Metadata: School inspectorate of Arad county
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Romania, Arad county directorate
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Nationale Române. Direcţia judeţeană Arad
- Postal address:
- Strada Piotr Ilici Ceaikovski 2-6, 310052 Arad
- Phone number:
- 0040-257-233818
- Reference number:
- 38
- Title:
- School inspectorate of Arad county
- Title (official language):
- Inspectoratul şcolar al judeţului Arad
- Creator/accumulator:
- School inspectorate of Arad county
- Date(s):
- 1889/1972
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 512 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the files of the school inspectorate of Arad county between 1889 and 1972. It contains official correspondence with schools in the county and with the central authorities (until 1920 in Budapest and after the First World War in Bucharest), reports, plans of work, school accounts and registers of entry and issue of records. The most important part of the records are statistics for the number of schools, the schoolchildren according to their ethnic and confessional status, their mother tongue, their social background, the teaching personnel and the literacy and illiteracy in the county. These statistics can be used to track Jewish students and teaching staff of the county’s schools through the different historical conditions of the Austro-Hungarian period, Greater Romania, the Holocaust years and the post-Holocaust period including the Communist regime and the Aliyah period. The most relevant data from the years of antisemitic regulations are to be found in the files No. 42/1938; 45/1939; 66/1941; 132/1943.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was preserved by the School Inspectorate of Arad county. After 1989 it was transferred to the Arad county directorate of the Romanian National Archives, inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The school inspectorate of Arad county was established in the second half of the 19th century in accordance with the Law of popular education issued by the Hungarian parliament in Budapest. It was originally liberal but was gradually subordinated to the political intention of extending the role and importance of primary education in Hungarian for children of all ethnic and confessional affiliations in Hungary and Transylvania. After the First World War, in the framework of the Greater Romania, the Romanian legislation promoted the tendencies of the Romanian nationalism. Until the Second World War the number of Jewish schoolchildren and teaching staff corresponded to the considerable proportion of Jews in the population of Arad county. During the Holocaust period, discrimination and exclusionary provisions considerably reduced this participation. After the Second World War, especially after the Communist reform of the educational system, confessional education was eliminated and the Aliyah of most of the Jewish population of the county further reduced the Jewish presence in the schools in Arad county.
- Access points: locations:
- Arad county
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised in thematic sections, within which the files are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories no.98; 100; 707, held by the Arad county directorate of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Attila Gidó, researcher, Institute for Study of National Minorities Cluj-Napoca - 2018; Ladislau Gyémánt, emeritus professor - 2018