ORT Vocational School (Vilna). Records.

Title: ORT Vocational School, Vilna

Inclusive Dates: 1921-1939

ID: RG 21

Extent Information

2'8.5"; 6 5"lgl; 1 2.5"lgl; 3 map folders

Arrangement

Organization: Boxes 1-6 are arranged in folder numerical sequence

Arrangement: The collection is arranged in 4 series: I) Administration (folders 1-16A); II) Corres. - Outgoing (17-22); III) Corres. - Incoming (23-57); IV) Students, Teachers & Curriculum (58-98)

Biographical/Historical

The ORT Vocational School in Vilna, also called the Technicum, was founded in 1921 to train young people in the fields of mechanics and electrical maintenance. The school was subsidized by ORT, the Vilna Kehillah and the Vilna municipality. For the first three years the director was Israel Okun. From 1924 until the closing of the school in 1934, the directorship was assumed by Matityahu Schreiber. The school had a technical library and published its own textbooks in Yiddish.

Creators

ORT Vocational School (Vilna)

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EDUCATION_
ORT Vocational School (Vilna)
Vocational Schools

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Documents - Records

Administrative Information

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Other Note

Inventory: Yiddish, 6 pp., ms

Description: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, financial records, lists, relating to the activities of the school. Budgets, 1922, 1924-1940. Lists of members of the administration and executive board. Articles and leaflets on the history, organization and goals of the Technicum. General reports, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1932-1933. Correspondence with: ORT Central Committee in Warsaw, 1920s-1930s; ORT Vilna, 1923, 1928-1930, 1937-1939; Ministry of Education, Warsaw, 1922, 1923, 1928-1939; Board of Education, Vilna District, 1920s-1930s; Executive Board of TSYSHO (Central Yiddish School Organization), Warsaw. Materials on teachers, students and curricula. Teachers' applications, teachers' registration cards. Classroom roll-books, teachers' personal documents, student registration cards, student health records, students' personal documents. Lists of students, graduation diplomas, curricula for general and vocational subjects, teacher assignments, student papers, materials on exams.

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