Overview
- Description
- Contains letters to Meer Bomash from Russian State Duma members, civil servants, publishers, students, intelligentsia, and ordinary citizens about the establishment of Jewish educational institutions, antisemitism, compulsory military service, and the general conditions of the Jewish community of Łódź. Also included are requests for help in gaining acceptance to educational institutions, for aid obtaining transfers to different government posts or schools, for material and financial assistance on behalf of aid societies, and for the commutation of prison sentences. There are also reports, petitions, rules, directives, agreements, and other Duma-related documents on Jewish issues such as army service, war refugees, and resettlement in Palestine.
- Date
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inclusive:
1908-1917
- Credit Line
- 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.
- Collection Creator
- Meer Bomash
Physical Details
- Extent
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7,284 digital images : JPEG ; 4.79 GB.
7 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- No copies or publication for third parties without permission of the source archive
- Copyright Holder
- Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii
Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Łódź (Poland)
- Personal Name
- Bomash, Meer.
- Corporate Name
- Russia. State Duma
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the State Archives of the State Archives of the Russian Federation (Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii, GARF), Fond 9458, 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.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-23 10:22:50
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