Metadata: Surazh 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. 2605
- Title:
- Surazh Crown Jewish School
- Title (official language):
- СУРАЖСКОЕ КАЗЕННОЕ ЕВРЕЙСКОЕ УЧИЛИЩЕ
- Creator/accumulator:
- Surazh Crown Jewish School
- Date(s):
- 1855/1877
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 138 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Materials housed in the fond may be provisionally divided into the following thematic groups: 1) Records, including financial documents and reports on school operations (1858/1867, 1875); circulars and correspondence with provincial authorities on funding allocated for the maintenance of the school; correspondence with the municipal duma on school operations (1873); files on the rental of premises for the school, in particular, the rental of property from the daughter of the titular councilor Klepik (1859/1862) and from the merchant Ginzburg (1872); information on the technical support of the school’s learning process and library (1858/1869); minutes of meetings of the school’s pedagogical council, with appended curricula (1858/1877); logs of teachers’ proposals as to how the educational process should be organized (1858); etc. 2) Financial documentation, including cash books (1859/1867, 1870/1877); income and expense budgets (1867/1868, 1873/1877); records of the receipt of funding from the candle tax for the maintenance of the school (1860s); etc. 3) Information on the school’s staff, in particular, lists of school officials and teachers (1872); copies of teachers’ service records, and files on their hiring and dismissal (1859/1870s), etc. 4) Data on students, including lists of Jewish boys from seven to fourteen years old for the city of Surazh (1867); class logs (1861, 1873/1876); various lists of students; school performance records (1859/1865) and logs for recording student performance (1873); examination forms (1855/1860, 1871/1873); copies of school diplomas (1870s); lists of Jewish children studying Russian (1872); etc. 5) Materials on the organization of Jewish education in the city of Surazh: lists of melameds compiled by crown rabbis (1859/1870s) and lists of pupils of melameds for the city of Surazh (1871/1872).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The school was established no earlier than 1855. Beginning in 1858, it operated as a state-run Jewish school (first rank) for boys with a two-year primary curriculum. It was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education and part (until 1864) of the St. Petersburg school district. The curriculum included Jewish subjects (study of the prayer book, the Bible, the Mishnah, the fundamentals of Halakha and Jewish ethics, and the German language – in the 1860s, taught by S. Tsirel’son and A. Ass), as well as general subjects in Russian (taught by N. K. Nizhnitskii) corresponding to those taught in the parish schools. In 1873, it was reorganized as a Jewish elementary school. It ceased operations around 1874 as a result of the reorganization of the state Jewish education system.
- Access points: locations:
- Surazh
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory systematized chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
