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1873/1915
The Jewish Teachers Institute of Vilnius
CAH-0049
CAH
rus
Textual material
good
LT
Lithuanian State Historical Archives
Lietuvos valstybės istorijos archyvas
lit
Gerosios Vilties g. 10, 03134 Vilnius
(8 5) 213 74 82
http://www.archyvai.lt/lt/lvia_naujienos.html
istorijos.archyvas@lvia.lt
f. 570
archival reference number
Vilniaus žydų mokytojų institutas
lit
Jewish Teachers Institute of Vilnius
1873
1915
32 files
The documents include various data on the institute's activity: lists of students, grades and personal data; records on exams, teachers' meetings and programmes of studies; and data on the institute's building and equipment, including correspondence on the establishment of an educational meteorological station in 1883). Correspondence from the late 1890s refers to the institute's exhibits at the Paris World’s Fair of 1900. Other documents include data on financial matters, such as the collection of tuition fees and the collection of the taxes which provided the funding for the institute (mostly the candle tax in various localities). Some files include data on the teachers at the institute: salaries, promotions, state service ranks and other information.
The papers also include disciplinary records and data on expelled pupils, such as a list of pupils expelled from various institutions between 1902 and 1910. Some documents mention revolutionary activities: correspondence from 1901 refers to a student arrested on suspicion of forbidden political activity; papers from 1903 mention students who were involved in illegal activities, such as a debate between Zionist and Bundist agitators held in Vilnius in 1903. Later correspondence mentions students' involvement in political activities – gatherings, demonstrations and so on – during the revolution of 1905-07. Official correspondence from 1912 mentions a letter by the Russian extremist right-wing League of the Archangel Michael (Soiuz Mikhaila Arkhangela) which claims the institute to be a "revolutionary nest."
The collection also contains data on Jewish elementary schools (including a Talmud Tora in Vilnius) which were put under the institute's supervision, including records from the late 1900s and early 1910s which list pupils of Jewish elementary schools throughout the educational district of Vilnius.
Files from the late 1870s include appeals by graduates of the former rabbinical school needing recommendations or documents from the institute's archive. Certain files in the institute's collection contain papers which originate from the last years of the rabbinical school’s operation.]]>
Prior to the 1917 revolution the records of the Russian administration in Vilnius, including the materials of state-run institutions of education, were kept in a government depository. In the early 1920s they were transferred to the newly established Vilnius State Archive, which became a part of the Central State Archive of the Lithuanian SSR in 1940. In 1957, together with other pre-revolutionary documentation, these materials were included in the Central State Historical Archive of the Lithuanian SSR, predecessor of the current State Historical Archive. <br/><br/> The materials of the rabbinical school which preceded the teachers’ institute constitute a separate collection (LVIA f. 577). Additional materials on the teachers’ institute can be found in the archive of the headquarters of the educational district of Vilnius (LVIA f. 567).
The Jewish Teachers’ Institute of Vilnius was established in 1873 as a result of a reorganisation of the Rabbinical School of Vilnius. The institute functioned through the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was closed during World War I. Between 1873 and 1885 a parallel institution existed in Zhitomir.
Vilnius
Revolutions
Education
Education--Teachers and professors
Education--Vocational training
Education--Schools and universities
Financial matters
Jewish political activity
Education--Students
The collection consists of one inventory, which is arranged according to chronological/thematic order.
The collection is open for reference at LVIA.
Basic information in Lithuanian and an inventory in Russian are available at the online catalogue of LVIA. A more detailed inventory in Russian is available at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People.
https://eais-pub.archyvai.lt/eais/faces/pages/forms/search/F3001.jspx?_afPfm=-7dec7f9e.6
The materials were microfilmed by the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem and are accessible there.
Alex Valdman, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2014
Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People