Metadata: The Moscow Archives
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Historical Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Јеврејски историјски музеј (Jevrejski istorijski muzej)
- Postal address:
- Kralja Petra 71A, 21000 Belgrade
- Phone number:
- (+381) 112622-634
- Web address:
- http://www.jimbeograd.org/
- Reference number:
- AJIM, MG
- Title:
- The Moscow Archives
- Title (official language):
- Московска грађа
- Creator/accumulator:
- Religious School of the Jewish Community Belgrade
- Date(s):
- 1815/1941
- Language:
- Serbian
- Hebrew
- Ladino
- Extent:
- 497 rolls of microfilm (287,297 pages)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
Sub-fonds No. 1429 comprises 99,770 listed sheets grouped into 351 archival units, each containing 150 to 500 sheets, created by the activities of the Jewish community in Belgrade between 1815 and 1941. The other part of the sub-fonds remains uncatalogued, although it contains agreements the Jewish Community of Belgrade made with various institutions, companies and persons regarding tenancy of premises, lists of persons who helped the Jewish community, financial documentation and the like dating from 1911 to 1940. The collection includes the rules of the Jewish communities, as well as the minutes from the election rallies in Belgrade (voting material, lists of members, posters, invitations, etc.), sessions of the Administration of the Jewish community, correspondence with the public authorities (Administration of the Town of Belgrade, the ministries of the Army and education and other institutions), with its members (issue of birth and death certificates, marriages) and Jewish communities in Serbia and abroad, financial documents (various invoices, contracts, budgets of public utilities, schools, graveyard companies, etc.), material assistance to poor Jews and their medical treatment, on the Jewish schools and societies ("Rehica Gedola", The Musical Society "David", Serbian-Jewish Singing Society, Society “Oneg Shabbat and Gemulim Hasadim", The Society of Serbian-Jewish Youth, Serbian-Jewish Women’s Society and others).
Sub-fonds No. 799 comprises documents of the Yugoslav Masonic Lodge dating from 1900 to 1930, arranged in 123 archival units. It contains books of minutes from the meetings of the Lodge “Serbia” and the Lodge “Bene Berit”, whether regular or extraordinary meetings. In addition, there are minutes from other lodges and their meetings in the period 1933-1947.
The documents in sub-fonds no. 1412 mainly refer to the "Grand Lodge of Yugoslavia" in the period from 1926 to 1941. They include lists of members of various bodies, including the “Bene Berit” Lodge as well as an overall review of lodges in 1939. The lists were compiled in German. There are lists of the lodges "Ivan Grof Drašković" and “Pobratim" and minutes from the sessions of various lodges, including the lodge "Dr Solomon Alkalaj". The documents were written in Serbian, German and French. The catalogued material comprises 13,327 pages.
Sub-fonds No. 497 comprises 23 rolls of microfilm with 32,000 pages created by the Administration of the Belgrade Jewish Sephardic community from 1860 to 1940 which were stored in the Archives in Lavov. Mostly, the documents related to the financing and maintaining of the work of the community; extensive correspondence with the Administration of the Town of Belgrade on various issues was preserved. The documents refer to the work of various municipal societies up to 1940, including the Federation of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia, as well as to the work of the Ashkenazi Community in Belgrade. The sub-fonds comprised also various invitations and certificates, lists of poor people in need of help, medical treatments, etc.
- Archival history:
- The original documents were captured by the Red Army during an attempt to move them from occupied Belgrade to Germany. The documents were stored in the State Military Archive of Russia, in the Centre for the Preservation of Historical and Documentary Collections in Moscow. It is assumed that within the collections of the State Russian Military Archive in Moscow, there are other fonds related to the activities of the Jewish community in Belgrade.
- Access points: locations:
- Belgrade
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system of arrangement.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is not available for research.
- Finding aids:
- No finding aids have been created.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Bojan Zorić; Jewish Historical Museum; 2020