Metadata: S. L. Kamenetskii
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- The National Library of Russia
- Holding institution (official language):
- Российская национальная библиотека. Отдел рукописей.
- Postal address:
- 91069, Russia, St. Petersburg, ul. Sadovaia, д. 18, main building; tel.: (812) 310-28-56; fax: (812) 310-61-48; e-mail: office@nlr.ru http://www.nlr.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 332
- Title:
- S. L. Kamenetskii
- Title (official language):
- КАМЕНЕЦКИЙ С. Л.
- Creator/accumulator:
- S. L. Kamenetskii
- Date(s):
- 1841/1934
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 121 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains a significant set of materials on Jewish history and culture. The inventory’s first section includes memoiristic manuscripts, among them a diary kept by S. L. Kamenetskii (1918-19). Housed in section 2 are manuscripts by S. L. Kamenetskii: the articles “Historical Stratifications in the Current Statute on Censorship and the Press” and “Censorship Laws in Russia prior to the Appearance of the Censorship Statute” (undated), as well as drafts of letters and speeches (1901). Section 3 includes letters to S. L. Kamenetskii from L. Beliaeva (undated); D. A. Gantover (1903-13); L. G. Lifshits (1902); R. A. Margolis (S. L. Kamenetskii’s sister; 1911); R. S. Rotenberg, secretary of the Commission for the Study of the History of the Labor Union Movement (Istprof) (1928); an appeal from the Jewish Committee for the Relief of War Victims (EKOPO) (1916); etc. Section 4 includes materials of a biographical nature, including S. L. Kamenetskii’s identification papers, tickets, and receipts (1924); a letter from S. E. Liubarskii, deputy director of the Agro-Joint (1934); etc. Section 5 has materials on court cases connected with the activities of S. L. Kamenetskii in his capacity as an attorney (1890s).
Section 6 contains manuscripts and materials for the Perezhitoe [The Past; also translatable as What Has Been Experienced] collection, among them materials on the history of “Jewish plutocracy in Russia” in the latter half of the nineteenth century, including voluminous collections of documents on the financial activities of the Barons Gintsburg (1903-13); a file on the Petrograd Choral Synagogue business board’s recovery from D. S. Poliakov of funds willed by S. S. Poliakov (1914-16); materials on anti-Jewish pogroms, and in particular, “A sermon by Kherson and Odessa Metropolitan Dmitrii on anti-Jewish pogroms” (1871); “A statement by Bessarabia Governor V. S. von Raaben on anti-Jewish pogroms having arisen in the city of Kishinev” (1905); “Materials on anti-Jewish pogroms in Poland and antisemitic agitation among the troops and population” (a memorandum, statement, and testimony; 1914-16); and also manuscripts of S. E. Broid’s article “The Election of a Rabbi in Odessa, or the Story of a Certain Boy” (1900); Kh. Korobkov’s article “Toward a Description of Jewish Trade in the Late 18th c.” (undated); M. I. Kulisher’s article “The Role of Jews in Commerce and Industry. An article on a book by Werner Sombart” (1911); S. Chatskina’s article “New Literature on Heinrich Heine” (undated); an article by an unidentified author titled “Toward the Question of Jewish Craftsmen” (undated); copies of S. E. Sistrin’s letters from the front (Eastern Prussia; 1914); etc.; there are also business documents pertaining to the publication of the Perezhitoe collection, including current accounts of the Moscow People’s Bank, etc.
Section 7 includes materials on the activities of the Committee of the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia (OPE) and other Jewish public organisations of St. Petersburg/Petrograd: articles, instructions, drafts, outlines of speeches, programs, excerpts from the OPE Herald on educational issues, and lists of OPE members; minutes of OPE Committee sessions (January 1919 – December 1922), including on the nationalisation of the Petrograd OPE school (1919); on an announcement by M. I. Litvakov, Moscow representative of the Jewish subsection of the national minorities’ section of the People’s Commissariat of Education, regarding the appointment of I. S. Leitman as OPE commissar (1920); on D. I. Sosis and D. S. Makhlin’s becoming members of the OPE Library’s library commission; and on a request submitted to the Kultur-Lige (Moscow) that it apportion some of “the funds recently provided to the Kultur-Lige by the People’s Commissariat of Education toward the needs of the OPE Library (1921); etc.; minutes of a congress of the Union for the Attainment of Equal Rights for the Jewish People in Russia, including a stenogram of speeches by Vladimir Jabotinsky (November 1905); materials on the establishment of evening courses by the Jewish Society to Assist Extracurricular Education (statements, certificates, permits by the Petrograd city prefect for the holding of evening events and society meetings; 1915-17); documents on the formation of a teachers’ group titled The Jewish School; a draft plan (1916) and charter documents of the Petrograd Jewish Teachers’ Society (1917, 1920); a registration certificate of the Jewish Teachers’ Society (1920), and minutes of sessions and member meetings (1917-18); etc.
