Personal Archives of Sofia R. Kotsyna (1873-1940), Jewish librarian, archivist and historian

Identifier
irn37313
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2009.90
  • RG-22.019M
Dates
1 Jan 1888 - 31 Dec 1937
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Russian
  • Yiddish
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn37313

Extent and Medium

3,983 digital images, JPEG

4 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Creator(s)

  • Sofia R. Kotsyna
  • Sergei V. Mironenko

Biographical History

Sofia Rafailovna Kotsyna was born in 1873 in Białystok,Poland and died after 1940. She was a librarian, historian, and archivist. Throughout her career she was an active and leading figure in a number of societies supporting Jewish education and the study of Jewish history, literature and language in Russia, and collected and inventoried the personal archives of a number of Russian Jewish figures in science, culture, and social life.

Archival History

Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the State Archives of the Russian Federation (Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii, GARF) Fond 9535, Opis 1. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from GARF via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archival Programs in June 2009.

Scope and Content

Contains Sofia R. Kotsyna’s lectures on elementary and post-elementary education, the library work of Jewish societies, the Second Congress of Archive Workers, and the works and archives of the Jewish historian P.S. Marek. Also included are letters from Jewish figures including A.M. Bergengeim, L.E. Motylev, and S.M. Ginzburg; and indexes to the collections of P.S. Marek, S.S. Vermel’, S.A. Rapoport, and O.B. Gavronsky. Of special interest are reports on the work of the Society for Promotion of Jewish Education from 1903 to 1917; library courses at Shaniaavskii University; and rules, accounts, resolutions, appeals, and other documents of Jewish organizations. The collection also reproduces newspaper clippings, invitations, posters, and programs reflecting the cultural and scientific life of Moscow from the 1900s to the 1920s.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii

People

  • Kotsyna, Sofia Rafailovna, 1873-1940.
  • Vermelʹ, S.
  • Rapoport, S.A.
  • Motylev, L.E.
  • Marek, P. S. (Petr Semenovich), 1862-
  • Gavronsky, O.B.
  • Ginzburg, S. M. (Saul Moiseevich), 1866-1940.
  • Bergengeim, A.M.

Subjects

  • Odesa (Ukraine)
  • Russia--Intellectual life--20th century.
  • Jews--Intellectual life--Russia (Federation)--Politics and government.
  • Moscow (Russia)

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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