Metadata : A. V. Sokolova
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
- 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. 2
- Title:
- A. V. Sokolova
- Title (official language):
- Соколова А. В.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Sokolova, Alla Viktorovna
- Date(s):
- late 19th c./2008
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 1,837 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Graphic material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
[The fonds is periodically supplemented with new materials; this description is as of April 2017.]
Op. 1 includes photo-negatives of row houses (facades, interiors, furnishings) and synagogues (facades, interiors) taken by A. V. Sokolova in the period of 1993-2008 in settlements of the Vinnytsia and Khmelnytsky regions of Ukraine, in particular, in Bershad’, Bratslav, Verbovtsy, Voronovtsy, Voroshilovka, Gaisin/Haysyn, Gorodkovka, Dzygovka/Dzyhivka, Kamenets-Podol’skii (districts of Karvasary), Kodyma, Kopaigorod, Litin, Luchintsy, Min’kovtsy, Mogilev-Podol’skii, Murafa, Novaia Ushitsa, Ozarintsy, Ol’gopol’, Orynin, Peschanka, Satanov, Stanislavchik, Starokonstantinov, Tomashpol’, Tul’chin, Tyvrov, Khmelnytsky, Chernevtsy, Chechel’nik, Shargorod, Shpikov and Iaruga.
Op. 2 includes schematics of Jewish homes surveyed, made on the basis of measurements and schematics provided by homeowners and local inventory bureaus (1994-98); photo-negatives of reshot archival documentary materials, in particular, blueprints of shtetl synagogues and row houses (late 19th - early 20th century).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was formed as a result of research A. V. Sokolova conducted on the topic of “The Traditional Architectural Environment of Shtetls of Podolia. 18th - early 20th c.” (the Vinnytsia and Khmelnytsky regions of Ukraine) in 1993-98. The fonds was supplemented with photographs taken in 2000-08 during expeditions and fieldwork summer courses of the Centre “Petersburg Judaica” in which A. V. Sokolova took part.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Alla Viktorovna Sokolova (b. 1959) is a researcher of Jewish material culture. Since 1999, she has been a founder and research associate of the Centre “Petersburg Judaica” and the Inter-Departmental Centre for Judaica of the European University at St. Petersburg (MFTs PI), and an exhibition curator. Since 2008, she has been head researcher of the State Museum of the History of Religion and curator of its Judaism fonds, and the curator of numerous exhibitions on Jewish history and culture organised by the museum and by the Centre “Petersburg Judaica”.
She defended a dissertation on “The Traditional Architectural Environment of Shtetls of Podolia. 18th - early 20th c.” for her PhD in architecture in 2002 (Research Institute for the Theory and History of Architecture and City Planning, Moscow). This research focused on houses hand-built from local building materials in accordance with the house-building tradition of shtetls of Podolia. The specific features of this tradition were investigated by juxtaposing the results of a comparative-typological analysis of material obtained by on-location architectural surveys (including measurements) with data from interviews with local inhabitants (Jewish and Ukrainian); both these factors made it possible to define the market-adjacent neighbourhoods of former shtetls as territories of compact Jewish settlement and the suburbs as Ukrainian. In her dissertation, Sokolova views the architectural environment of the shtetls of Podolia, or more precisely, their trade and craft centres, as a local ethnocultural phenomenon.
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” conduct 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:
- Bershad’
- Bratslav
- Chechel’nik
- Chernevtsy
- Dzygovka
- Gorodkovka
- Haysyn
- Iaruga
- Kamenets-Podol’skii
- Khmelnytsky
- Kodyma
- Kopaigorod
- Litin
- Luchintsy
- Min’kovtsy
- Mogilev-Podol’skii
- Murafa
- Nova Ushitsa
- Ol’gopol’
- Orynin
- Ozarintsy
- Peschanka
- Podolia
- Satanov
- Shargorod
- Shpikov
- Stanislavchik
- Starokonstantinov
- Tul’chin
- Tyvrov
- Ukraine
- Verbovtsy
- Vinnytsia
- Subject terms:
- Architecture
- Jewish community
- Synagogues
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises two series arranged geographically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Reference number:
- F. 2
- Title:
- A. V. Sokolova
- Title (official language):
- Соколова А. В.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Sokolova, Alla Viktorovna
- Date(s):
- late 19th c./2008
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 1,837 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Graphic material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
[The fonds is periodically supplemented with new materials; this description is as of April 2017.]
