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The teacher and researcher of local history Ikhveit Shimonovna Averbukh (1913-96) was born in the town of Grossulovo (Tiraspol’ county, Kherson province) (now the town of Velyka Mykhailivka/Velikaia Mikhailovka, a district centre in the Odesa/Odessa region) into a merchant family. In 1929 she graduated the Grossulovo seven-year school. From 1932, she resided in Odessa, where she studied at the workers’ faculty and history department of Odessa State University. She subsequently worked as a teacher in secondary schools in the city of Nikolaev. She was active in operations of the historical-revolutionary monuments section of the regional branch of the Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, and she conducted research on local history. She died in Nikolaev.
- Access points: locations:
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- Aizman, D. Ia.
- Averbukh, Ikhveit Shimonovna
- Babel’, I. E.
- Bertenson family
- Peretts. G. A.
- Schneerson, M.-M.
- Shvarts, I. I.
- Trotskii, L. D.
- Vittenberg, S. Ia.
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Chabad
- Education
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Physicians and nurses
- Historical research
- Jewish community
- Literature
- Literature--Writers, poets, and playwrights
- Manuscripts
- Mass murder
- Newspaper clippings
- Occupation (military)
- Photographs
- Radio and television
- Resettlement of Jews
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised thematically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
