Metadata: Cabinet of the Prefecture – I deposit. Category 25: Jews
Collection
- Country:
- Italy
- Holding institution:
- Milan State Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archivio di Stato di Milano
- Postal address:
- via Senato 10, 20121 Milano
- Phone number:
- +39 027742161
- Web address:
- http://www.archiviodistatomilano.beniculturali.it/
- Email:
- as-mi@beniculturali.it
- Reference number:
- Prefettura di Milano – Gabinetto - I serie Folder: 508
- Title:
- Cabinet of the Prefecture – I deposit. Category 25: Jews
- Title (official language):
- Gabinetto di Prefettura – I versamento. Categoria 25 Ebrei
- Creator/accumulator:
- Cabinet of the Prefecture of Milan
- Date(s):
- 1861-1990
- Date note:
- Jewish-related material dates from 1912-1937
- Language:
- Italian
- Extent:
- 2 files
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The 25th category of this fonds is called "Jews" and contains two files. The first is entitled “Associazione Giovane Israele” (Young Israel Association) and contains the correspondence between the President of the Association Pirro Luzzatto (the secretary was Giuseppe Ottolenghi) and the prefect of Milan, E Panizzardi. Reference is also made to a Pro Causa Ebraica Committee "to which, as you must be informed, belong the most conspicuous personalities of the Milanese and Italian world", 1915.
The second file is called “Circolo Sionistico” (Zionist Circle): the file is arranged into 5 sub-files (191 -1937) concerning the activities of the Milanese Zionist Group and other related bodies. It includes the following documents:
Brochure of the Committee for marine and climate therapy of poor Israelite children in Milan. “Resoconto morale e finanziario della gestione 1912" (Moral and financial report of the management for the year 1912). The Committee consisted of: Fontanina Tina Servadio, Levy Gemma Pugliese, Levi Anna Reiser, Modena Amalia Pontremoli, Rignano Fortunata, Treves Virginia Tedeschi, Vita Rosetta Montefiore, Vita Elena, Weil Sofia, Edoardo Sacerdoti After the announcement of the death of its president, Giacomo Cabib, the offers for the payment of "marine care" for 48 children at the Amati-Martinelli Hospital in Riccione are listed. They were received from the Israelite Kindergarten; Ariani R M; Artom Abramo; Artom Ernesto and Maria; Artom Guido and Gemma; Artom Enrico; Azavei S.; Baer Sara; Basevi Achille; Bergman G; Bernstein Berta; Cabib Cesare; Calef Aristide; Cantoni Pisa Vittoria; Cantoni Lidia Pisa; Cases Fortunato; Colorni Fanny; Coen Edith; Coen Giulia; Debenedetti Umberto; Debenedetti Bettina; Degan Luigi; Della Torre Luigi; Donati Federico; Fano Bice; Finzi Vittore, Aurelia, Ernesta; Fleiss; Fleiscer; Foligno Moise; Fontanella Tina; Formiggini Eloisa; Fubini; Gandus Prospero; Gentili; Goldmann Cesare; Goldstein Julie; Milanese Zionist Group; Guastalla Adele, Giuseppe; Heilbrunn Sally; Jarach Emilio, Gina, Alberto; Kann Aronne; Kaufmann; Lattes Elia; Levi Alessandro, Achille, Ida, Linda, Zelinda, Levy Federico; Loria Ida; Luzzatti Olga; Mayer Sally; Mamoli Nina; Milla Fortunata; Modena Amalia; Modiano Emilia; Nahmias Salvatore; Norsa Pacifico; Orefice; Ottolenghi Vittorio, Tobia, Raffaele; Pavia Virginia; Picard Giulio; Pisa Luigi, Clelia, Olga; Pisatzky Ilda; Pontremoli; Pugliese; Rappaport; Rignano Fortunata; Rosenberg Emma; Sadun Eloisa and Giuseppe; Saberdoti Edmondo and Augusto; Segre Augusto, Giacomo and Salvatore; Sinigaglia Eloisa; Charitable Israelite Society; Spitz Maria; Sullam Giuseppe; Tedeschi Flaminio, Arnaldo; Tedesco Vittorina; Treves Cesare, Virginia, Ada Segre, Leone, Luigia Trevisa; Valabrega; Ventura Vittorio; Vitali Michele and Edoardo; Vitale Aronne; Vita brothers; Weil Edoardo, Mario and Regina; Weiss Ugo.
Letter of Rav Ferruccio Servi of the periodical "Il Vessillo Israelitico" of 16 December 1915 to the prefect of Milan in which among other things we read: "we ask only for the widest respect for freedom of conscience: that all citizens, to whatever religious faith they belong, be made equal in their rights and duties, and a stop to religious persecutions, restrictions on freedom of residence [referring to the expelled Jews of Russia and Romania] and - worse - the organisation of expulsions and massacres”.
Correspondence between the lawyer Giuseppe Ottolenghi, president of the Federazione giovanile ebraica d'Italia (Young Jewish Federation of Italy), the prefect of Milan and the local police chief, on the request for policing service for a charity party organised at the "Cova" salon in Milan (April 1921).
Correspondence of 1928-1929 related to the meetings of the Milanese Zionist Group and to requests for passports presented by Aldo Levi di Corrado; Leone Carpi, Eugenio Coloni [Colorni?], son of the late Alberto; Gino Corinaldi, son of the late Ugo; Luigi Ventura, son of the late Arturo; Terracina Ventura, son of Giacomo; Manfredo Primo Urbino son of the late Giuseppe for their participation in the Zionist Congress in Zurich.
