Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society

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JEWISH HISTORICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, a scientific society for studying the history and ethnography of Russian Jews. It was founded in 1908 on the initiative of historian S. M. Dubnov on the basis of the Historical and Ethnographic Committee established in 1892 as a part of the Educational Society for Russian Jews. M. M. Vinaver was the first chairman of the society with S. A. Rappoport and L. Y. Sternberg, among others, taking an active part in its activities. The society published the magazine, Evreyskaya Starina, in 1908-30 and arranged an expedition to regions where Jews had settled down in 1911-14. The materials it collected formed the basis of the Museum of the Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society opened at 50 Fifth Line of Vasilievsky Island in 1916. After October 1917, the society published a collection of documents, Materials for the History of Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Russia, in 1919-23. It limited its area of activities to Petrograd and Petrograd Province from 1923. The society and museum were closed in the late 1929 and 1930, respectively, many of its members subject to repressions.

M. F. Khartanovich. Dubnov Semen Markovich
Rappoport Solomon A.
Sternberg Lev (Haim) Yakovlevich
Vinaver Maxim Moiseevich
5th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 50
Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society
1908
1930