CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Batsman, Maryna Valerijevna |
|---|---|
| Title | Crafting a Jewish School System for Soviet Ukraine: Interwar Nationality Policies and Yiddish Pedagogical Writing |
| Summary | The thesis deals with the educational intelligentsia in the Yiddish secular school system in Ukraine during the five transformative years from 1918 to 1923. It shows how the Jewish secular school system was crafted on the examples of the two Yiddish journals, Shul un Lebn (School and Life) 1918-1920, and Pedagogisher Biuleten (Pedagogical Newsletter) 1922-1923. The thesis describes how the Jewish intelligentsia benefited from the political situation in Ukraine during the Central Rada in 1918 by having their own Ministry of Jewish Affairs and de-facto cultural autonomy and supervision of the Yiddish-language schools. In addition, it analyses the impact of the early Soviet power during the very beginning of korenizatsiia policy. Jewish educators are discussed from two perspectives: as part of the Soviet teachers’ collective and as the committed followers of the international reform trends that characterize pedagogical thought and practice in the early decades of the twentieth century. The thesis emphasizes the special mediating role of the Jewish activist and the Bolshevik propagandist in Sovietizing the Jewish school. |
| Supervisor | Wilke, L. Carsten |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/batsman_maryna.pdf |
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