Press clippings of the newspapers "Tever" and "Il popolo di Lodi" relating to the arrests of anti-fascist Jews from Turin in 1934.
- Archival history:
-
The law of 1875, included in the Regulation of 1911, established that the archives of the central magistracies of pre-unification states should form, within the individual Archives, the section of State Acts. The other fonds had to be divided into three more sections, namely Judicial Documents, Administrative Documents, Notarial Deeds. All the remaining archives should form special sections.
Until 1963 the fonds of the State Archives of Milan were then assigned to the various sections, which changed over time [among them we point out the Historical-diplomatic, the Administrative and Financial, the Judiciary, the Military, the Confidential archive; in 1919, after the management of Luigi Fumi, sections of State Acts and Administrative Acts, Judicial Proceedings, Archives of the reigns of the Visconti and Sforza, Religion fonds and collections; in 1950 the First sections (State Acts i.e. Peronian Government Acts), Second (Administrative Acts), Third (Judicial Acts), Fourth (Special Collections), Fifth (Purchases, Gifts, Transfers)].
Following the loss of a large quantity of documents, series and entire fonds during the Second World War and with the transfer of new large archives, including the Notarial Archive and the Cadastral Archive, the fonds were reorganised.
The General Guide to the State Archives describes the fonds of the AS MI in the 1980s, grouping them, where possible, according to the historical period (Ancien Régimes, Napoleonic, Restoration, Post-unitary). The Acts of Government fonds (15th-19th century) could be inserted in any of these historical periods, for its peculiar characteristics, and is considered in its own right. The Diplomatic fonds is also presented in its own right, including the Diplomatic Archive (consisting of the fonds with the oldest documentation) and the Historical Section (containing miscellaneous material and collections). The remaining fonds are identified by type or according to the creator body (Fascist archives, Notaries, Cadastres, Pious and Charitable institutions, Religious corporations; Family and individuals' archives, Different archives, Collections and miscellaneous).
In terms of order and arrangement, the archival history of the pre-unification fonds of the AS MI was characterised by the so-called Peronian system, a particular type of organisation by subject implemented in the 18th and 19th centuries by the Milanese archivists, who created the complex of fonds named Government Acts; to the latter were added the documentary aggregations carried out in the 18th and 19th centuries that produced collections and miscellaneous sections.
A real archive of the Cabinet Office is mentioned for the first time in the regulation, approved through the Royal Decree no. 6107 of 10 June 1889, concerning the application of the unified text n. 5921 of 10 February 1889, on the regulation of local authorities.
Circular no. 8900.18 of 3 August 1940 clearly established that two current archives should be established and managed, one for the office of the cabinet and the other for administrative offices. At the same time, the circular established a national filing system for cabinet office files and a classification filing system for administrative documents. The political situation, however, made it almost impossible to implement the new rules, so that the nineteenth-century legislation remained in force until the publication of the circular no. M / 33301 of 27 March 1962. (http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/archivi/complessi-archivistici/MIBA00BE9F/)
The documents of the prefecture of Milan were transferred to the Milan State Archive in three successive batches: one in 1957 (with deeds from 1901 to 1937); one in 1989 (with deeds from 1938 to 1955) and one in 1998 (including category 031 until 1955 and the acts of the Refugee Office and the Ministry of post-war assistance).
See also http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/archivi/soggetti-conservatori/MIAA00017D/
- Administrative/biographical history:
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Prefectures were established after the unification of Italy by the Royal Decree of 9 October 1861, no. 250, with the task of representing the central power in the provinces of the state. The Prefects had public safety duties and dealt with issues related to health (vaccines and pharmacies), public utility services (cemeteries, the sick and orphans, indigents and "maniacs"), worship (control over convents, monasteries and other religious orders) and for some periods also public education. The Prefects were appointed by the government and were supported in their activity by the Prefecture Council. With the Royal Decree of 10 June 1889, no. 6107, implemented with the municipal and provincial Regulations of 12 November 1911, no. 1, the structure of Prefectures was changed and took on a much more complex form. The Prefecture Cabinet was set up to deal with the Prefect's secretariat affairs, confidential and political affairs, affairs related to internal staff and other government offices, associations, emigration, the press and to manage relations with political and military authorities; four Divisions, an Accountancy Office, the Office of the Superintendent of Schools (Provveditore agli Studi) and the Public Security Office for affairs related to the Judicial and Administrative Police. The legislation on Prefectures was revised under Fascism with the law of 3 April 1926, no. 660, acknowledged by the Municipal and Provincial Unified Text of 9 March 1934, no. 383, with which the role of the Prefect as an emanation of central power and tool for the control of the opposition was strengthened. The Royal decree no. 1058 of 26 June 1937 established that the three fifths of the prefects were to be officials of the Ministry of the Interior. With the fall of fascism, in northern Italy the prefects were replaced, for a very short period, by political prefects, appointed within the National Liberation Committee. In fact, in 1946 the prefectures were totally reorganised and placed under the direction of a state official.
In 1999, with the Legislative Decree no. 300 of 30 July 1999, the Prefecture was transformed into the Territorial Office of the government and the prefects were given the task of representing the government in the territory, coordinating state administrations in the territory, protecting public order, dealing with civil protection, civil defence and collaborating with regions and local authorities. Over the last few years the Prefectures have acquired new tasks in the areas of road traffic, anti-mafia, anti-racket and anti-usury activities and immigration control.
- Access points: locations:
- Milan
- System of arrangement:
- The files were arranged into 49 categories, probably in 1943.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center - Milan
- Author of the description:
- Rori Mancino; Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea; 2017
