Metadata: Personnel, personnel files
Collection
- Country:
- Italy
- Holding institution:
- Centre of Contemporary Jewish Documentation
- Holding institution (official language):
- Fondazione Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea
- Postal address:
- via Eupili 8, 20145 Milano
- Phone number:
- +39 02316338
- Web address:
- http://www.cdec.it/
- Email:
- cdec@cdec.it
- Reference number:
- I° versamento: 29, 43; II° versamento: 21, 25bis
- Title:
- Personnel, personnel files
- Title (official language):
- Personale, fascicoli del personale
- Creator/accumulator:
- Milan Jewish Community
- Date(s):
- 1948-1969
- Extent:
- 19 files
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This sub-series contains family certificates for the granting of family allowances, receipts for the delivery of work cards and pensions (INPS), retirement requests and lists of teachers with registration numbers and personal data, hiring at the Community schools, list of suppliers of services to be removed from the health insurance fund; list of staff for the delivery of the INADEL booklets, correspondence with the secretariat of the Jewish school of Milan on the termination of insurance at the Istituto Nazionale per l'Assicurazione contro le Malattie (INAM, National Institute for Insurance against Illnesses), requests to the INPS for pension booklets and personal papers; insurance claims for compulsory contributions, notes for income tax returns; authorisation of the employment office, personal data for INPS; certificates of service; list of registered teachers who left their jobs, a brochure about the booklets requested and delivered from 1958 to 1968; correspondence on the collection of INPS contributions for the special operations of 1948 and 1949 with statements of payments to the Fund for loans and savings for Jews; collection of INPS brochures, circulars and newsletters; calculations of the liquidation of social security contributions; copies of complaints about INPS contributions from 1948 to 1952; declaration of contributions to the Istituto Nazionale Assistenza Dipendenti Enti Locali (INADEL, National Institute for the Assistance of Employees of Local Authorities) for the years 1964 and 1965.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Community of Milan, with its origins as a section of Mantua’s Community, developed around the middle of the 19th century, following the arrival of numerous Mantuan Jews who fled the violent antisemitic demonstrations of 1842. In Milan, without a real official and organised community, the relations with the mother community were governed by the Austrian civil code, according to which smaller communities must refer to the larger ones. Only in 1855 was the Jewish Consortium established, the first Jewish organisation in Milan, which in 1866 broke away from Mantua. The consortium did not assume the legal characteristics dictated by the Rattazzi law but reaffirmed its nature as a voluntary association with the only commitment for the members being the contributions for its maintenance. Thanks to the sudden economic, industrial and commercial development of Milan, the community grew rapidly: in 1890 it had 2,000 members, in the 1930s 8,000 Jews arrived from Piedmont, Marche, Tuscany and Veneto but also from Germany and from Central and Eastern Europe. In October 1930 the Council of Ministers approved the Royal Decree 1731, the new law on the Jewish communities and on the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities. A few days after the approval of the decree, Federico Jarach was elected the first president of the Jewish Community of Milan. In 1938 on the eve of antisemitic laws, the Community of Milan had just 5,000 members out of a total Jewish population of about 8,000 people. At the end of the Second World War, the Community of Milan became a crossing point for many refugees and survivors of the Nazi concentration camps, collaborating with relief organisations such as the Joint, ADEI-WIZO, the ORT, and UNRRA using the building of via Unione 5 as the main reception, research and sorting centre for Jews returning from concentration camps. In the 1950s the community welcomed groups of Jews from Egypt, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran who settled in Milan because they were fleeing the Arab-Israeli wars, giving rise to an integration process that changed the original face of the Milanese community. Today it includes the districts of Como, Pavia, Sondrio and Varese.
- Access points: locations:
- Milan
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Jewish community
- Yerusha Network member:
- Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center - Milan
- Author of the description:
- Paola Cipolla
