Records of the Sofia M. Gurevitch Gymansium, Vilna 1905-1922, 1930's

This collection contains the most significant internal records of the Sofia M. Gurevitch gymnasium’s early years, including the official documents giving permission for the founding and expansion of the school. There are also pedagogical materials, including student work and lesson plans, dating primarily from the later period of the school’s existence. These materials illustrate a Jewish school’s relationship with the Russian government before WWI, and the transformation of its pedagogy, as it shifted focus to become a Yiddish-language secular school in the 1930s.Secular Yiddish high school founded in Vilna in 1906 by S.M. Gurevitch and P.P. Antokolski. From 1906 to 1915 it functioned as a Jewish high school with Russian as the language of instruction. In 1918 the school adopted a Yiddishist secular approach and was known for its high scholastic standards and progressive methods.Part of the pre-World War II collections of the YIVO Institute in Vilnius, Lithuania. Included in the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections