us-005578-irn723169
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archival history: Nat︠s︡ionalʹna istorychna biblioteka Ukraïny
biographical history: Institute of Jewish Culture of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Instytut ievreiskoi kultury pry VUAN). An institution founded in Kyiv in November 1926 to co-ordinate and promote Yiddish pedagogy and scholarship and Jewish studies in the Ukrainian SSR. It was originally a Chair of Jewish Culture. Its first director was the philologist and Jewish civic figure N. Shtif. In 1919 a Hebraist Historical-Archeographic Commission had been established at the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (VUAN) under Ahatanhel Krymsky; its real leader, however, was I. Galant. The commission published articles in Ukrainian learned journals and collections and its own Zbirnyk prats' (2 vols, 1928–9) before being abolished in 1929. It was then that the Chair of Jewish Culture, under the direction of Y. Liberberg, was upgraded into an institute. The institute had a sizable staff (30 in 1929, over 100 in 1934) and consisted of eight sections: philology (headed by N. Shtif and then Eliahu Spivak), history (Y. Liberberg and then A. Margolis), literature (N. Oyslender and then M. Wiener), pedagogy-pedology (Y. Yakhinson), socioeconomic (I. Weizblit, from 1930), bibliology (A. Kvitny); ethnography (M. Wiener), and Birobidzhan studies (from 1934). It had a large library (based on that of the former Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Society, est 1908), an archive (including that of the Society for the Spread of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia, est 1863), a bibliographic center, a press archive, and a graduate program. A branch in Odesa, with the historian S. Borovoi as head, was short-lived (1928–9). The institute worked closely with official Jewish scholarly institutions in Moscow and Minsk. With the demise of the policy of Ukrainization and the onslaught of Stalinism, the institute suffered persecution (eg, the harassment of Shtif [d 1933] and the removal of Weizblit in 1931 and Oyslender in 1932). Nonetheless, from 1931 to 1936 it was the leading Jewish scholarly institution in the USSR…
conditions of use: Copyright Holder: Nat︠s︡ionalʹna istorychna biblioteka Ukraïny
has beginning date: 1880-01-01
has end date: 1968-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had identifier: 2
has or had some members with language: pol
has or had some members with language: heb
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had some members with language: yid
has or had some members with language: ukr
has or had some members with language: rus
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had subject: 684
has or had subject: 843
has or had subject: 694
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn723169
record resource extent: 29,342 digital images, TIFF
record resource structure: Arranged in seven subject groups: 1. Beregovski correspondence; 2. Jewish folksongs, music and inventories; 3. Autobiography of Frima Davidova Roytman, popular poet and songwriter; 4. Jewish folktales, songs, anecdotes, stories etc. collected by various collectors and inventory books; 5. Minutes, letters and newspaper clippings; 6. Materials/notes for books and articles; 7. Sound archives.
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Consists of archive of the Jewish folk culture collected by the Cabinet of the Jewish Culture of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The collection includes Jewish folk songs, proverbs, aphorisms, fairy tales, musical scores and other folk materials collected by the Cabinet of Jewish Culture and its predecessors institutions (e.g. Institute of Jewish Proletarian Culture). Includes also correspondence of Moisey Beregovsky, head of the folklore section and his staff members, with collectors and performers of Jewish folklore, notes from the ethnographic expeditions to collect Jewish folklore undertaken by Beregovsky in the liberated areas of Soviet Ukraine, typed manuscript of the unpublished book"Jewish Folklore during the Great Patriotic Wa", testimonies of Holocaust survivors collected for the publication in"Black Book of the Soviet Jewr" and other materials. The collection also contains various materials from 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries and includes materials collected by Sh. Anski (Shloyme Rapoport) during the first ethnographic expeditions to the Jewish Pale of Settlement and personal records (articles, diary, correspondence) as well as various records of Jewish ethnomusicologists Z. Kisselgoff and Yu. Engel (articles and lectures, correspondence, musical scores, etc.); fragmentary records (bylaws, minutes of the meetings, circular letters, and correspondence) of the Jewish public organizations active in the Russian Empire, such as Society of the Enlightenment of Jewish People, Jewish-Ethnographic Society, Jewish Emigration Society, and others; and a significant number of other materials, photocopies of various rabbinical texts and documents acquired by N. Shtif, a staff member of the Cabinet, from various libraries and manuscript collections in the United States, England, Germany, and France, preparatory materials for the Ukrainian-Yiddish dictionary, a card catalog with information about the Jewish population of Ukraine ( 1947), etc.
title: "Cabinet of the Jewish Culture of the Ukrainian Academy of Science" from the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (Fond 190)