Metadata: [Manuscripts of Books, Dissertations, and Articles Received from Other Institutions]
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- The Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera)
- Holding institution (official language):
- Музей антропологии и этнографии им. Петра Великого (Кунсткамера) Российской Академии наук
- Postal address:
- 199034, Rossiia, Sankt-Peterburg, Universitetskaia nab., 3
- Phone number:
- (812) 328-41-81
- Email:
- museum@kunstkamera.ru
- Reference number:
- F. К-V
- Title:
- [Manuscripts of Books, Dissertations, and Articles Received from Other Institutions]
- Title (official language):
- [Рукописи книг, диссертаций и статей, поступившие из других учреждений]
- Creator/accumulator:
- various institutions
- Date(s):
- 1826/2008
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 662 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Materials pertaining to Jewish history and culture may be provisionally divided into two thematic groups. 1) Materials containing statistical and demographic information on Jewish populations, primarily in the USSR, including census documents with appended population tables arranged by rural area [volost’], structured by ethnicity, including Jews, and pertaining to the city of Andijan [Andizhan]; Andijan, Kattakurgan, Kokand, Perovsk, Samarkand, Tashkent, Fergana, Khujand, Shymkent, Skobelev, and Cherniaev counties; and the Transcaspian, Samarkand, Semirech’e, Sirdarya, and Fergana regions (1917-19); as well as statistical data on Karakol’ (Semipalatinsk region), provided by B. D. Gimer, indicating the number of “native Jews” (1927-28); excerpts from materials of the 1926 census on the ethnic makeup of the USSR used to compile a list of nationalities of the Soviet Union published by the Commission to Study the Tribal Makeup of the Population (KIPS), and a pamphlet (with handwritten supplements) titled A List of the Nationalities of the USSR (Leningrad, 1927), indicating the size and distribution of the populations of Karaites and European, Georgian, Mountain, Krymchak, and Central Asian Jews (1936); comments on the draft list of nationalities compiled by the KIPS for the All-Union Census of 1926, which includes a listing of “the Semitic group,” which was intended to include Karaites (1927); samples from materials of the KIPS Central Asian section, including a summary of 1926 materials describing the ethnic makeup of the population of the Bukhara area, with Jews indicated among inhabitants of Novaia Bukhara (1927); brief information about the size and ethnic makeup of the population of the Tajik Republic (excluding Gorno-Badakhshan), including Jews, per data from cards containing information on settlements from the All-Union Census of 1926 (1927); settlement-cards, excerpts, and handwritten tables per the 1926 census describing the population, including the Jewish population, resident in Gorno-Badakhshan, Kurganteppa, Kuliab/Kulob, and Gissar/Hisor wilayahs (counties) of Tajikistan (1935), etc.
2) Manuscripts of articles and dissertations, including “An Essay on the City of Bukhara” by B. Butkevich, with statistical information on “native Jews,” traditional accounts of how Jews came to be in Bukhara, etc. (1926); S. Patkanov’s article “Population Distribution by Religion,” with brief information on the number of “persons of the Judaic confession,” as well as “Judaising” sects, such as the Subbotniks, who are said to “imitate the Jews” (undated); a typewritten copy of a dissertation for the degree of PhD in history by A. L. L’vov titled “The Demotic Movement of Judaizers in Russia, 18th-20th c. (Methodological Aspects of Ethnographic Study)” (2007); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This collection includes manuscripts of books, dissertations, articles, and documentary materials received from other institutions and from private individuals, including works that were submitted for publication in the journal Sovetskaia etnografiia [Soviet Ethnography] but (for various reasons) not published. Assembly of the collection began in 1949. Prior to the war, the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences had distributed programs to local entities requesting that they send materials for the Peoples of the World series under preparation. Hence the receipt of census materials from Central Asia, as well as other documents. Added to the collection later, in the 1960s, were dissertations for the degree of PhD in history written by staff members of various institutions and defended at the Institute of Ethnography.
- Access points: locations:
- Andijan [Andizhan]
- Andijan county
- Bukhara
- Fergana region
- Gorno-Badakhshan
- Karakol’
- Kattakurgan county
- Khujand county
- Kokand county
- Kuliab/Kulob
- Kurganteppa
- Novaia Bukhara
- Russia
- Samarkand county
- Samarkand region
- Semirech’e region
- Shymkent county
- Sirdarya region
- Skobelev county
- St Petersburg
- Tajik Republic
- Tashkent county
- USSR
- Access points: persons/families:
- Butkevich, B
- Gimer, B D
- L’vov, A L
- Patkanov, S
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes a single inventory, with files systematised in the order they were received by the archive.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
