Metadata: Education Inspectorate of the Kherson Area Executive Committee of the Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies; Kherson
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Kherson Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Херсонської області
- Postal address:
- Ukraine, 73003, Kherson, 3 Yaroslav Mudryi Str.
- Phone number:
- 380 (0552) 22-5733
- Web address:
- http://kherson.archives.gov.ua/
- Email:
- daxo@ukrpost.net
- Reference number:
- F. R-414
- Title:
- Education Inspectorate of the Kherson Area Executive Committee of the Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies; Kherson
- Title (official language):
- Інспектура народної освіти Херсонського окружного виконавчого комітету Ради робітничих, селянських і червоноармійських депутатів, м. Херсон
- Creator/accumulator:
- Education Inspectorate of the Kherson Area Executive Committee of the Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies; Kherson
- Date(s):
- 1917/1930
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 1,097 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
A considerable number of the fonds’ documents contain data on operations of Jewish educational institutions and preschools of the Kherson area. These include reports for 1924-29 on the work of Jewish schools in Kherson, Novoberislav, L’vovo, Romanovka, Bol’shaia and Malaia Seidemenukha, and Nagartav; the children’s shelter in the colony of Bobrovyi Kut; and files on operations of the Kherson Jewish vocational school (1923-29); correspondence and other documents pertaining to Kherson’s Jewish school no. 7, including lists of teachers and pupils, a description of the school building, a statement by Dr. M. V. Khasin, an agent of the World Jewish Aid Conference (Verelif), on subsidising the school in the amount of 100 rubles per month (1923-24), and the Kherson Municipal Council’s ruling (6 April 1928) to name the school in honour of Mendele Moykher-Sforim; a memorandum of the Kakhovka district inspector (24 February 1924) on the need to perform the Jewish nativisation [evreizirovat’] of Kakhovka’s seven-year school, in light of the fact that Jews there constitute “the prevailing group among the students”; a letter from the area education department’s Jewish section (7 July 1925) to the Kherson department of the ORT on reorganising Kakhovka’s Jewish labor school no. 2 in the form of a town [mestechkovaia] school, with an emphasis on handicrafts, “in order to teach crafts to the Jewish poor,” and an announcement on the opening of a Jewish agricultural-vocational school in the colony of Bol’shaia Seidemenukha (1925); a ruling of the area education inspectorate (25 July 1925) regarding the ban on observing the Sabbath in Kakhovka’s Jewish school, in light of the fact that “the issue of a day off in Jewish schools can only be decided by officially instituting such a day among the whole concentrated national-minority mass”; correspondence with the Jewish Colonization Society and an agreement with the Kiev branch of the Society for Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers (OZET) on organising and financing five Jewish labour schools in locations where new Jewish settlers resided (1928-29); a list of national-minority literature sent to educational institutions of the Kherson area in 1926 (including 775 Yiddish primers); a report of the Kultur-Lige publishing house on sending 400 copies of the Oys amaratses primer for Jewish anti-illiteracy institutions [likbezy], and a list of national-minority textbooks released by that publishing house in 1927; information on the location of Jewish schools in population centres of the Kherson area in 1929-30; teachers’ personnel files and cards; etc.
Several of the fonds’ documents reflect the area inspectorate’s activities in the field of culture and the arts, including lists of “plays of the Jewish repertoire” that were allowed to be staged, and plays that were banned, in 1924 and 1930; minutes of sessions of the Kherson Provincial Education Department’s repertoire committee on approving the repertoire of the Kherson Yiddish Theater, and a list of this theatre’s actors and its current repertoire (1924-25); correspondence with the Kultur-Lige and the All-Ukrainian Society for Promoting the Development of Jewish Culture (Gezkul’t) (1927); memoranda of the district departments of culture and education on setting up Jewish children’s playgrounds, village houses, and anti-illiteracy schools; inspection certificates of cultural-educational organisations on Jewish resettlement plots (1928); a telegram from the area inspectorate (2 February 1928) offering congratulations on the occasion of the opening of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Jewish Culture (Kiev), and a letter from the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Education recommending that rare and valuable books held in local libraries be sent to the institute (1929); and identification papers of Jewish teachers of Kherson sent to the Third All-Union Congress of Jewish Culture in Khar’kov (April 1928).
There also copies of minutes of a session of the Jewish section of the Kherson area committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (31 August 1927) on the results of an area Jewish teachers’ conference, recruiting students for Odessa’s Jewish Soviet Party School, and organising new Jewish village councils in the Kachkarovka district; a ruling of the presidium of the Kherson Municipal Council (7 August 1928) on transferring the building of the Novonikolaevka Street synagogue in Kherson to the House of Jewish Culture (in accordance with a petition by a Jewish nonparty conference and assemblies of workers’ collectives); a letter from the Moscow State Yiddish Theater to Jewish organisations on opening a studio-school at the theatre, and its prospectus (1929); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was formed in March 1923. It was under the jurisdiction of the area executive committee and the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Education. It performed functions in the Kherson area that had previously been carried out by the county department of education (see the historical information given in the description of f. R-413). It was dissolved in October 1930 upon the liquidation of areas as administrative units.
- Access points: locations:
- Bobrovyi Kut
- Bol’shaia and Malaia Seidemenukha
- Kakhovka
- Kherson
- Kherson area
- L’vovo
- Novoberislav
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- Khasin, M. V.
- Mendele Moykher-Sforim
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Aid and relief
- Anti-religious activity (Soviet Union)
- Children
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Correspondence
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Students
- Education--Teachers and professors
- Education--Vocational training
- Jewish colonies
- Jewish councils
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Jewish nativisation
- Literature
- Literature--Novels, poetry, and plays
- ORT (Organisation for Rehabilitation through training)
- Personal records
- Professions
- Professions--Crafts
- Publishing
- Rare books
- Resettlement of Jews
- Shabbat
- Synagogues
- Theatre
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
