Metadata: The Zelmanovich Family
Collection
- Country:
- Estonia
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archives of Estonia
- Holding institution (official language):
- Eesti Ajalooarhiiv
- Postal address:
- Tartu, J. Liivi 4, 50409
- Phone number:
- (+372) 738 7500
- Web address:
- https://www.ra.ee/et/kes-me-oleme-2/
- Email:
- rahvusarhiiv@ra.ee
- Reference number:
- f. 1455
- Title:
- The Zelmanovich Family
- Title (official language):
- Perekond Selmanovitš
- Creator/accumulator:
- Zelmanovich Family
- Date(s):
- 1884/1939
- Language:
- German
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 7 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection of the Zelmanovich family includes private materials along with papers and correspondence reflecting the family's business activities: account and inventory books, correspondence on commercial issues and documents on the purchasing of real estate in Tartu. Photographs and albums, including photographs of family members, are also a part of the collection.
- Archival history:
- The materials constituting the current collection were acquired by the Central State Historical Archive of Estonia, predecessor of the current Estonian Historical Archives, in 1947. In 1954 certain parts of the collection – condolence letters for the death of Leiser Zelmanovich, receipts and other documents – were destroyed.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The merchant and businessman Leiser Zelmanovich (1862-1934), a native of Siauliai, moved to Tartu with his wife Rachel and his brother Hirsh (1869-1922) in the late 19th century. He became a prominent member of the Jewish community there, serving as a member of the board of the Jewish Cooperative Bank of Tartu and as chairman of the local Jewish community.
Leiser and Hirsh Zelmanovich owned the first cinema in Tartu and ran printing and other businesses.
Leiser's son Reuven became the owner of the family business after his father’s death. He was arrested by the Soviets in 1940.
- Access points: locations:
- Tartu
- Access points: persons/families:
- Zelmanovich family
- Zelmanovich, Leiser
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Personal records
- Photographs
- Real estate
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of one inventory.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is open for reference at the Estonian Historical Archives, Tartu.
- Finding aids:
-
Basic data on the collection is available at the web portal of the National Archives of Estonia: http://ais.ra.ee, Detailotsing – Leidandmed – EAA.1455.
Photos from an album (EAA.1455.1.7) are available online at the FOTIS database (the database of photos of the National Archives of Estonia). Data on the members of the Zelmanovich family and on the family business can be also found in the files of the Tartu Orphans' Court (EAA.350), in the files of the Estonian Ministry of Industry (ERA.72), in the files of the Soviet-Estonian authorities (ERA.R-13) and in other collections.
For further reference see: Ajalooarhiiv, Arhiivijuht IV, Tartu 2012, 221-222.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://ais.ra.ee
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Tatjana Schor, Historical Archives of Estonia, and Alex Valdman, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2015
