Metadata: Board of Jurbarkas Burghers in Raseiniai County in the Governorate of Kaunas
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Kaunas Regional State Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Kauno regioninis valstybės archyvas
- Postal address:
- 44248, Maironio g. 28B, Kaunas 44249
- Phone number:
- +370 (837) 323 111
- Web address:
- https://www.archyvai.lt/lt/kaa_naujienos.html
- Email:
- kaunas@archyvai.lt
- Reference number:
- F. I-222
- Title:
- Board of Jurbarkas Burghers in Raseiniai County in the Governorate of Kaunas
- Title (official language):
- Kauno gubernijos Raseinių apskrities Jurbarko miestiečių valdyba (Юрбургская мещанская управа Россиенского уезда Ковенской губернии)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Board of Jurbarkas burghers in Raseiniai county in the governorate of Kaunas
- Date(s):
- 1893/1914
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 15 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains records of documents accumulated by the Board of Jurbarkas Burghers including records of registry books of postal correspondence on insurance questions, receipt of parcels from the postal telegraph bureau, a registry book of verdicts announced by the board, and a record of an accounting journal for property tax. Jewish related material is found in records of passport registry books.
- Archival history:
- The date the documents were received and their source is undetermined. The fonds contains documents which are to be preserved permanently.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In Jewish sources Jurbarkas is called Jurburg or Yurburg. The Jewish community of Jurbarkas is one of the earliest in Lithuania, as Jews began settling there in the middle of the 17th century. The first wooden synagogue in Jurbarkas was built in the 1780s; it used to be one of the most beautiful synagogues in the region. The Jewish community of Jurbarkas was prominent in economic and cultural spheres. In 1897 the Jewish population made up about one third of the town’s total population. The Jewish community of Jurbarkas was also very active in the Haskalah movement. During WWI, most of the Jews left; however, many returned after the war.
- Access points: locations:
- Jurbarkas
- Subject terms:
- Passports and visas
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged on a chronological basis.
- Finding aids:
- A list of files is available at the Kaunas Regional State Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Monika Žulytė