Archive and manuscripts collection of the Cabinet of Jewish culture at the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR

Available are: collection of manuscripts; documents and materials of the folklore department: a collection of Jewish folk songs, stories, proverbs and sayings, aphorisms, jokes; Soviet Jewish antireligious folklore; clippings from periodicals with publications about Jewish folk art, and archives; protocols of work meetings; lists of Cabinet staff; materials on the work of the Department for collecting materials about the Great Patriotic War (1947); materials for the collection "Jewish folk art of the days of the Great Patriotic War" (1948-1949); testimonies of Jewish population under German and Romanian occupation for the "Black Book", etc. The files listed below relate to the Holocaust: File 158. Roitman Frima Davidovna. Folk poetess and composer. Autobiography. Note on the work of Roitman and on the work of the Department of Folklore of the Jewish Culture's Cabinet of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR in collecting material about the Patriotic War. 1947, Kiev, 9 p. File 181. A collection of songs and proverbs collected by A. Kagan in different places. Songs about Stalin, about Hitler, about partisans, about the Mogilev ghetto. Proverbs (guerrilla, anti-fascist ones). 1948, Kiev, 9 p. File 204. Jewish folk songs about the war, concentration camps and ghettos. Recorded: N. Zabara from the words of Jewish prisoners in Berlin. 1945-1946. Berlin - Kamyanets-Podolsk. 15 p. File 206. Jewish folk songs (compilation made in Korostyshev). Records of songs sent by different people and different authors. Songs registration notebook. Themes of the songs: about the Nazi camps, about life in emigration, about love, etc. 64 p. + notebook 8 p. File 219. Stories of Jews who survived the horrors of the fascist occupation (western regions of Ukraine) and concentration camps. The authors are Friedman, Zlochever, Schneider, Briman, Weininger, Kurzberg (1944, Chernivtsi). Autographs in Yiddish. 56 p. File 321. Materials for the collection "Jewish folk art of the days of the Great Patriotic War". Abstract and draft material. 1948-1949, Kiev. 14 p. File 322. Jewish art of the days of the Great Patriotic War (collection of the Folklore Department of the Cabinet of Jewish culture of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR). Review, introduction and draft materials. 1949, Kiev, 93 p. File 325. A card file of information about the Jewish population in different cities. 1947. Handwritten in Russian and Yiddish. 19 p. File 337. Kligman Rachel Markovna. The living conditions of the Jewish population in Zvenigorodka, occupied by the Germans in July 29, 1941 - January 28, 1944. Zvenigorodka, Kiev region. 11 p. File 338. Kligman Rachel Markovna. My life during the war. Notes. August 1, 1945, Kiev. 5 p. File 339. Lemen Khan. Living conditions during the occupation. June 1941 - January 1944. Recorded by Lyuba Krasilovskaya. 6 p. The Cabinet of Jewish Culture at the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (Department of Jewish Literature, Language and Folklore) was founded in 1936 on the basis of the Department of Ethnography and Folklore of the Jewish Culture Institute (first name - Institute of Jewish Proletarian Culture, Kyiv, 1928-1936). Acted until 1950. From 1928 to 1936, it functioned as a part of the Institute of Jewish Proletarian Culture as the Cabinet of Music Folklore. The task of the Cabinet was to collect and work on Jewish folk music and ethnography. In 1945, with the beginning of the collection materials for the Black Book, a special commission was set up under the Cabinet, which collected and produced a number of materials. In connection with the case of the Jewish Antifascist Committee (1948), most of the employees were repressed, and the Cabinet itself was liquidated in January 1949. The police bodies seized part of the documents and work of the Cabinet staff, and the remaining ones were transferred to the Library, apparently without catalogues and acts. After 1950, the materials of the Jewish Literature Department and documents related to Jewish history and culture were removed from the Department of Manuscripts and transferred to special storage, and later to the Library's exchange-reserve funds department. In 1990, a special unit was restored in the structure of the Library, which now functions as the Department of the Jewish collections at the Institute of Manuscripts.