Section 8 includes the archive of Tomsk Rabbi E. B. Levin, in particular, letters from L. M. Binshtok, M. M. Vinaver, S. Lande, V. B. Rozovskii, G. Ia. Syrkin, I. Khazanovich, and others; M. I. Kulisher’s passport and death certificate; a letter signed by S. S. Poliakov, Baron G. O. Gintsburg, A. I. Zak, L. M. Rozental’, and M. P. Fridliand on forming the St. Petersburg Society for Handicraft and Agricultural Work among the Jews of Russia (ORT; April 1880). Section 9 contains an offprint of an article by S. L. Kamenetskii titled “Toward the Question of the Right to Open Libraries” (1912); printed copies of OPE charter documents, and supplements to OPE reports (1860s-1910); communications from private Jewish lawyers to the editorial office of the journal Vestnik grazhdanskogo prava [Civil Law Herald] (undated); a letter to L. M. Bramson on the problem of refugees during the First World War (undated); and other documents.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Samuil Lazarevich Kamenetskii (1876-1942) was a historian, attorney, and Jewish public figure. He was a graduate of St. Petersburg University law school; and practiced law in St. Petersburg. In 1900, he began serving as deputy secretary of the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews (OPE), then as its secretary (until 1929); in 1912 he became a member of the OPE committee; and from 1923 on he served as director of the OPE library, where he studied old Hebrew manuscripts in its collection and translated the Hittite law code into Russian. He was a member of the Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Society. He took part in the publication of the Perezhitoe [The Past; also translatable as What Has Been Experienced] collections, which were devoted to the social and cultural history of Jews in Russia. He was one of the founders (1908) of the Jewish Literary Society, and the author of its charter. He was a member of the pedagogic council of Baron D. G. Gintsburg’s Higher Courses on Oriental Studies, and in 1916-17 undertook a reorganisation of this institution. After 1929 he worked in technical libraries of Leningrad. He maintained contact with Jewish public figures (N. R. Botvinnik, D. G. Magid, and others), and with the well-known Orientalists V. V. Struve, I. Iu. Krachkovskii, and others; but he had no opportunity in the 1930s to engage in research in the field of Hebraica and Judaica. He died of hunger during the Siege of Leningrad.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Beliaeva, L.
- Binshtok, L. M.
- Bramson, L. M.
- Broid, S. E.
- Chatskina, S.
- Fridliand, M. P.
- Gantover, D. A.
- Gintsburg, G. O.
- Heine, Heinrich
- Kamenetskii, S. L. (Samuil Lazarevich)
- Khazanovich, I.
- Korobkov, Kh.
- Kulisher, M. I.
- Lande, S.
- Leitman, I. S.
- Levin, E. B.
- Lifshits, L. G.
- Litvakov, M. I.
- Liubarskii, S. E
- Makhlin, D. S.
- Margolis, R. A.
- Poliakov, D. S.
- Poliakov, S. S.
- Rotenberg, R. S.
- Rozental’, L. M.
- Rozovskii, V. B.
- Sistrin, S. E.
- Sombart, Werner
- Sosis, D. I.
- Syrkin, G. Ia.
- Vinaver, M.
- von Raaben, V. S.
- Zak, A. I.
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic propaganda
- Censorship
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Education
- Education--Teachers and professors
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Banks, banking, and bankers
- Financial records
- Legal matters
- Libraries
- Manuscripts
- Memoirs
- Military
- ORT (Organisation for Rehabilitation through training)
- Passports and visas
- Personal records
- Pogroms
- Pogroms--Kishinev pogrom
- Professions
- Professions--Crafts
- Professions--Lawyers
- Rabbis
- Refugees
- Synagogues
- Trade and commerce
- Vital records
- Vital records--Death records
- World War I
- Zionism
- Zionism--Revisionist Zionism
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised by structure.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
