Metadata: Jewish Religious Community Erdevik
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archives “Srem”, Sremska Mitrovica
- Holding institution (official language):
- Историјски архив "Срем" Сремска Митровица (Istorijski arhiv "Srem" Sremska Mitrovica)
- Postal address:
- Vuka Karadzića 4, Sremska Mitrovica
- Phone number:
- (+381) 22 621-861
- Web address:
- http://www.arhivsrem.org.rs/
- Email:
- info@arhivsrem.org.rs
- Reference number:
- F.330
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community Erdevik
- Title (official language):
- Израелистичка богословна општина Ердевик
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community Erdevik
- Date(s):
- 1809/1940
- Language:
- Croatian
- Extent:
- 0.09 linear metre (6 administrative books; 20 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The Jewish community in Erdevik had a synagogue which kept registers of births, marriages and deaths. These provided personal data of the Jewish population throughout the 19th century and the first four decades of the 20th century (1809-1940):
Registers of Births (1809-1940; 2 books). These registers cover Erdevik, Ljuba, Bingula, Topola, Šašinci, Kukujevci, Divos, Chalma, Budimpešta and Šid. They provide the name, surname and gender of the child, information about the parents and their residence, name and surname of the midwife, the date of circumcision (for male children), the name of the circumciser, date of naming (for female children), data on the child's godfather. The registers include the names of Handler, Šmit, Kon, Lustig, Epštajn and others.
Registers of Marriages (1856-1923; 2 books). These registers provide personal data of the spouses, date and place of the wedding, data on the witnesses and the person who performed the ceremony. Erdevik, Čalma and Ljuba are named as locations of marriages.
Registers of Deaths (1858-1936, 2 books). These registers provide data on the deceased: name and surname, place of birth, profession, marital status, age, place and address where the person died and burial place, cause of death. The recorded deaths mostly occurred in Erdevik, but also in neighbouring Bingula. Erdevik, Vizić, Divoš, Nova Palanka, Čalma, Mitrovica, Ljuba, Šid, Ilok, Beočin and others were entered as the burial places. Along with the registers of deaths in the form of records, for 1919-1939 the certificates, called “razglednice”, were preserved, representing the statements made by doctors who confirmed the death, for the Municipality of Erdevik.
The authenticity of the copies of the register books of births and marriages kept in 1914 was confirmed by the seal of the District Rabbinate and the register office in Ilok. The registers of births and deaths until the Second World War were certified by the Jewish Religious Community in Erdevik. Some excerpts on the marriages from the Jewish Religious Community in Mitrovica in 1923 were also preserved. The records created in the period 1926–1928 include those of individuals who converted to Judaism. The records were sent to the Grand Duke of the Srem County in Vukovar for the purpose of entering data into the registers. A list of register books of the Jewish community, handed over to the municipal administration in Erdevik in August 1940, is also included in the collection.
- Archival history:
- The documents were transferred to the Archives on 5 September 1976, as recorded in the hand-over minutes, Ref. No. 987/76, from the Jewish Religious Community Erdevik. They were classified and arranged in June 2007. The new transfer was completed in 2019, as recorded in the minutes Ref. No. 02-391.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
After the Turks were expelled and the Habsburgs took over Srem, they gave it to the nobility and to the military commanders who remained loyal to them during the war. Count Odeskalski received the town of Ilok with numerous settlements as a gift, along with the town of Erdevik, which remained in his possession until World War I.
The Jews settling in Vojvodina increased the population, although the Habsburgs initially had a negative attitude towards their coming to those territories. The first Jews moved to Erdevik in 1847; ten in number. In the following 10 years, the number of Jews in Erdevik quadrupled, and then gradually increased until 1900. In the 20th century, the number of Jews slowly decreased, and disappeared entirely in 1941 after the occupation of Srem by the Independent State of Croatia. The Jews tried to flee to America. Those who failed were arrested and deported to Nazi camps, from where they never returned, so the Jewish Religious Community ceased to exist. There was a synagogue in Erdevik, located in a house that was sold after 1947, although it still exists today as a residential building.
- Access points: locations:
- Beočin
- Bingula
- Erdevik
- Ljuba
- Nova Palanka
- Šid
- Sremska Mitrovica
- Vizić
- System of arrangement:
- The documents are arranged according to the principle of provenance i.e. the original order as maintained in the creator’s office.
- Finding aids:
- The following finding aids are available: administrative history; Guide to the Archival Fonds of the Historical Archives “Srem”, IV, Sremska Mitrovica, 2005; Guide to the Archival Fonds and Collections acquired in the period 2000-2018; Sremska Mitrovica, 2018.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Dejan Mostarlić; Historical Archives "Srem" Sremska Mitrovica; 2020
