Metadata: Central Committee of the Jewish Colonization Association
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- Russian State Historical Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Российский государственный исторический архив
- Postal address:
- 195112, g. Sankt-Peterburg, Zanevskii pr., d. 36
- Phone number:
- 8 (812) 438-55-20
- Web address:
- https://fgurgia.ru
- Email:
- fgurgia@mail.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 1676
- Title:
- Central Committee of the Jewish Colonization Association
- Title (official language):
- Центральный комитет Еврейского колонизационного общества
- Creator/accumulator:
- Central Committee of the Jewish Colonization Association
- Date(s):
- 1900/1911
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 1 storage unit
- Type of material:
- Textual Material
- Scope and content:
- Housed in the fonds is a file titled “Correspondence with the Board of the Society to Aid Poor Jews in the Town of Mir (Minsk province) on opening a metalworking and blacksmithing training workshop in Mir,” which includes the following documents: the charter of the Society to Aid Poor Jews in the Town of Mir (1900); a petition to the Central Committee of the JCA by the Board of the Society to Aid Poor Jews in the Town of Mir – signed by the board’s deputy chair, the public health physician M. Davidsky, and board members Sh. Kh. Amdursky, I. Slonimsky, L. Aizikovich, Sh. Pisetsner, and Secretary Rozovsky, and dated 26 September 1900 – for grant money to open a crafts training school for underprivileged youth, and correspondence on this subject; a trip report dated 4 July 1901 by B. M. Frumkin, who had been tasked by the Central Committee of the JCA with visiting and reporting on the town of Mir; information on the town of Mir based on JCA materials from 1898-1900, indicating the number of master craftsmen, apprentices, and pupils (male and female) in various specialties, as well as on their average annual earnings; a copy of a statement (dated 11 March 1911) sent by the Department of General Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the JCA Central Committee regarding minutes of the latter that had been submitted to the Ministry of Internal Affairs; correspondence and paperwork pertaining to loans and JCA activities in providing agricultural training to Jewish farmers in colonies of the Kherson, Ekaterinoslav, and southwestern and northwestern provinces, and on the keeping of a plant nursery in the town of Soroki, Bessarabia province (now Soroca, Moldova).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- On 8 August 1892, the minister of internal affairs approved a list of members of the Central Committee of the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA), consisting of ten persons. At a meeting on 1 February 1893, the Central Committee elected Baron G. O. Gintsburg its chair, Ia. S. Poliakov vice-chair, I. A. Vavelberg treasurer, and D. F. Feinberg chief secretary. The Central Committee was permanently based in St. Petersburg. The Central Committee organized an advisory bureau whose members were Jewish public figures. It was liquidated along with the JCA in 1938.
- Access points: locations:
- Bessarabia
- Mir
- Soroki (Soroca)
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- B. M. Frumkin
- M. Davidsky
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory containing one storage item.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary