Metadata: Collection of Presents and Purchases
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Inter-Municipal Historical Archives “Šabac“
- Holding institution (official language):
- Међуопштински историјски архив „Шабац (Međuopštinski istorijski arhiv „Šabac“)
- Postal address:
- Vojvode Mišića 18, 15 000 Šabac, Republic of Serbia
- Phone number:
- (+381) 15 354 992
- Web address:
- https://arhivsabac.org.rs/
- Email:
- arhivsabac@gmail.com
- Reference number:
- MOIAS-PO
- Title:
- Collection of Presents and Purchases
- Title (official language):
- Збирка поклона и откупа
- Creator/accumulator:
- Inter-Municipal Historical Archives “Šabac“
- Date(s):
- 1738/1992
- Language:
- Serbian
- Turkish
- German
- Russian
- Greek, Modern (1453-)
- Extent:
- 2.45 linear metres (20 boxes and 2 administrative books)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection represents an extremely rich resource for studying the persons and events in Šabac and Podrinje in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to textual material, the collection includes photographs, diplomas, pamphlets and newspapers.
The material relating to Jews covers a vast period and territory. Some of the records kept in the Archives represented the earliest testimonies associated with the Jewish community in Šabac, such as the letter of Petar Alimpić, dated 14 May 1851, dispatched from Šabac to Cvetko Rajović, the member of the Supreme Court, informing him that he forwarded him 1,839 Austrian cvanciks by Isak Albama, the Jew. Petar Alimpić dispatched another letter, dated 26 January 1852, and informed Cvetko Rajović that he had forwarded him 2,800 imperial ducats for the house obligation, by Moreno Koen. It proved that Petar Alimpić trusted both Jews mentioned in the letters, because they were entrusted with significant sums of money.
Some of the records described the organisation and the religious life of Jews in Šabac. Radivoje Milojković, the secretary of the District Court in Šabac, communicated a letter to the Ministry of Justice and requested it to provide documents associated with the real estate which the Jews of Šabac purchased for the synagogue. The letter was dated 24 March 1864, which makes it the oldest document referring to the synagogue in Šabac (today the Museum of the Jews of Šabac is housed in the building of the former synagogue).
The collection also includes records related to the activity of the Serbian-Jewish Association of Friendship, i.e. its branch in Šabac, which was active in the period 1990 to 1992, such as: The Association Itinerary; admission form; financial report (April 1990 - June 1991); work report; activities on the rearrangement and reconstruction of the Jewish cemetery in Šabac; exhibitions, literary evenings; newspaper articles associated with the work of the branch; correspondence, etc.
The collection furthermore includes material related to some famous Jews of Šabac, such as the doctor Alfred Bata Koen, dated 1928, or the famous Vinaver family described in the manuscript of the journalist Radivoje Markovic.
- Archival history:
- The collection was formed in the Archives in the early 1970s from documents acquired as gifts and purchases. The collection comprises documents associated with Šabac and the District of Mačva, with the prominent individuals from Šabac and Serbia, which could not be catalogued in the existing archival fonds. Some of the records kept in the Collection were considered to be the oldest documents in the Archives in Šabac. Apart from the textual material, the Collection also includes photographs, diplomas, pamphlets and newspapers.
- Access points: locations:
- Šabac
- Subject terms:
- Synagogues
- System of arrangement:
- The collection has been catalogued and arranged.
- Finding aids:
- An analytical inventory exists.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Ivan Dosković; Inter-Municipal Historical Archives “Šabac“; 2021