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Попеч-во культурного самоуправления евр. меньшинства ЭНР в Тарту

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Tartu was the second largest city in the Republic of Estonia (established in 1918) and an important educational and cultural center. The Jewish community in the city was founded mainly by retired soldiers from the Russian army of Nicholas I. In 1922 the Jewish community numbered 1,115 people, and 920 in 1934. In 1926, following the establishment of the Jewish cultural autonomy in Estonia, the local institutions of self-government in Tartu were headed by a local Jewish Curatorium (board of trustees). The collection contains copies of materials of the Curatorium that cover various Jewish communal activities between 1927 and 1940. It includes: protocols of the Curatorium’s meetings and lists of its members; the Curatorium’s correspondence with Jewish and with governmental institutions; records on elections to the Curatorium; materials referring to Jewish educational institutions in Tartu; financial documents; and personal data on the Jewish residents of Tartu --

Reference Code
ERA-Tallinn-2273
Original Reference Code
ERA, Tallinn;2273;number in the archives of origin
Dates
1927-1940
Consists of
20 files.
Languages
Russian; est; Yiddish;
Description
The collection contains materials on the Curatorium's various activities, including protocols of its meetings and lists of its members; data on elections to the Curatorium, lists of voters and candidates; applications for enrollment in cultural self-government; correspondence with Jewish organizations (predominantly with the Self-Government organizations in Tallinn) and with governmental institutions including the Ministry of Education and the Statistical Bureau of Estonia. The files also include financial data: lists of income and expenditure, monetary reports and other documents. Several files refer to Jewish educational institutions in Tartu – the local Jewish school and kindergarten – including correspondence on financial, educational and organizational matters. Other files contain lists of the Curatorium's members and lists and personal data on the Jewish residents of Tartu, including records of a census held in 1940.
Title Попеч-во культурного самоуправления евр. меньшинства ЭНР в Тарту.
Notes The archive includes copies of materials from the collection of the Curatorium of the Jewish Cultural Self Government in Tartu from the The National Archives in Tallinn (ERA).
Host Item The National Archives in Tallinn (ERA) (Copied material)
Level of Description Sub-Fonds Record
Biographical summary Jewish cultural autonomy in Estonia was established in 1926, according to the Cultural Autonomy Act, which passed in the Estonian parliament in 1925. Even though the central Jewish Cultural Committee (the Kultur-Rat) was located in Tallinn, Tartu maintained local institutions of self-government headed by a local Curatorium analogous to other Jewish communities of Estonia. The Curatorium supervised various local community activities, most importantly the Jewish educational system. After Soviet occupation in 1940, the institutions of Jewish autonomy in Tartu were dissolved, sharing the fate of the system of Jewish cultural self-government in Estonia as a whole.
Language Note Russian
Estonian
Yiddish
National Library system number 990050683950205171
Links Collection description in Yerusha Project
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