Metadata: Jewish Community of Narva
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. 5417
- Title:
- Jewish Community of Narva
- Title (official language):
- Narva Juudiusu Ühing
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Community of Narva
- Date(s):
- 1911/1926
- Language:
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Estonian
- Extent:
- 28 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes books of civil records of the Jewish community of Narva: birth records from the years 1911-25, marriage records from 1911-26, divorce records from 1911-24 and death records from 1911-25.
- Archival history:
- The civil record books were kept in the archive of the Estonian Ministry of the Interior until 2009, when they were transferred to the Estonian Historical Archives in Tartu.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
A Jewish community in Narva did not exist before the last decades of the 19th century. Artisans and demobilised soldiers settled in the town from the 1860s. A Jewish prayer house was granted approval in 1877 and established in 1884. Other communal institutions were established in subsequent years.
After Estonian independence, the Jewish community of Narva joined the system of Jewish cultural self-government; it functioned until the Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1940.
- Access points: locations:
- Narva
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of one inventory.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is open for reference at the Historical Arсhives of Estonia, Tartu. For further data and online access (registration may be required), see the digital access system of the Estonian Archives.
- 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.5417.
For further data see the following collections: ERA.14 (Ministry of Interior of Estonia); EAA.633 (The Police Board of Narva); see the list of Jewish-related materials at the digital access system of the Estonian Archives.
- 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
