Metadata: Odessa Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Odessa
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. P-9
- Title:
- Odessa Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Odessa
- Title (official language):
- Одесский городской комитет Компартии Украины, г. Одесса; Одеський міський комітет Компартії України, м. Одеса
- Creator/accumulator:
- Odessa Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Odessa
- Date(s):
- 1930/1991
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- (10,985 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Materials housed in the fonds include (op. 1, 3, 28, 53) special bulletins and memoranda of the Odessa Area Department of the GPU on antisemitic tendencies found among the population of the city of Odessa and Red Army personnel of the local garrison (1930-31); statistical information on the state of and increase in the municipal party organisation (with a breakdown by ethnicity, 1932-34); and lists of communists who had previously belonged to other parties (the Bund, the United Jewish Socialist Workers Party [Fareynikte], the Communist Party of Palestine, etc.; 1937-38).
Also housed in the fonds are minutes of 1938 sessions of the bureau of the Odessa Municipal Committee, which dealt among other things with the confirmation of E. M. Skibitskii as director of the “educational-manufacturing plant” Evrabmol [Officially called the October Revolution 1st House of Jewish Working Youth, this was better known as the Evrabmol; it was an industrial training institution for Jewish teenagers that began activities in Odessa in 1924 with the assistance of the Society for Handicraft and Agricultural Work among the Jews (ORT), and remained in operation all the way till 1938; during this time it was referred to in documents as an industrial training centre or industrial training complex; and for most of its existence it was independent and self-financing. In 1934 there were 350 students at the Evrabmol factory school, of whom 140 had formerly been wards of children’s shelters. Subsequently this entity became the basis for the S. M. Kirov Machine-Tool Factory and Technicum.]
The Municipal Committee's minutes also dealt with the condition of Odessa’s House of Jewish Culture, including a statement to the effect that due to the “sabotage” wrought by its former director M. B. Tunkel’roit, who had been arrested as an “enemy of the people,” this institution’s operations had been ruined and its accommodations reduced to “a completely unacceptable state,” and including a decree that “the House of Jewish Culture be restored as a centre of mass-political work among the Jewish population”; the accommodations of Odessa’s Museum of Jewish Culture, including a decree that a petition be filed with the Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars on behalf of the municipal council and municipal party committee requesting that another institution located in the same building be immediately removed from it, in light of this museum’s enormous significance vis-à-vis “Odessa conditions,” insofar as it was the only of its kind in Ukraine, and had been “closed in its time by enemies of the people.”
Jewish-themed materials pertaining to the period of “mature socialism” include data on events arranged to “intensify the population’s education in scientific atheism,” particularly via visits with leaders of Jewish religious groups (1967), as well as a classified “Comprehensive target plan for the war on Zionism,” which among other things called for “more active involvement on the part of persons of the Jewish nationality in propaganda work to expose Zionism,” intensifying efforts “with people who maintain regular contact with citizens of foreign countries,” and paying greater attention to “enterprises and organisations most subject to pro-emigration tendencies” (1985); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Odessa Municipal Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (from 1952 on, of the Communist Party of Ukraine) was established in September 1930, and was subordinate to the Odessa Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. It was liquidated pursuant to the edicts of the presidium of the Supreme Council of Ukraine (26 August 1991) “On temporarily suspending activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine” and (30 August 1991) “On barring the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine.”
- Access points: persons/families:
- Skibitskii, E. M.
- Tunkel’roit, M. B.
- Subject terms:
- Anti-religious activity (Soviet Union)
- Antisemitism
- Bund movement
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Communism--Communists
- Education
- Education--Vocational training
- Jewish political activity
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Military
- Museums
- ORT (Organisation for Rehabilitation through training)
- Statistics
- Zionism
- Zionism--Anti-Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes sixty-nine inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary