Sara Karcewicz

Title: Sara Karcewicz

Inclusive Dates: 1925-1929

ID: RG 1922

Sara Karcewicz (also known as Sonia Kartzevitz; married name Rubinroit) was born in Berdichev, Ukraine on January 12, 1912. Her family fled to Wysokie Litewskie, Poland, during or shortly after World War I. As a girl, she attended Wysokie Litewskie's TSYSHO (Tsentrale Yidishe Shul Organizatsye) school, which was part of a network of secular Yiddish schools. There, her studies were conducted in Yiddish and in Polish. The subject matter taught at her school included anatomy, general history, geography, geometry, Jewish history, literature, nature, and other areas of study. She immigrated to the United States in 1929, married in 1934, and had two sons. In the United States, she worked as a bookkeeper for her husband in his business ventures. She died in New York on February 12, 2003.

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Children
Education
Educational materials
Everyday Life
Jewish learning and scholarship
Jewish schools
Literature
Novellas
Poland
Polish literature
Scholarship
School certificates
TSYSHO (Tsentrale Yidishe Shul Organizatsye), Vilna
Wysokie Litewskie
Yiddish Language and Linguistics
Yiddish secular movement
Yiddish secular schools

Languages of Materials

Polish
Yiddish

Administrative Information

Acquired: 11/25/2009.

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Acquisition Note: Mark Rubinroit; Acc. 32/09

Collection Material Type: Personal Papers

Description: The collection relates to Sonia Karcewicz's education at the TSYSHO (Tsentrale Yidishe Shul Organizatsye) school in Wysokie Litewski, Poland. The majority of the materials date back to 1927. Includes over 20 school notebooks written in Polish and in Yiddish with notes pertaining to algebra, anatomy, geography, geometry, grammar, history, Jewish history, nature, Polish poetry, and related subject matter. Also includes card cut-outs, a Polish-Yiddish school certificate, and novellas of Polish literary works published in 1925, 1928.