Metadata: Mstislavl’ Crown Jewish School
Collection
- Country:
- Belarus
- Holding institution:
- National Historical Archive of Belarus
- Holding institution (official language):
- Национальный исторический архив Беларуси
- Postal address:
- ul. Kropotkina, 55, Minsk, 220002, Belarus
- Phone number:
- + 375 (17) 286 75 23; 286 76 92
- Web address:
- https://niab.by/newsite/
- Email:
- niab@niab.by
- Reference number:
- F. 2285
- Title:
- Mstislavl’ Crown Jewish School
- Title (official language):
- Мстиславское казенное еврейское училище
- Creator/accumulator:
- Mstislavl’ Crown Jewish School
- Date(s):
- 1859/1875
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 27 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Documents housed in the fond may be provisionally divided into the following thematic groups: 1) Financial reports of the school and appendices to these; statements on inspections of the school’s treasury (1859, 1866, 1867, 1872/1874); income and expense logs (1862, 1864); etc. 2) Much of the fond consists of correspondence with and service records of the school’s teachers (1862/1875), including a statement by the teacher Kogan requesting a copy of a certificate to replace one that had been burned, and requesting a one-time grant; the teacher Mikhlin’s request for his service record; a file on the service of the teacher Hokhman (1862/1868); etc. 3) Information on students, in particular, lists of students (1859, 1861), class logs (1859/1861), and graduation certificates (1866, 1868/1873). 4) Documents pertaining to the organization of Jewish education in the city of Mstislavl’, including lists of melameds and their students (1862); melamed certificates sent from the Directorate of Public Schools of the Mogilev province (1862, 1863, 1867); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- A crown Jewish school (first rank) was established in 1851 in the town of Mstislavl’ (Mogilev province) as a two-year primary school. It was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education and part of the St. Petersburg school district. The curriculum included both Jewish subjects (study of the prayer book, the Bible, the Mishnah, the fundamentals of Halakha and Jewish ethics), as well as general subjects in Russian corresponding to those taught in parish schools. Rabbi B. V. Dubnow (grandfather of the prominent historian Simon Dubnow) was elected honorary trustee of the school by the Jewish community of Mstislavl’. In 1873, it was reorganized as a Jewish elementary school. It was closed in 1874 as a result of the reorganization of the state Jewish education system.
- Access points: locations:
- Mstislavl’
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory without any apparent systematization.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
