ORT in Russia - Under the Tsars and Under the Soviets
WO/7/4/2/1
Dates: 1880-1976.
Level: Sub-Series
Extent: 82 folders
| Archive Ref | Title/ description |
| WO/7/4/2/1/1 | Evreiskii Mir, New York, 1944 [Russian]. Description: Evreiskii Mir, New York, 1944 [Russian]. Published by the Union of Russian Jews, New York, 1944. Dedicated to Leon Bramson. Date: 1944. Location: 249. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/2 | Press clippings (copies) [Russian]. Description: Press clippings (copies) [Russian]: Rassvet, 12 April 1909 [Russian]. Date: 12 April 1909. Location:249. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/3 | Press clippings (copies) [Russian, Hebrew]. Description: Press clippings (copies) [Russian, Hebrew]: Ruskii Evreii, 2 September 1880 [Russian]; Rassvet, 3 July 1880 [Russian]; Hamelitz, 2 December 1880 [Hebrew, Russian]. Date: July-December 1880. Location: 249. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/3A | Report of the Provisional Committee for 1904 [Russian]. Description: Report of the Provisional Committee for 1904 [Russian]. Published in St Petersburg, 1905. Date: 1905. Location: 248. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/4 | [formerly RG/2/7/13] Translation from Russian into English of the first letter announcing the establishment of a Jewish charitable fund and an appeal for donations by the Provisional Committee, St Petersburg, April 10, 1880. Translation from Russian into English of the first letter announcing the establishment of a Jewish charitable fund and an appeal for donations by the Provisional Committee, St Petersburg, April 10, 1880. This is often referred to as the 'Founding Document'. Date: 10 April 1880. Location: 248. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/5 | Biographical material on Nikolaii Bakst [Russian]. Date: 1916. Location: 248. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/6 | Obituaries for N. Vesoler, Z. Brunin, David Feinberg, M. Posner, L. Vendrov and G. Lurie [Russian]. Location: 250. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/7 | Material on the ORT school in Dvinsk [Russian, Yiddish]. Description: Date: 1906-1927. Location: 250. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/8 | Letter from Dr J Frumkin to S Goldmann re Bramson [Russian]. Description: Date: 1 May 1961. Location: 253. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/9 | Jewish Poverty in Odessa - Khizhki Voskhod'a, May 1901, St Petersburg [Russian]. Date: May1901. Location: 255. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/10 | Minutes of the Provisional Committee from 4 November 1880 to 1 August 1882 [Russian]. Date: 1882. Location: 248. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/11 | Minutes of the Provisional Committee from 1 August 1882 to 1 August 1884 [Russian]. Date: 1884. Location: 248. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/12 | Minutes of the Provisional Committee from 1 August 1884 to 1 September 1889 [Russian]. Description: Minutes of the meetings of the Provisional Committee for the Establishment of the Society for Handicrafts and Agricultural Work among the Jews in Russia, on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the reign of Tsar Alexandr II. The minutes cover the period from August 1, 1884 up to September 1, 1889. [Russian]. Date: 1889. Location: 248. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/13 | [formerly RG/2/7/19] List of Donations for the establishment of ORT. Description: List of Donations for the establishment of ORT. Covers the period November 1880 to October 1, 1884, as well as the repeated annual contributions 1880-1883. Date: 1884. Location: 249. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/14 | [formerly RG/2/7/20] List of Donations for the establishment of ORT. Description: List of Donations for the establishment of ORT. Covers the period May 1, 1890 up to May 1, 1900. Date: 1900. Location: 249. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/15 | [formerly RG/2/7/18] Ustav ORT. The By-Laws of ORT, registered in St Petersburg, September 5, 1906. Alt Ref: d06f056. Date: 1906. Location: 249. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/16 | [formerly RG/2/7/4] ORT Report for 1907 [Russian]. Alt Ref: d06f051. Description: ORT Report for 1907. The volume contains an important short essay on the origins of ORT in Russia. [Russian]. Date: 1908. Location: 248. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/17 | [formerly RG/2/7/5] ORT Report for 1908 [Russian]. Date: 1909. Location: 248. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/18 | [formerly RG/2/7/6] ORT Report for 1909 [Russian]. Description: ORT Report for 1909. Contains important material on Prof. Bakst. [Russian]. Date: 1910. Location: 248. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/19 | [formerly RG/2/7/7] ORT Report for 1911 [Russian]. Date: 1912. Location: 248. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/20 | [formerly RG/2/7/8] ORT Report for 1912 [Russian]. Date: 1913. Location: 248. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/21 | [formerly RG/2/7/9] ORT Report for 1913 [Russian]. Description: ORT Report for 1913. Contains a reference to the possible sending of an ORT representative to the United States of America for the purpose of organizing support for ORT activities in Russia. [Russian]. Date: 1914. Location: 248. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/22 | [formerly RG/2/7/10] ORT Report for 1914 [Russian]. Description: ORT Report for 1914. Contains material on ORT and World War I. [Russian]. Date: 1915. Location: 248. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/23 | [formerly RG/2/7/11] ORT Report for 1915 [Russian]. Description: ORT Report for 1915. Contains a reference on contributions from abroad (USA and England). [Russian]. Date: 1916. Location: 248. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/24 | [formerly RG/2/7/21] Report of the Jewish Vocational School of Vilna [Vilnius], 1909-1910 [Russian]. Date: 1910. Location: 249. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/25 | [formerly RG/2/7/22] Copies of Russian publication: Vestnik Trudovoi Pomoshchi, Petrograd, 1916 [Russian]. Description: Copies of Russian publication: Vestnik Trudovoi Pomoshchi, Petrograd, no. 2, 3-4, 5 and 10, January-February, March-April, November-October, 1916. [Russian]. Date: 1916. Location: 249. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/26 | [formerly RG/2/7/23] Copy of newspaper clipping from Evreiiskaia Nedelia [The Jewish Week] , #8, February 19, 1917 [Russian]. Description: Copy of newspaper clipping from Evreiiskaia Nedelia [The Jewish Week] , #8, February 19, 1917. An editorial devoted to ORT. [Russian]. Date: 19 February 1917. Location: 250. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/27 | [formerly RG/2/7/24] Material from the papers of Dr. L. Bramson on the 1917 Decree of the Russian Provisional Government on the emancipation of the Jews of Russia. [Russian, German, Yiddish]. Date: 1917. Location: 250. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/28 | [formerly RG/2/7/25] Society for Handicraft and Agriculture Among the Jews in Russia (ORT) - 1880-1920 - publicity pamphlet [Russian]. Date: 1921. Location: 250. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/29 | [formerly RG/2/7/39] Material on the ORT Labor Bureaus during World War I [Russian]. Location: 250. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/30 | [formerly RG/2/7/28] Copy of a certificate issued to a Jewish artisan authorising him to practice his profession, 1907. Description: Copy of a certificate issued to a Jewish artisan from Rostov by the local bureau for artisans, authorising him to practice his trade as a mechanic, March 30, 1907. Date: 1907. Location: 250. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/31 | [formerly RG/2/7/38] Material on the situation in the Jewish colonies during the first revolutionary years, 1917, 1918, 1919 [Russian]. Date: 1917-1919. Location: 250. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/32 | [formerly RG/2/7/46] Evreiiskii Krestianin - a periodical published by OZET - #1, 1925; #2, 1926 [Russian]. Date: 1925-1926. Location: 251. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/33 | [formerly RG/2/7/48] Various statistics published by ORT Moscow. Covers the Jewish population of USSR [Russian]. Mostly 1930. Date: 1927-1941. Location: 251. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/34 | [formerly RG/2/7/49] Various statistical material prepared by KOMZET, 1931 [Russian]. Date: 1931. Location: 251. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/35 | [formerly RG/2/7/50] Copies of documents relating to ORT in the USSR [Russian, Yiddish]. Copies of documents relating to ORT in the USSR [Russian, Yiddish]: (1)1928 Agreement between ORT and USSR. (2) Special permit issued by the Commissariat of Foreign and Interior Trade of the USSR to Soviet ORT in 1927. Date: 1927-1928. Location: 251. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/36 | [formerly RG/2/7/51] Reports of the Soviet ORT from 1926 to 1930 and 1931 to 1932 [Yiddish]. Date: 1926-1932. Location: 251. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/37 | [formerly RG/2/7/52] Report on the Activities of ORT in Russia for 1934 [Russian]. Description: Date: c.1935. Location: 252. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/38 | [formerly RG/2/7/53] Excerpts from an OZET publication, Tribuna Evreiiskoii Sovietskoii Obshchestvennosti, 1928 [Russian]. Date: 1928. Location: 252. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/39 | [formerly RG/2/7/55] ORT - article reprinted from EMES, dated 6,7,8 July 1923 [Yiddish]. Date: 6-8 July 1923. Location: 252. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/40 | [formerly RG/2/7/58] By-Laws of OZET with a list of its former membership [Russian]. Description: Date: 1922?. Location: 252. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/41 | [formerly RG/2/7/59] Newspaper excerpt from In the Jewish World, February 5, 1928 [Yiddish]. Description: Newspaper excerpt from In the Jewish World, February 5, 1928 [Yiddish]. Contains an attack on ORT in connection with the ORT agreement with the Soviet Union. Date: 5 February 1928. Location: 252. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/42 | [formerly RG/2/7/36] A Resolution of the First Regional Conference of Jewish Colonies in the region of Kherson and Ekaterinoslav [Russian]. Date: c.1917. Location: 250. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/43 | [formerly RG/2/7/41] Minutes of the Central Committee of ORT Berlin covering 1923. Incomplete. [Russian, Yiddish]. Description: Minutes of the Central Committee of ORT Berlin covering 1923. Incomplete. Includes ratification of the agreement with Soviet ORT involving a monthly subsidy of $5,000, up to March 1, 1924. [Russian, Yiddish]. Date: 1923-1924. Location: 250. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/44 | [formerly RG/2/7/56] ORT Programmes for Adults - draft of a survey (part of a larger report) [Russian]. Date: early 1920s. Location: 252. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/45 | [formerly RG/2/7/134] Hand-written list of some of the ORT executives in Russia. Description: Location: 257. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/46 | [formerly RG/2/7/136] Soviet ORT - before liquidation - Letter by Mr. A. Pukkovitsky, 1976 [Russian]. Alt Ref: d06f058. Date: 26 November 1976. Location: 257. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/47 | [formerly RG/2/7/142] Jewish Farm Settlements in Soviet Russia - Excerpt from American Jewish Year Book, 1938-39. Date: 1938-1939. Location: 257. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/48 | [formerly RG/2/7/176] Letter from ICA in Moscow to ORT Berlin, May 14, 1925 [Russian]. Alt Ref: d10a022. Date: 14 May 1925. Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/49 | [formerly RG/2/7/177] Letter re help to the agricultural settlers in the Minsk region, 1925 (?) [Russian]. Date: 1925? Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/50 | [formerly RG/2/7/178] Report on the agricultural actions of ORT in USSR for 1930, presented to KOMZET [Russian]. Date: 1930. Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/51 | [formerly RG/2/7/179] Decision of the Council of Commissars of Ukraine, USSR, of November 1930, about the participation of Jewish poor in agricultural collectives [Russian]. Date: 19 November 1930. Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/52 | [formerly RG/2/7/180] Various models of agreements between ORT and ORT-supported workshops and factories, 1930 [Russian]. Date: 1930. Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/53 | [formerly RG/2/7/181] Russian ORT Activities in 1929 [Russian]. Date: 1929. Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/54 | [formerly RG/2/7/182] ORT meeting regarding help to relatives, dated 11 July 1928 [Russian]. Date: 11 July 1928. Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/55 | [formerly RG/2/7/183] Minutes of the Statistical Economic Committee of the Soviet ORT, dated May 8, 1928 [Russian]. Date: 8 May 1928. Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/56 | [formerly RG/2/7/184] Bulletin #1 (Soviet ORT), 1928 - material on Jewish demography and economic situation, based on 1926 census [Russian]. Date: 1928. Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/57 | [formerly RG/2/7/185] A short plan of the activities of the Statistical and Economic Committee of the Soviet ORT [Russian]. Date: 1920s? Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/58 | [formerly RG/2/7/186] Copy of a letter of the ORT representative, A. B. Weinstein, from Odessa, dated October 16, 1928 [Russian]. Date: 16 October 1928. Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/59 | [formerly RG/2/7/187] Die Neue Juedische Kolonisation in Sowjetrussland [The new Jewish colonization in the Soviet Union] - a report by Dr A. Syngalowski, February 1927 [German]. Date: 1 February 1927. Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/60 | [formerly RG/2/7/188] A plan for agricultural work by ORT in the Kiev region for 1927 [Russian]. Date: 1927. Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/61 | [formerly RG/2/7/189] A Report for 1926, presented by KOMZET to the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of USSR [Russian]. Date: 15 March 1927. Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/62 | [formerly RG/2/7/190] Activities of OZET, 1920s [Russian]. Date: c.1925-1926. Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/63 | [formerly RG/2/7/191] Various material re vocational schools in the Soviet Union, 1926 [Russian]. Date: 1926. Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/64 | [formerly RG/2/7/192] Project of a short-term school in Kremenchug, 1926 [Russian]. Date: 1926. Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/65 | [formerly RG/2/7/193] Material on vocational schools in the USSR in 1925 [Russian]. Date: 1925. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/66 | [formerly RG/2/7/194] ORT - USSR Agreement made in 1925 and local contracts in the USSR 1925-1931 [Russian, English]. Alt Ref: d06f001; d06f002; d06f003; d06f004; d06f005; d06f006; d06f007; d06f008; d06f009; d06f010; d06f011; d06f012; d06f013; d06f014; d06f015; d06f016; d06f017; d06f018; d06f019; d06f020; d06f021; d06f022; d06f023; d06f024; d06f025; d06f026; d06f027; d06f028; d06f029; d06f030; d06f031; d06f032; d06f033; d06f034; d06f035; d06f036; d06f037; d06f038; d06f039; d06f040; d06f041; d06f042; d06f043; d06f044; d06f045; d06f046; d06f047; d06f048. Date: 1925-1931. Location: 259. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/67 | [formerly RG/2/7/195] Document relating to Jewish land settlement in USSR, 1926 [Russian]. Date: 1926. Location: 260. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/68 | [formerly RG/2/7/196] About Jewish Land Settlement in Crimea by Lubarskii, 1924 [Russian]. Description: About Jewish Land Settlement in Crimea by Lubarskii, 1924. [Russian]. Contains important data on the initial steps. Date: 1924. Location: 260. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/69 | [formerly RG/2/7/197] Preliminary project of organization of the Jewish land settlements in Crimea, prepared by Dr. Fabrikant,1924 [Russian]. Date: 1924. Location: 260. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/70 | [formerly RG/2/7/200] ORT in Odessa, ORT in Besarabia by E. Berstein, 1955 [Russian]. Date: 1955. Location: 260. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/71 | [formerly RG/2/7/201] Memorandum re the question of settlement of foreign Jews in Birobidzhan and other areas of Russia, 1930s [Russian]. Date: 1930s. Location: 260. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/72 | [formerly RG/2/7/219] Liquidation of ORT in USSR, 1938 [Russian, French, English]. Description: Liquidation of ORT in USSR, 1938 [Russian, French, English]. Material related to the last period of ORT activities in the Soviet Union, including financial data. Date: 1938. Location: 261. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/73 | [formerly RG/2/7/230] Letter from Soviet ORT, dated March 15, 1929 [Russian]. Date: 15 March 1929. Location: 261. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/74 | [formerly RG/2/7/237] Excerpts from Vestnik Trudovoi Pomoshchi Sredi Evreev [Messenger of Labor Help Among the Jews], No.3-4, 1916. Date: 1916. Location: 262. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/75 | [formerly RG/2/7/238] Documents re agricultural work in the USSR, 1921-1931 [Yiddish]. Date: 1921-1931. Location: 262. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/76 | [formerly RG/2/7/239] ORT work USSR, 1923-26 [French]. Date: 1923-1926. Location: 262. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/77 | [formerly RG/2/7/240] Five Years of ORT work in USSR, 1926-1931, JTA Moscow Report, November 7, 1931[Yiddish]. Date: 7 November 1931. Location: 262. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/78 | [formerly RG/2/7/243] Letter from Lvovitch regarding reports with OZET, November 1930 [Russian]. Date: November 1930. Location: 262. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/79 | [formerly RG/2/7/254] Soviet ORT - Report of activities 1926-1928. Date: 1926-1928. Location: 262. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/80 | [formerly RG/2/7/287] Excerpts of the letter of April 10, 1880 sent to the Jewish communities of Russia [Russian]. Description: Excerpts of the letter of April 10, 1880 sent to the Jewish communities of Russia [Russian]. This letter is considered to be the first formal communication issued by the Society. Excerpted from the report for 1907. Date: 1975-1980. Location: 254. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/81 | [formerly RG/2/7/288] Print of map of the Pale of Jewish Settlement in Russia. Description: Print of map of the Pale of Jewish Settlement in Russia. Source: The Persecution of the Jews in Russia, Philadelphia Jewish Publication Society of America, 1897. Location: 254. |
| WO/7/4/2/1/82 | [formerly RG/2/7/309] Approved rules of the Temporary Committee, 1880 [Russian]. Date: 1880. Location: 265. |