Records of the Moscow State Jewish Theatre (GOSET) (Fond 2307 and Fond 2308)

Identifier
irn517539
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.405
  • RG-22.011M
Dates
1 Jan 1919 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Russian
  • Yiddish
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Ukrainian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517539

Extent and Medium

70 microfilm reels, 35 mm

Archival History

Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv literatury i iskusstva

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 Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv literatury i iskusstva). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Sep. 2005.

Scope and Content

Contains records related to the history of the Soviet culture and theater, Jewish theater, Jewish avant-garde art and the Kremlin's policy toward Jewish society and culture from 1919 until the early 1950s. The collection contains correspondence with ministries, state organizations, authors, administration, plays, notes (with comments of censors) and the personal archives of Aleksey Granovskiy, Solomon Mikhoels, and other actors and writers. Also contains press reports from the Soviet and foreign periodicals about the theater and its tours in Europe, posters, drawings, theater programs and documents about other Jewish theaters.

System of Arrangement

Organized in the following order: Reel 1: Finding aid for two collections: Fond 2307. Records of the Moscow State Jewish Theatre ( GOSET), and Fond 2308. Records of Moscow State Jewish Theater School (MGETU); Reel 2-70: Records of the Fond 2307 ( GOSET) Arrangement is thematic

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv literatury i iskusstva

People

  • Granovskiy, Aleksey.
  • Mikhoėls, Solomon Mikhaĭlovich, 1890-1948.

Subjects

  • Theater--Russia.
  • Theater, Yiddish--Russia (Federation)--Moscow--History--20th century.
  • Jewish theater--History.
  • Jewish theater--Russia.

Genre

  • Document
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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