Metadata: Odessa Directorate of Schools; 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:
- 18, Zhukovskogo str., Оdessa, 65026, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (48) 722-9365
- Web address:
- http://archive.odessa.gov.ua/en/
- Email:
- archive@odessa.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 43
- Title:
- Odessa Directorate of Schools; Odessa, Kherson Province
- Title (official language):
- Одесская дирекция народных училищ, г. Одесса Херсонской губ.; Одеська дирекція народних училищ, м. Одеса Херсонської губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Odessa Directorate of Schools; Odessa, Kherson Province
- Date(s):
- 1839/1863
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- (182 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Documents housed in the fonds include correspondence with the superintendent of the Odessa Educational District, the Odessa city prefect, and directors of educational institutions on the condition and operations of Jewish schools; on renting accommodations for them, and constructing, repairing, and insuring their buildings; on income and disbursements of funds, and the supplying of financial documentation, and on the Odessa Jewish school’s submission of a financial statement for 1849 to the Kherson Revenue Chamber (1850); on apportioning and releasing funds from the candle tax to maintain Jewish schools (1853, 1856-59); on transferring files pertaining to the administration of state and private Jewish educational institutions to the care of the 2nd Odessa men’s secondary school [gimnaziia] [Originally the superintendent of the Odessa Educational District ordered (12 January 1864) that all private educational institutions, Jewish and Christian, be transferred to the jurisdiction of the 1st Odessa (Richelieu) men’s secondary school [gimnaziia], but as early as 21 January 1864, this official “deemed it more convenient to place private Jewish institutions under the jurisdiction of the 2nd Odessa secondary school [gimnaziia],” which had formerly been tasked with oversight of state Jewish educational institutions, and “leave the director of the Richelieu school in charge only of private Christian institutions”]; also included is correspondence on the Odessa Municipal Duma’s proposal to set a “supplementary salary” for the trustees and teachers of the Odessa Jewish School for Young Ladies, appoint trustees and a doctor for state Jewish schools, etc. (1862-64).
There are also files on examinations held at Jewish schools in Odessa (1853), and on certification testing for melameds for the right to teach reading and writing to their coreligionists in private homes (1853); instructions on testing teachers of Jewish schools, including examining K. Brug for qualification to fill the position of teacher of German at the Kishinev Jewish school (1850), and examining Ia. Tsitron for certification to teach French at the Odessa Jewish School for Young Ladies (1861); on certifying and providing information on melameds and managers of cheders (1853); on amounts of time devoted to the teaching of particular subjects in Jewish state and private educational institutions in Odessa (1855); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Originally based at the Richelieu Lyceum (see the description of f. 44), this began operations when the Odessa Educational District was formed (1830), functioning as an administrative entity with oversight “of all educational institutions of Odessa and its suburbs,” including Jewish schools. It was headed by the director of the Richelieu Lyceum. Subsequently, ahead of the lyceum’s reorganisation as Novorossiia University (1865), these supervisory functions were transferred to the directors of the 1st (Richelieu) and 2nd Odessa men’s secondary schools [gimnazii] (1862-64), and later to provincial and county school inspectors (1869-71); and from 1874 on, oversight was held by the Kherson Province Directorate of Schools (see the description of f. 298).
- Access points: locations:
- Kherson province
- Odessa
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- Brug, K.
- Tsitron, Ia.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes two inventories systematised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
