Metadata: Regional Administration of Serbian Voivodeship and Timisoara Banat
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Archives of Vojvodina
- Holding institution (official language):
- Архив Војводине (Arhiv Vojvodine)
- Postal address:
- Žarka Vasiljevića 2а, 21101 Novi Sad
- Phone number:
- (+381 21) 4891-800
- Web address:
- https://www.arhivvojvodine.org.rs/index.php
- Email:
- info@arhivvojvodine.org.rs
- Reference number:
- F. 23
- Title:
- Regional Administration of Serbian Voivodeship and Timisoara Banat
- Title (official language):
- Zemaljska uprava za Srpsko Vojvodstvo i Tamiški Banat
- Creator/accumulator:
- Regional Administration of Serbian Voivodeship and Timisoara Banat
- Date(s):
- 1849/1861
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Latin
- Extent:
- 169 linear metres (157 administrative books, 1,257 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The records in this collection date from 1849 to 1861. Among other documents it also includes those referring to the life of the Jewish community. A large number of documents relate to the issue of passports to Jews, to petitions and certificates, as well as the awareness of the commissariats in Greater Bečkerek, Sombor, Ruma and Novi Sad who were cautious because of the recorded cases of their sale.
There are an interesting series of documents relating to Jakob Berger, a singer from Novi Sad, who applied for a work permit which he was eventually granted, unlike the members of his family. There are also some documents relating to a situation in which the oldest members of the Jewish community in Novi Sad had to confirm the Jewish origin of a woman who was a member of their community. The case of a Senta rabbi who intended to travel to Palestine was particularly under review.
The collection also includes records relating to illegal activities, such as: monitoring of cases of helping the haiduks (rebels); participation in criminal groups, especially in Jewish criminal groups which operated in Upper Hungary; investigation of Jewish citizens who participated in melting silver and gold obtained illegally after the Hungarian revolution (1848); seizure of weapons found in a house owned by a Jew who smuggled them through Klenko to Serbia; preventing the smuggling of horses across the border organised by Jews from Temerin (1859); announcement of a ban, issued by the Regency administration, referring to Jews from Hungary who had been involved in buying of gold and silver from citizens, convinced that banknotes would lose their value; houses searches for illegal actions.
The Ministry of the Interior reported on the founding of the Jewish Literary Association of Dr. Ludvig Filipson in Magdeburg and its members, as well as the gathering of charities on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Rabbi Dr Ludvig Filipson. There are also reports on the political correctness of individuals; monitoring the movements of ‘politically dangerous’ Jewish merchants from London and Venice; statements of County Commissars related to Jews who applied for positions of presidents of orphanages, in line with the 1858 Act.
The collection also contains information on the everyday life of the Jewish community: request of an artist from Paris, Karl Kraus, who wanted to donate 10% of his profit for commemoration of Israelites (1860); reports on molestation; reports on increased antipathy for Jews; order to confiscate the brochure “Alliance israélite universelle” published in Paris; reactions to an article by rabbi David Openhajm in the magazine “Judenthum” (1859); the Ministry of Religion and Education stated that it did not object to the use of the Jewish prayer books ”Sider Harinah Vatfilijah” and“Sare Cijon”(1857); reports on the reactions of Jewish citizens to the imperial Patent (proclamation) of 2 October 1853 which limited the right of Jews to own real estate.
- Archival history:
- The collection was restituted by the Hungarian State Archives in Budapest in 1960 and was transferred to the State Archives of Vojvodina in Sremski Karlovci. In 1981 the books of the fonds were classified and worthless office documentation was singled out. A summary catalogue was created. In 1986 and 1987 the documentation was reviewed and a new summary catalogue was created.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In line with the Patent of 18 October 1849 the Serbian Voivodship and the Tamish Banat were formed. The Ministry of the Interior of the Austrian Monarchy, on 17 August 1851, ordered the division of the Serbian Voivodship and Tamish Banat into districts, counties and municipalities, headed by a governor, senior commissar, county and district and municipality administrators. There were five districts: Lugoš, Timisoara, Veliki Bečkerek, Sombor and Novi Sad. Lugoš district was divided into the following counties: Lugoš, Fačet, Oravica and Bokšan; Timisoara district was divided into Novi Arad, Lipu, Temišvar, Čakovo and Vršac; Veliki Bečkerek into Sent Mikološ, Hacfeld (Žombolja), Tursku Kanjižu, Veliku Kikindu, Modoš and Bečkerek; Sombor district into Sombor, Baja, Suboticaand Kula; and Novi Sad into Novi Sad, Palanka, Bečej, Ilok and Ruma. Within the districts, former privileged towns were organised as special administrative units. The Imperial Decree of 27 December 1860 abolished the Serbian Voivodship and Timisoara Banat and included them in the Hungarian Kingdom. On 4 January 1861 the administrative organisation of Serbian Voivodship and Timisoara Banat was finally terminated.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Berger, Jakob
- Filipson, Ludvig
- Openhajm, David
- System of arrangement:
- The collection comprises Presidia documents (1849-1861) and General archives (1850-1853), divided into departments and sub departments (1854-1861).
- Finding aids:
- The following finding aids are available: summary inventory; administrative history of the creator; analytical inventory; geographical register; thematic register.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.arhivvojvodine.org.rs/index.php/sr/zemaljska-uprava-za-svitb-ci
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Snežana Božanić; Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad; 2019