Metadata: Odessa 8th Men’s Secondary School [gimnaziia]; 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. 119
- Title:
- Odessa 8th Men’s Secondary School [gimnaziia]; Odessa, Kherson Province
- Title (official language):
- Одесская 8-я мужская гимназия, г. Одесса Херсонской губ.; Одеська 8-ма чоловіча гімназія, м. Одеса Херсонської губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Odessa 8th Men’s Secondary School [gimnaziia]; Odessa, Kherson Province
- Date(s):
- 1871/1920
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- (144 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Included are reports on the condition and operations of the school, including a clarification as to the reasons for the increased percentage of Jewish pupils at it (1915); information on the yearly breakdown of the student body by religious confession (1915-18); correspondence on school personnel, including on G. L. Epshtein (1915), who taught the course on the Jewish religion, and on engaging N. Hamburg to teach this subject after the former’s death (1916), and I. Shnaiberg after the death of N. Hamburg (1919).
Minutes of sessions of the school’s pedagogic council for the 1915-16 school year include discussion of admitting Jews (in excess of the 15% quota) who had successfully passed entrance exams and who enjoyed various benefits; on the city rabbi’s conduct of an applicant lottery, and lists of applicants who could and could not enrol as decided by this lottery (1915); on increasing tuition fees for the study of the Jewish religion (1915); on the establishment of tuition grants funded by the Odessa Society to Aid the Jewish Population Victimized by the War (1915-16); on increasing the number of lessons offered in the subject of the Jewish religion, and improving the material situation of the instructor N. Hamburg (1917, 1918); etc.
Minutes of a general assembly of parents and guardians of Jewish pupils deal with whether instruction in the Jewish religion should be mandatory for all pupils “of the Judaic confession,” and with setting the amount for payment for this subject and introducing examination in it (1919).
There is also correspondence on establishing the Alexander III scholarship for the poorest student (of whichever religion), and on the involvement of Jewish pupils’ parents in providing capital for this scholarship (1888); lists of Jewish students, including with a breakdown by class, and indicating amounts paid (1918) and a receipt book logging payments for the study of the Jewish religion, and a class log in this subject (1918-19); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was established in 1866 in the city of Lublin, based on educational institutions previously in operation in that city and associated with secondary school reforms implemented in the Kingdom of Poland in 1864-65. In June 1915, the school was evacuated to Odessa due to the war, where it resumed operations (from August 1915 on) in the building of the 2nd Men’s Secondary School [gimnaziia], and where a considerable number of its pupils were children of local residents, the majority of whom were Jewish. In April 1917, in light of the impending dissolution of the Warsaw Educational District, the school’s pedagogic council and general assembly of pupils’ parents petitioned for the school to be transferred to Odessa permanently. By decree (1 July 1917) of the Provisional Government and order (27 July 1917) of the Ministry of Education, the Lublin Men’s Secondary School was permanently transferred to Odessa and placed under the jurisdiction of the superintendent of the Odessa Educational District; and by order (13 November 1918) of the minister of education of the Ukrainian State, it was titled the Odessa Men’s Secondary School No. VIII. It ceased to exist upon the final consolidation of Soviet power in 1920.
- Access points: locations:
- Kherson province
- Odessa
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- Alexander III
- Epshtein, G. L.
- Hamburg, N.
- Shnaiberg, I.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single unstructured inventory.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary