Z. S. Orlova

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Державний архів Херсонської області

Scope and content:: Documents housed in the fonds include (in the Manuscripts section) Z. S. Orlova’s study “From the History of the Jewish Community of the Kherson Region” and a piece titled “On the History of Jewish Educational Institutions in the City of Kherson,” which contain information on the rate of growth of the city’s Jewish population, economic activity of Jewish-owned businesses, and contributions by some Jewish entrepreneurs to Kherson’s Jewish hospital; on the operation of Jewish educational institutions, including the secondary schools [gimnazii] of F. Bromberg and A. Koman-Veksler, the former secondary school of Kogan, the Central and Zabalka Talmud-Torahs, and Kherson’s Jewish vocational-technical school; on Jewish philanthropic organisations, and in particular, Kherson’s burial society; etc. There is also detailed information on aid to the population of Berislav, Kakhovka, and Kherson during the famine of 1921-23 provided by international Jewish charities (the Joint Distribution Committee and the World Jewish Aid Conference [Verelif]); on an initiative by Dr. M. V. Khasin, the World Jewish Aid Conference’s plenipotentiary in Kherson, to finance Jewish school no. 7; etc.

Administrative/biographical history:: The historian and researcher of local history Zoria Solomonovna Orlova was born in 1927 in Moscow. She spent her childhood in western Siberia (to which her father was exiled in 1934 amid the political repression that followed the murder of S. M. Kirov) and in Belarus’, where she graduated from high school and entered the history department of the Gomel’ Pedagogical Institute. When her family moved to Kherson, she continued her studies at Kherson’s N. K. Krupskaia Pedagogical Institute. Graduating in 1950, she went on to work for more than four decades at the State Archive of the Kherson Region (as a research fellow; senior historian; department head; and from 1999 on, adjunct research fellow). She is an honorary member of the Union of Archivists of Ukraine, and the author of over 100 publications on history and research on this region, including works on the history of Kherson Jewry.

Subject terms:: Aid and relief; Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity; Education; Education--Schools and universities; Education--Talmud Torah; Education--Vocational training; Famine; Health and medical matters; Health and medical matters--Hospitals; Hevrah kadisha; Historical research; Jewish community; Manuscripts; Trade and commerce

System of arrangement:: The fonds includes a single inventory systematised according to document type.