Metadata: Crimean Karaites of Odessa (Consolidated Collection)
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Odessa Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Одеської області
- 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. R-8101
- Title:
- Crimean Karaites of Odessa (Consolidated Collection)
- Title (official language):
- Об’єднаний фонд – кримські караїми м. Одеси
- Creator/accumulator:
- Boris Zakharovich Levi et al.
- Date(s):
- 1914/1998
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 70 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Documents housed in the fonds are structured according to inventory. Op. 1 includes works by B. Z. Levi pertaining to shipbuilding, and technical analyses and production innovations, and correspondence connected with same; listings of and documentation on the receipt of exhibit items: items from everyday life, photographs, books, and periodicals pertaining to the history and culture of Crimean Karaites and located (since 1997) in the collection of the Odessa Museum of Local History; documents connected with the founding (in 1996) of Bazlyk, the Odessa Municipal Community of Crimean Karaites; page proofs of brochures by B. Z. Levi on Karaite subjects: The Karaite School (1996), A Walk Around Odessa (1997), and Bazlyk (1998); and a Russian-Karaite dictionary compiled by him; B. Z. Levi’s correspondence with leaders of Karaite communities of various cities, and of the Krym-karailar association (1978-98), and with the editorial office of the newspaper Karaimskie vesti (1995-98), on materials for The Karaite People’s Encyclopedia (1995-98); on Karaite surnames, Karaite cuisine recipes; etc.; information on Karaite burial places and monuments (1944-45); and manuscripts of Karaite authors, and materials of other persons: notebooks of S. O. Botuk; personal documents of I. O. and B. O. Botuk, Z. B. Levi, and others. Op. 2 includes materials of the father and son medical scholars M. O. and G. M. Sarra-Levi, including personal documents, pictures and photographs, Karaite literature; etc. Op. 3 includes materials of I. A. Kazas from the period of 1948-71: copies of documents from his personal papers, congratulatory addresses, photographs, etc. Op. 4 includes data on 107 Crimean Karaite graves at Odessa’s 2nd city cemetery, including general charts of the ten cemetery plots in which they are located, as well as schematics of the graves themselves. Op. 5 includes photographs (1910-30s) of several generations of the Efetovs, a Karaite family that lived in Odessa until the 1940s. Op. 6 contains materials of B. Z. Levi from 1925-99 that supplement (and in some cases duplicate) those housed in op. 1, including biographical documents and journals (1986-91); letters and congratulatory addresses; diplomas and commendations; copyright certificates; periodicals containing items by B. Z. Levi; pamphlets, article offprints, and newspaper clippings of items on Karaite history, culture, and everyday life; lists of books of a home (technical) library; photo albums, including a family album of B. Z. Levi’s grandmother; etc.
- Archival history:
- This consolidated collection was established on the initiative and with the involvement of one of the collection creators, Boris Zakharovich Levi (born 1926), a shipbuilding engineer who formerly worked as chief designer at the Black Sea Central Design and Construction Bureau, and who is also a researcher of local and Karaite history; aside from Levi’s own documents, the collection includes materials of several Karaite figures whose lives and activities were connected with Odessa: Mikhail Osipovich Sarra-Levi (1881-1964), a surgeon and associate professor of the Odessa Medical Institute; his son Georgii Mikhailovich Sarra-Levi (1918-87), a professor of the Odessa Medical Institute; Il’ia Azarovich Kazas (1901-73), an agronomist and director of the All-Union Anti-Phylloxera Research Station; and members of the Efetov family.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Botuk, B. O.
- Botuk, I. O.
- Botuk, S. O.
- Efetov family
- Kazas, Il’ia Azarovich
- Levi, Boris Zakharovich
- Sarra-Levi, Georgii Mikhailovich
- Sarra-Levi, Mikhail Osipovich
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes six inventories in which files are systematised according to document type; within files, documents are for the most part arranged chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
