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Mauricy Weis (1912 Lviv-1998 Rishon LeZion) was an archivist and archival administrator in Tashkent (Uzbekistan). He was born to a religiously observant family and received a traditional Jewish education in Lviv. In the early 1930s, he studied at the philological faculty of Lviv University, from which he could not graduate because pro-fascist students initiated anti-Jewish actions, and expelled the Jews from the university. After the annexation of Western Ukraine by the USSR in September 1939, in accordance with the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, Mauricy Weis was able to return to the university, and graduated in 1940. He worked as a researcher at the Lviv regional archive, and after the outbreak of the “Great Patriotic War” was evacuated, and worked in several archives. He worked as a researcher at the Tashkent Regional Archives, and from 1943 as a senior research fellow at the Archives Department of the NKVD in Uzbekistan. In 1959 he was appointed as deputy head of the department, and held the position of deputy head of the archives’ authorities in Uzbekistan while the department was reorganized. He retired in 1985. Mauricy Weis was editor and compiler of many collections of documents. In 1996 he moved to Israel. The collection of Mauricy Weis consists of his private documents and materials related to history of the Jews in Uzbekistan. There are: extracts from works on the history of the Jews of Central Asia and the Tat people; newspapers’ and magazines’ clippings with publications about Jewish history; index cards with names of famous Jewish figures. The collection also contains a 1995 interview with Mauricy Weis, and an article (from 2011) about his activities as a prominent archivist in Uzbekistan --

Reference Code
P313
Dates
1940-2011
Consists of
6 files..
Languages
Russian; Yiddish;
Description
The collection contains historical documents about the life and work of archivist Mauricy Weis in Uzbekistan. The collection includes an extract from Weis’s employment record book (1940-1959) with information about his activities, a list of his awards and a card index of his works. The collection contains a copy of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Uzbek SSR on granting Mauricy Weis the title "Honored Worker of Culture of the Uzbek SSR" in 1968. An important part of the collection are Weis's notebooks with various extracts regarding Jewish history. There are extracts from the historical works of several authors on the history of the Jews and other ethnic groups (Tat people) in Central Asia and the Caucasus (1963-1973). There are also clippings from Polish and Soviet newspapers including the clippings from a Yiddish-language literary magazine “Sovetish Heymland” (1980-1993). In addition, the collection contains: three issues of the Communist Tel Aviv Yiddish-language newspaper “Der Veg” (1980s); a card index belonging to Weis with the names of famous Jewish figures from different periods and countries; an interview by Max Vekselman with Weis in 1995; and Vekselman’s article (2011) about Mauricy Weis's activities as a prominent archivist in the Soviet Uzbekistan.
Title Weis, Mauricy.
Contributors Maks IsakovichVekselman
Lʹvivsʹkyĭ nat︠s︡ionalʹnyĭ universytet imeni Ivana Franka
Host Item Weis, Mauricy - Private Collection
Level of Description Fonds Record
Biographical summary Mauricy Weis was an archivist and archival administrator in Tashkent (Uzbekistan). He was born in Lviv (then Habsburg Empire) in 1912 to a religiously observant family, and received a traditional Jewish education in Heder. Later he studied in public Jewish school, and in a Polish gymnasium, from which he graduated in 1930. He enrolled at the philological faculty of the Lviv University, from which he could not graduate because pro-fascist students staged anti-Jewish actions, and expelled the Jews from the university. After the annexation of Western Ukraine by the USSR in September 1939, in accordance with the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, Mauricy Weis was able to return to the university, and graduated in 1940. In March 1941, he was hired as a researcher in the Lviv Regional Archives, and in June 1941, following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, was evacuated to Kharkiv. After working as an archivist in several cities, he arrived in Tashkent, and was appointed as a researcher at the Tashkent Regional Archives in 1942. Since 1943 he was a senior research fellow at the Archives Department of the NKVD in the Uzbekistan, and was appointed as deputy head of the department in 1959. He held this position while the department was reorganized, and retired in 1985. Mauricy Weis was editor and compiler of many collections of documents: "Victory of the October Revolution in Uzbekistan", "General Stoletov's Mission to Afghanistan", "Grabowski - the Inventor of Telephoto", etc. In 1996 Mauricy Weis moved to Israel. He died in 1998.
Ownership history Part of the collection's documents relating to the history of the Jews of Uzbekistan are copies of the records from The Central State Archives of Uzbekistan (Tashkent). The papers were transferred to The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Jerusalem in 2002.
Language Note Russian, Yiddish
National Library system number 990043212540205171
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