Metadata: Odessa Foreign 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. 11
- Title:
- Odessa Foreign Censorship Committee; Odessa, Kherson Province
- Title (official language):
- Одесский комитет цензуры иностранной, г. Одесса Херсонской губ.; Одеський комітет цензури іноземної, м. Одеса Херсонської губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Odessa Foreign Censorship Committee; Odessa, Kherson Province
- Date(s):
- 1868/1917
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- (125 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Documents housed in the fonds include correspondence with the Main Administration for Press Affairs on payment for checking works in Hebrew and Yiddish (1868-69, 1871); on allocating funding for a censor for Jewish publications, and on this official’s investiture (1871-96); on permitting the importation of Hebrew- and Yiddish-language books and periodicals into Russia, including Franz Delitzsch’s pamphlet First Fruits of the Fig-Tree (1884) and the Vienna newspapers Jüdische Zeitung and Neue Wiener Israelit (1884); correspondence with the Petersburg Censorship Committee on permitting or barring the importation into Russia of Hebrew- and Yiddish-language works published in Jerusalem, Krakow, and New York (1886-87, 1907); a list of thirty Hebrew- and Yiddish-language books analysed by the censor Iu. M. Barkhad from 15 November 1873 through 2 January 1874; the personnel file of G. O. Lifshits, the Odessa censor for Jewish publications (1912); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was established in 1865 upon the reorganisation of the Odessa Censorship Committee (see the description of f. 8). It was in charge of monitoring foreign-language printed works, as well as works of visual arts imported from abroad. It was liquidated in 1917.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Barkhad, Iu. M.
- Delitzsch, Franz
- Lifshits, G. O.
- 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
