Mizrakh Yidisher Historisher Arkhiv

Title: Mizrakh Yidisher Historisher Arkhiv

Inclusive Dates: 1802-1924

ID: RG 80

Extent Information

33'9" + 1'8" (photos); 81 5"lgl + 4 5" ltr (photos)

Arrangement

This collection is indexed and arranged as a portion of the Tcherikower Archive, which includes RG 80 through RG 89. The pages in the Tcherikower Archive inventory which correspond to this collection are as follows: 1-123; 252-271; 353-355; 380-384. The folders which constitue this collection are the following numbers: 1-140; 146-753; 1044-1121; 2046-2069; 2416-2448

Creators

Mizrakh Yidisher Historisher Arkhiv

Administrative/Biographical History

German name: Ostjudisches Historisches Archiv (Archives for the History of Eastern European Jews). In 1919 a group of Jewish activists and representatives of Jewish organizations established a committee in Kiev to collect and publish historical and documentary materials relating to the anti-Jewish pogroms in the Ukraine, 1918-1920. The committee was called the Redaktsions Kolegiye Oyf Zamlen Un Oysforshn Di Materialn Vegn Di Pogromen In Ukraine (Editorial Committee for Collection and Investigation of Materials Relating to the Pogroms in the Ukraine). The founding organizations were the Jewish National Secretariat, The Central Committee of Kiev to Aid Pogrom Victims and the Folksfarlag (People's Press). The head of the Editorial Committee was Nahum Shtif and its secretary was Elias Tcherikower. A great deal of original material was collected. These included testimonies, photographs, clippings, and original documents. In 1921 the collection was transferred to Berlin where a new organization, the Mizrakh Yidisher Historisher Arkhiv (Ostjudisches Historisches Archiv), was founded to assume custody of these records. In 1925 the MYHA merged with the YIVO Institute in Vilna. The MYHA records which are now at the YIVO Archives are only a fraction of the original archive. The larger part was sent from Berlin to Vilna and was destroyed in Vilna during the Holocaust period.

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Documents - Records

Finding Aid Information

Inventory: Tcherikower Archive, Yiddish, ms.,pages 1-123, 252-271, 353-355, 380-384 (folders 1-620, 651-753). Photo archives (folders 621-650)

Administrative Information

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Other Formats: MK 470

Description:

Note to researchers: This collection is currently closed in preparation for the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections Project.

The record group is comprised of: administrative records of the MYHA and of its predecessor organization, the Editorial Committee in Kiev; documents relating primarily to the pogroms in the Ukraine; documents on the period of Jewish autonomy in the Ukraine, 1918-1920; miscellaneous historical documents on Russian Jewry. Pogrom materials include files on the effects of the pogroms on the Jewish communities. Eyewitness accounts arranged by locality. Lists of pogrom victims. Statistics on relief work in the Ukraine. Elias Tcherikower's notes about the pogroms. Photographs of victims, destruction. JDC materials about Ukrainian pogroms. Minutes of meetings of the Jewish National Council, Kiev, 1917-1918. Minutes of meetings of the Jewish National Assembly in the Ukraine, 1918. Material relating to various departments of the Jewish Ministry. Records of Jewish organizations. Minutes, memoranda, bulletins and other materials of the following: United Zionist Labor Movement in Russia; Relief Commission for Jewish Writers and Artists in Carlsbad; Committee of Jewish Delegations in Paris; Bund; Poalei Zion. Petitions to the Tsar about Jewish matters, 1860-1892. Jewish protests against antisemitic theatrical performances by Russian groups, 1864. Correspondence between the Prime Minister Stolypin and Nicholas II, ca. 1910. Material about the Kishinev pogroms and the Beilis trial. Secret police report from Cherkassy District about a conference of the Zionist-Socialist Party, 1911. Clippings regarding the Jewish Legion, 1915. Materials about the trial of the Zeirei Zion, (Zionist Youth) in Kiev, 1922. Materials relating to the Schwarzbard trial. Clippings relating to the following topics: nationalist and political groups in the Ukraine, 1919-1920; professional organizations, 1919; international political situation, 1919; Red Cross and government relief programs in the period following the progroms; Jews in Galicia, Lithuania, Germany, Amsterdam, Palestine, Poland, 1918-1919. Diary of the Editorial Committee regarding investigations of the pogroms (kept daily by Tcherikower), 1919. Minute-books of the Editorial Committee. Accounting records. Correspondence of the Editorial Committee and the MYHA, 1919-1924, with individuals, organizations, publishing houses, including: Shalom Asch, G.E. Gurevitch, Pinchas Dubinsky, Simon Dubnow, David Mowshowitch, OSE (Berlin), JDC.