Op. 1 includes photo-negatives of row houses (facades, interiors, furnishings) and synagogues (facades, interiors) taken by A. V. Sokolova in the period of 1993-2008 in settlements of the Vinnytsia and Khmelnytsky regions of Ukraine, in particular, in Bershad’, Bratslav, Verbovtsy, Voronovtsy, Voroshilovka, Gaisin/Haysyn, Gorodkovka, Dzygovka/Dzyhivka, Kamenets-Podol’skii (districts of Karvasary), Kodyma, Kopaigorod, Litin, Luchintsy, Min’kovtsy, Mogilev-Podol’skii, Murafa, Novaia Ushitsa, Ozarintsy, Ol’gopol’, Orynin, Peschanka, Satanov, Stanislavchik, Starokonstantinov, Tomashpol’, Tul’chin, Tyvrov, Khmelnytsky, Chernevtsy, Chechel’nik, Shargorod, Shpikov and Iaruga.
Op. 2 includes schematics of Jewish homes surveyed, made on the basis of measurements and schematics provided by homeowners and local inventory bureaus (1994-98); photo-negatives of reshot archival documentary materials, in particular, blueprints of shtetl synagogues and row houses (late 19th - early 20th century).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was formed as a result of research A. V. Sokolova conducted on the topic of “The Traditional Architectural Environment of Shtetls of Podolia. 18th - early 20th c.” (the Vinnytsia and Khmelnytsky regions of Ukraine) in 1993-98. The fonds was supplemented with photographs taken in 2000-08 during expeditions and fieldwork summer courses of the Centre “Petersburg Judaica” in which A. V. Sokolova took part.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Alla Viktorovna Sokolova (b. 1959) is a researcher of Jewish material culture. Since 1999, she has been a founder and research associate of the Centre “Petersburg Judaica” and the Inter-Departmental Centre for Judaica of the European University at St. Petersburg (MFTs PI), and an exhibition curator. Since 2008, she has been head researcher of the State Museum of the History of Religion and curator of its Judaism fonds, and the curator of numerous exhibitions on Jewish history and culture organised by the museum and by the Centre “Petersburg Judaica”.
She defended a dissertation on “The Traditional Architectural Environment of Shtetls of Podolia. 18th - early 20th c.” for her PhD in architecture in 2002 (Research Institute for the Theory and History of Architecture and City Planning, Moscow). This research focused on houses hand-built from local building materials in accordance with the house-building tradition of shtetls of Podolia. The specific features of this tradition were investigated by juxtaposing the results of a comparative-typological analysis of material obtained by on-location architectural surveys (including measurements) with data from interviews with local inhabitants (Jewish and Ukrainian); both these factors made it possible to define the market-adjacent neighbourhoods of former shtetls as territories of compact Jewish settlement and the suburbs as Ukrainian. In her dissertation, Sokolova views the architectural environment of the shtetls of Podolia, or more precisely, their trade and craft centres, as a local ethnocultural phenomenon.
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” conduct 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:
- Bershad’
- Bratslav
- Chechel’nik
- Chernevtsy
- Dzygovka
- Gorodkovka
- Haysyn
- Iaruga
- Kamenets-Podol’skii
- Khmelnytsky
- Kodyma
- Kopaigorod
- Litin
- Luchintsy
- Min’kovtsy
- Mogilev-Podol’skii
- Murafa
- Nova Ushitsa
- Ol’gopol’
- Orynin
- Ozarintsy
- Peschanka
- Podolia
- Satanov
- Shargorod
- Shpikov
- Stanislavchik
- Starokonstantinov
- Tul’chin
- Tyvrov
- Ukraine
- Verbovtsy
- Vinnytsia
- Subject terms:
- Architecture
- Jewish community
- Synagogues
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises two series arranged geographically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
