Metadata: Jewish Community of Võru
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. 5421
- Title:
- Jewish Community of Võru
- Title (official language):
- Võru juudiusu kogudus
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Community of Võru
- Date(s):
- 1883/1926
- Language:
- Russian
- Estonian
- Extent:
- 4 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes books of civil records of the Jewish community of Võru: copies of birth records from the years 1883-1917, original yearly records from 1917-25 and death records from 1918-26.
- 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:
-
The first Jewish residents of Võru were demobilised soldiers and artisans, settling there from the 1860s on. The community gained official recognition in the 1880s. In 1897 around 300 Jews resided in the town and county of Võru.
In post-World War I Estonia, the community joined the country’s system of Jewish cultural autonomy as part of the Regional Cultural Self-Government of Võru and Petseri.
- Access points: locations:
- Võru
- 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.5421.
For additional data see: Estonian State Archives, ERA.14.11.1037; ERA.14.1.1038 (Materials of the Estonian Ministry of Interior); ERA.2275 (Materials of the regional cultural self-government of Võru and Petseri).
- 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