Metadata: O. V. Dashevskaia
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- The Centre “Petersburg Judaica”
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центр «Петербургская иудаика»
- Postal address:
- 191187, St. Petersburg, Gagarinskaia ul., d. 6, k. 1, lit. А; European University at St. Petersburg
- Phone number:
- (812) 386-7637
- Email:
- judaica@eu.spb.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 8
- Title:
- O. V. Dashevskaia
- Title (official language):
- Дашевская О. В.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Dashevskaia, Ol’ga Veniaminovna
- Date(s):
- 1853/2003
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 19 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Graphic material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The documents in this fonds may be provisionally divided into four thematic groups:
1) Preparatory materials used by O. V. Dashevskaia for her articles and exhibitions, including extracts from archival sources on the history of legislation pertaining to Jews in the Russian Empire; statistics on the proportion of Jews in various sectors of the economy of St. Petersburg for 1895, 1904, and 1913 (calculated by O. V. Dashevskaia and D. I. Raskin based on the Ves’ Peterburg reference books; late 1990s); archaeographic descriptions of fonds containing documents pertaining to Jewish history and culture in the Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg, the Central State Archive of St. Petersburg, the Central State Archive of Cine-, Photo-, and Phono-Documents of St. Petersburg (late 1990s-2000s); etc.
2) Copies of documents on the history of legislation pertaining to Jews in the Russian Empire and the USSR; the statistics and demography of the Jewish population of St. Petersburg; the construction of the Great Choral Synagogue; the activities of Jewish educational and philanthropic societies; the Jewish press; Hebrew studies; etc., from the Russian State Historical Archive, the Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg, the Central State Archive of St. Petersburg, the Central State Archive of Cine-, Photo-, and Phono-Documents of St. Petersburg, the Manuscripts Department of the National Library of Russia, and the archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies (19th-20th century).
3) Graphic materials, including photographs of monuments at St. Petersburg’s Jewish (Preobrazhenskii) cemetery, photographs of buildings in St. Petersburg built by Jewish architects (late 19th – early 20th c.) and of buildings connected with the history of the Jewish community in St. Petersburg; photographs of events held by various Jewish organisations of Leningrad/St. Petersburg (late 1980s – early 2000s); photographic portraits of Jewish cultural figures and leaders of the St. Petersburg Jewish community; photographs of works by the sculptor M. M. Antokol’skii; photocopies of headings, title pages, and articles from Jewish periodicals, compendia, individual studies, etc.
4) Booklets from exhibitions, in particular, from “Petersburg Jews in Documents and Photographs of the 19th – 20th century” (1994); “The History of the ORT in Russia” and “The Gintsburgs in St. Petersburg” (1994); the catalogue from B. Shvartsman’s photography exhibition “Contemporaries” (2003); etc.
- Archival history:
- The documents that constitute this fonds were transferred to the Centre “Petersburg Judaica” by O. V. Dashevskaia in 2007.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Ol’ga Veniaminovna Dashevskaia (born 1946) is a historian and curator of exhibitions on Jewish history and culture. In 1971, she graduated from the history department of Leningrad’s A. I. Herzen Pedagogical Institute. Before entering the institute, she worked at the Russian Fonds of the Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library. From 1972 to 1990, she worked as a guide for the Leningrad municipal excursion bureau. In 1990, she joined the staff of the St. Petersburg Jewish University (now the St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies). During this period, she took part in a number of the university’s projects and in historical-ethnographic expeditions to former Jewish towns in Belarus and Ukraine. She also collaborated with various Jewish organisations of St. Petersburg to create documentary exhibitions on the history of Jews in Russia. On the initiative of (among other organisations) the St. Petersburg branch of the Joint Distribution Committee, the ORT-Gintsburg Centre, the Jewish Community Centre of St. Petersburg and the St. Petersburg Jewish Religious Community, O. V. Dashevskaia has prepared, together with D. I. Raskin, the following exhibitions: “Petersburg Jews in Documents and Photographs of the 19th – 20th century” (Museum of the History of Leningrad and the Russian Museum of Ethnography, 1994), “The History of the ORT in Russia” and “The Gintsburgs in St. Petersburg” (ORT-Gintsburg Centre, 1995, 2000), “The History of the Jewish Press in Russia” (Jewish Community Centre of St. Petersburg, 1997; also exhibited in Petrozavodsk, Novgorod and Velikie Luki) and “Stories of the Jewish Community of St. Petersburg” (Great Choral Synagogue, 2003). In the 1990s-2000s, she took an active part in the “Documents on Jewish History and Culture in the Archives of St. Petersburg” project. Her major works are “Methodological Issues of Teaching Jewish History” (Evreiskaia shkola [Jewish School], nos. 3-4, 1993); “On the History of Jewish Education in St. Petersburg” (Evreiskaia shkola [Jewish School], nos. 2-3, 1995); “Old and New Forms of Philanthropy in the St. Petersburg Jewish Community” (Istoriia Peterburga, no. 2 [48], 2009); “Documents on the Jews of St. Petersburg in One Collection in the Russian State Historical Archive” (Jews in Eastern Europe, no. 2 [27] 1995) and “Jews of Petersburg. Three Centuries of History” (with D. I. Raskin, and with the participation of A. M. Markova and O. Vinogradov; CD-ROM; St. Petersburg, 2000).
The research, educational and exhibition centre “Petersburg Judaica” began operations in the 1998-99 academic year as an inter-departmental research and teaching group at the European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP). In late 1999, the centre was registered as a nonprofit organisation to study and promote the cultural heritage of the Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe. From 2000 to 2004, it operated under a joint-operations agreement with the Russian Institute of Art History (RIII) and was located on the premises of that institute (the former palace of Count V. P. Zubov at 5 St. Isaac’s Square). The first exhibition prepared by the centre’s staff, titled “The Great Synagogues. The Third Destruction of the Temple,” opened in the exhibition hall of the Institute of Art History in 2000. Currently the Centre “Petersburg Judaica” exists, on the one hand, as an independent structure; on the other, it operates within the European University at St. Petersburg as the Inter-Departmental Centre for Judaica of the European University at St. Petersburg (MFTs PI). Since 2004, the latter has enrolled students in the European University at St. Petersburg who, while studying in one of the university’s departments, simultaneously engage in a special advanced training program in the field of Jewish studies. The centre is distinguished by its many years of experience in the conduct of field research. The staff of the Centre “Petersburg Judaica” AA4conduct research, educational and exhibition activities, striving to ensure that all three areas of work are interconnected. Since 2000, the centre has held about 40 exhibitions devoted to various aspects of Jewish culture, art, history and ethnography in close cooperation with the State Museum of the History of Religion, the Russian Ethnographic Museum, the State Russian Museum, the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, the ROSFOTO Museum and Exhibition Centre and several museums and art galleries in Israel, France, Switzerland and the United States. In the course of the activities of the Centre “Petersburg Judaica” its staff have organised a research archive and collections of paintings and graphic works of Jewish artists of Leningrad/St. Petersburg of various periods, including works by N. I. Al’tman, S. B. Iudovin, A. L. Kaplan, L. G. Nissenbaum, A. S. Zaslavskii, A. I. Zinshtein, T. V. Pogorel’skaia, L. Ia. Grol’man and A. V. Lukina, as well as a collection of artistic photographs by M. Kheifets. Since 2013, the Centre “Petersburg Judaica” has been a member of the Association of European Jewish Museums.
- Access points: locations:
- Russia
- St Petersburg
- Access points: persons/families:
- Antokol’skii, M. M.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises a single series arranged thematically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
