Metadata: Expedition Materials (Consolidated Fonds)
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies
- Holding institution (official language):
- Петербургский институт иудаики
- Postal address:
- 191036, St. Petersburg, 1-aia Sovetskaia ul., d. 10, lit. K, 1-N
- Phone number:
- (812)449-52-50
- Web address:
- http://pijs.ru/ob_arhive
- Email:
- archive@pijs.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 1
- Title:
- Expedition Materials (Consolidated Fonds)
- Title (official language):
- Экспедиционный (объединенный) фонд
- Date(s):
- 1983/1998
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 462 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Audio
- Moving images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains expedition reports, including manuscripts of expedition journals and audio and video interviews recorded with town residents, as well as local publications given to expedition members by the staff of local history museums and local residents, in particular, “Synopses of Reports of the Scholarly-Practical Conference ‘Issues in and the Development of Jewish Culture in Belarus’” (1993); a booklet of the open-air museum in Rumsiskes (Lithuania, 1993); the Popular-Science Bulletin of the Museum of the History of the City of Kolomyia “Litopis Kolomiiskii”, no. 1 (1993), etc.; newspapers brought back from expeditions: a special edition of the newspaper Vitebchane dedicated to a Marc Chagal conference in Vitebsk (3-5 July 1992); the newspaper Aviv (no. 3; June 1993); an informational and advertising supplement to the newspaper Vestnik Kolomyii – Kolomyia (January 1991); etc.
The fonds also contains a collection of prints of reliefs from Jewish gravestones made at Jewish cemeteries in the population centres of Busk, Brody, Pechenezhin, Vishnevets, Ataki, Brichany, Voroshilovka, Medzhibozh, Murafa, etc.
- Archival history:
- Materials were archived by expedition leaders as the documents collected were processed. PhotoGraphic materials from expeditions were housed in a separate fonds – see the description of f. 9 (“Negatives and Photographs”) of the Archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Historical-ethnographic expeditions were conducted in the territory of the former Soviet Union from 1983 to 1998. (For detail on these expeditions, see V. Dymshits, “Dva puteshestviia po odnoi doroge”, in Istoriia evreev na Ukraine i v Belorussii: Expeditsii. Pamiatniki. Nakhodki (St. Petersburg: The St. Petersburg Jewish University, 1994), 6-14; and B. Khaimovich, “Istoriko-etnograficheskie ekspeditsii Peterburgskogo evreiskogo universiteta”, ibid., 15-43.) The expeditions were organised by I. Dvorkin, B. Khaimovich and V. Dymshits; participating in them were D. Vilenskii, A. Gersht, I. Gorenshtein, D. Dashevskii, O. Dymshits, M. Dobrusin, L. Zlochevskii, E. Korzakova, V. Lukin, L. Maksimov, E. Polanker, A. Sokolova, M. Kheifets, A. Chernina and others. Most of the materials collected during the expeditions pertain to cities and towns of Eastern Europe that had a significant Jewish population prior to the Second World War, in particular, Medzhibozh, Slavuta, Annopol’, Buchach, Shargorod, etc. (Ukraine); Vitebsk, Mir, Baranovichi, Grodno, Volkovysk, etc. (Belarus); Ataki, Briceni, Lipcani, etc. (Moldova); Daugavpils, Preili, Rezekne, Kraslava, Egline, Malta (Latvia); etc.
- Access points: locations:
- Ataki
- Brichany
- Brody
- Busk
- Kolomyia
- Medzhibozh
- Murafa
- Pechenezhin
- Rumšiškės
- Vishnevets
- Subject terms:
- Ethnography
- Manuscripts
- Oral history
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises 13 series arranged chronologically, and in part in the order that the documents were received.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary