Metadata: City (of Velika Kikinda) with the Organised Senate
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archives of Kikinda
- Holding institution (official language):
- Историјски архив Kикинда (Istorijski arhiv Kikinda)
- Postal address:
- Trg srpskih dobrovoljaca 21, 23300 Kikinda
- Phone number:
- (+381)230 422187
- Web address:
- http://arhivkikinda.org.rs/
- Email:
- arhivkikinda@gmail.com
- Reference number:
- F. 223
- Title:
- City (of Velika Kikinda) with the Organised Senate
- Title (official language):
- Велика Кикинда Град са уређеним сенатом
- Creator/accumulator:
- City of Velika Kikinda with the Organised Senate
- Date(s):
- 1775/1918
- Language:
- Serbian
- German
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 50 linear metres (262 administrative books; 206 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The documents in this collection date from 1775 to 1918, i.e. from the foundation of the Privileged District of Velika Kikinda to the end of World War I. The collection contains various records relating to Jewish history, such as: a purchase contract between Jozef Švarc and Lazar Volf who bought a house from Molnar Mihalj in order to "build a Jewish church” in 1815; a document stating that the rabbi in Velika Kikinda in 1819 was Kon Levin. The records created in the following years dealt with the orders, issued by the Torontal District and forwarded to the Magistrate and other places, which referred to permits regarding immigration, work, tolerance taxes, etc. Documents from 1839 give some details on the local merchant Beron and also include a list of the 227 Jewish inhabitants in Velika Kikinda. Such censuses also exist for 1841, 1842 and 1844.
The collection also contains related to the election and appointment of the president and members of the Jewish Religious Community in 1853, a list of Jews who lived in Velika Kikinda in 1854, a list of Jewish teachers (including Jakob H. and Levi Samuel) and a list of places which came under the administration of the District.
Leopold Jokl established the first printing house in Velika Kikinda in 1874 and was the editor of the first newspaper. The minutes of the sessions of the City Municipality for 1878 highlighted that the Municipality filed a lawsuit against Jokl because he criticised the unsatisfactory work of the Municipality. It was also recorded that there existed some financial obligations towards the Jewish school which had previously requested equal assistance as the other religious schools were granted.
The records from the late 19th and early 20th century testify to the development of the progressive Jewish community in Velika Kikinda, which consisted of prominent merchants, lawyers, doctors and others.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the Historical Archives Kikinda by the People's Committee of the City of Kikinda.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The official name of the archival fonds is The City (of Velika Kikinda) with the Organised Senate, the status it received in 1893 when the Privileged District of Velika Kikinda ceased to exist. The city administration was founded in 1775, the city was administrated by a judge (birov), who was elected every three years, along with sworn officers known as eškuti. Later, the city was administrated by the Municipal Representation until 1893. The District of Velika Kikinda i.e. the city of Velika Kikinda as the centre of the District, exercised administrative power, conducted the judicial, economic and social affairs, as well as the educational and religious communities that existed in Velika Kikinda.
- Access points: locations:
- Kikinda
- Access points: persons/families:
- Beron
- Jokl, Leopold
- Subject terms:
- Census
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Teachers and professors
- Financial records
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Physicians and nurses
- Jewish community
- Printing
- Professions
- Professions--Lawyers
- Rabbis
- Synagogues
- Taxation
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The collection was arranged in five organisational units or series, respecting the original order of the creator, and chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- The following finding aids are available: summary catalogue; analytical inventory for the unit titled Minutes From the Sessions of the Municipality Representative 1852-1881; Register of the Archival Fonds of the Historical Archives of Kikinda.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://arhivkikinda.org.rs/?page_id=270
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Vladimir Dudić; Historical Archives of Kikinda; 2020