Metadata: Odessa Censorship Committee; Odessa, Kherson Province
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Odessa Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Одеської області; Государственный архив Одесской области
- Postal address:
- 65026, Украина, г. Одесcа, ул. Жуковского, 18, тел.: +380 (48) 722-9365, тел./факс: +380 (48) 722-8025, e-mail: DAOO@ukr.net http://archive.odessa.gov.ua/
- Reference number:
- F. 8
- Title:
- Odessa Censorship Committee; Odessa, Kherson Province
- Title (official language):
- Одесский цензурный комитет, г. Одесса Херсонской губ.; Одеський цензурний комітет, м. Одеса Херсонської губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Odessa Censorship Committee; Odessa, Kherson Province
- Date(s):
- 1835/1865
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- (36 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Documents housed in the fonds include correspondence of the Odessa Censorship Committee with the Main Censorship Administration on a shortage of books in ancient Hebrew dealing “with the study of religion and language, and which would satisfy the mental needs of educated Jews” (1861); on permitting L. M. Genikes, the “learned Jew” of the superintendent of the Odessa Educational District, to censor the newspaper Ha-Melitz, Hebrew- and Yiddish-language texts, the journal Rassvet, and Jewish books of foreign provenance, and on establishing the post of censor for Jewish-language literature in Odessa (1861-62). Also included are a petition submitted (May 1861) by the Odessa Jewish community to M. M. Mogilianskii, superintendent of the Odessa Educational District, to the effect that there was a pressing need to order Jewish books from abroad and have the censorship thereof performed by the Odessa Censorship Committee rather than the Kiev or Vil’no equivalents, due to the fact that there had been long delays in the return of materials from the latter two committees; and stating that managers of the Vil’no and Zhitomir Jewish printing presses were unable to meet public demand, insofar as they were producing only works of ancient Hebrew literature or untranslated prayer books, were not complying with linguistic correctness, etc. [Pursuant to the Statute on the Jews of 1835, only these two printing presses, which were considered to “pertain to the censorship and domestic order” as specially monitored by the Ministry of Education, were entitled to publish Jewish books in the territory of the Russian Empire. This monopoly on Jewish-language printing ended only in 1862]; and a letter of the Ministry of Education to the head of the Odessa Educational District permitting Jews, from 1 July 1862, to organise printing presses that would publish “exclusively Jewish books,” and on instituting the post of the special Jewish censor.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was established 28 May 1831. Until March 1863 it was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education’s Main Censorship Administration; thereafter, that of the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ Main Administration for Press Affairs. Following censorship charters and directives, it censored the domestic press and oversaw the monitoring of foreign literature coming in from abroad. Headed by the superintendent of the Odessa Educational District, the committee originally included three officials and professors and adjuncts of the Richelieu Lyceum. Per a Senate edict of 14 January 1860, its staff included three censors, a deputy, and a secretary, and on 26 April 1863 the post of special censor for Jewish-language publications was formally instituted (this function was performed from February 1860 on by L. M. Genikes, the “learned Jew” of the Odessa Educational District). Upon promulgation of the Temporary Rules on the Censorship and Press (6 April 1865), the collection creator was replaced by the Odessa Foreign Censorship Committee (see the description of f. 11); and the post of special censor for domestic literature in the city of Odessa (see the description of f. 9) was implemented.
- Access points: locations:
- Kherson province
- Odessa
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- Genikes, L. M.
- Mogilianskii, M. M.
- Subject terms:
- Censorship
- Correspondence
- Hebrew periodicals
- Jewish press
- Printing
- Publishing
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised according to the document type-chronological principle (within annual sections, by document type).
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary