Metadata: Zarasai (Novoalexandrovsk) General Crafts Board 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-558
- Title:
- Zarasai (Novoalexandrovsk) General Crafts Board in the Governorate of Kaunas
- Title (official language):
- Kauno gubernijos Zarasų (Novoaleksandrovsko) bendroji amatų valdyba (Новоалександровская общая ремесленная управа Ковенской губернии)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Zarasai (Novoalexandrovsk) General Crafts Board in the Governorate of Kaunas
- Date(s):
- 1868/1891
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 53 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection is divided into two inventories. One of them comprises files from the Ežerėnai (Zarasai/Novoalexandrovsk) district and the other part comprises files from the Ežerėnai (Zarasai/ Alexandrovsk) town and district.
The files from the Ežerėnai (Zarasai/Novoalexandrovsk) district include regulations issued by the Rokiskis crafts board; regulations regarding concessions of social and financial benefits to impoverished artisans; regulations issued in relation to job applications for artisan positions; and various money related documents. The files from the Ežerėnai (Zarasai/Alexandrovsk) town and district include expenditure books of various factories; books of receipts; books of verdicts; finance related books of Novoalexandrovsk factory; a book of verdicts of Novoalexandrovsk factory; finance related books of Rokiskis crafts board and factories; finance related books of factories in Antaliepte, Dusetos and Salakas.
Jewish-related material from the Ežerėnai (Zarasai/Novoalexandrovsk) district includes regulations on the procedures regarding the election of the foreman and counsellors of the crafts board in Rokiskis (1886); regulations on the issue of certificates to artisans allowing them to work at their trade (1888, 1890); regulations on the recovery of money from artisans at the cash desk (1889); a book of master craftsmen (1891, 1892-1893).
Jewish-related material from the Ežerėnai (Zarasai/Alexandrovsk) town and district includes a book of apprentices from a factory in Kamojys [now in Belarus] (1874); a book of apprentices from a factory in Antaliepte town (1881); books of master craftsmen from factories in Antaliepte, Dusetos, and Salakai (1881, 1883); regulations issued by the crafts board of Novoalexandrovsk regarding artisans accused of abuse (1883); regulations on the recovery of money and apportionment, complaints on the apportionment and regulations of the crafts board (1883). A book of apprentices in a factory in Dusetos is found to be empty (1874).
- Archival history:
- The date of the reception of the documents and their source is undetermined. The fonds was last reviewed and signed by an archivist on 16 May 1956. The documents were recorded in the Kaunas branch of the former Lithuanian SSR Central State Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Zarasai used to be known as Novoalexandrovsk as it was renamed by the son of Tsar Nicolas I in 1836. This name was maintained until 1918. From 1918-1929 the town was known as Ežerėnai. Its Yiddish name Ezherene is also derived from Ežerėnai. The current name Zarasai was adopted in 1929. In 1847 there were about 473 Jews in the town, and in the 1890s there were about 3,000. About one third of Zarasai Jews worked the land and the rest were tradesmen and craftsmen. The community had six prayer houses, study houses and one big synagogue.
- Access points: locations:
- Antalieptė
- Dusetos
- Ežerėnai
- Novoalexandrovsk
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is divided into two inventories, each of which is arranged chronologically.
- 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
