Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Date
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inclusive:
1919-1950
- 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.
Physical Details
- Extent
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70 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
- 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
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
- Fair use only.
- Copyright Holder
- Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv literatury i iskusstva
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv literatury i iskusstva
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- 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.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-05-24 12:31:07
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