Metadata: Association of Craftsmen for the County of Stari Bečej
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archives of Senta
- Holding institution (official language):
- Историјски архив Сента (Istorijski arhiv Senta); Történelmi Levéltár Zenta
- Postal address:
- Glavnitrg 1|II, 24 400 Senta, Republic of Serbia
- Phone number:
- (+381) 24 811-037
- Web address:
- https://www.zentarhiv.rs/
- Email:
- zentarhiv@gmail.com
- Reference number:
- F. 400
- Title:
- Association of Craftsmen for the County of Stari Bečej
- Title (official language):
- Удружење занатлија за срез старобечејски, Стари Бечеј
- Creator/accumulator:
- Association of Craftsmen for the County of Stari Bečej [Óbecsei Ipartestület, Óbecse]
- Date(s):
- 1885/1950
- Language:
- Serbian
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 9.9 linear metres (90 administrative books and 39 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The documents created by the Association of Craftsmen for the County of Stari Bečej includes information on the Jewish craftsmen working in the territory of Stari Bečej. The fonds comprises administrative books and records.
Administrative books cover the period from 1885 to 1951, containing: minutes from the sessions of assembly and board, register of sessions of the executive board, record-keeping protocols, main directory of members, register of crafts with accompanying indexes, registers of craftsmen by profession, records of owners of threshers, index of craftsmen, work permits and cancellation of practice, minutes of passing master and assistant exams, registers of employed assistants, register of assistants’ booklets, photo album of assistants, directory and register of labour booklets, registers of released students, registers of student contracts, student indices, minutes of exhibited student works, finance books, membership fee book. The records preserved in the fonds contain data on the registration of shops, transcripts of work permits for crafts and commerce, copies of decisions on work and termination of work, employment contracts, payrolls, documentation on taking the master's and assistant exams, student contracts.
Data on the Jewish craftsmen of Stari Bečej were found in the following material: book number 16, Record-Keeping Protocol, 1937, 12 entries: execution of the Law on Jews, various applications, assistant exams, dismissal of ‘Jewish intelligentsia’ from the service, sequestration of Jewish property, closure of shops, collection of membership fees from Jewish members, data on Jewish craftsmen; book number 18, Index to the Record-Keeping Protocol, 1940/1944, 20 entries: licenses for crafts, procurement of raw materials, execution of the Law on Jews, dismissal of the ‘intelligentsia’, registration of property, closure of shops; box number 97, 1941/1942, Administrative record: list of upholsterers, craftsmen assistants’ contracts, registration of a goldsmith's shop, Law on Jews; box number 98, 1943, Administrative records: data on apprentices; box number 99, 1944, Administrative records: permits, notices, data on dismissal of employed Jews, closure of shops, work of a lumber-yard under supervision, collection of membership fees from Jewish members, records of Jewish craftsmen, assistant exam; box number 108, 1941/1944, Craftsmen assistants’ exams; box number 109, 1944/1946, Craftsmen assistants’ exams.
- Archival history:
- The records, almost complete and unarranged, were transferred to the Archives in 1963 from the County Crafts Chamber in Novi Sad. The Archives took over the material found in the premises of the Chamber and added it to the fonds. In the following years it was grouped, arranged and finding aids compiled.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Associations of craftsmen as interested communities were founded in these areas, thus in Bačko Potisje, after the XVIII Law was adopted in the Assembly of Hungary in 1884, under the name “Ipartörvény”. They operated under various socio-political circumstances in several state formations. Their goal was always the same, only their name changed during each socio-political upheaval. The Association of the Craftsmen for the County of Stari Bečej, “ Óbecsei Ipartestület”, was founded in 1885. After WWI it changed its name to the Craft Guild Stari Bečej. From 1927 it operated as the Crafts Association. The next change of name was in 1932. From that year, all craftsmen were required to join the Association of Craftsmen in Stari Becej. In 1941 it returned to its previous name “Óbecsei Ipartestület”; in 1943 some organisational changes occurred and it briefly operated under the name “Óbecse és Vidéke Ipartestület”. At the end of 1944, it operated for a short time under the name of the Association of Craftsmen in Stari Bečej, and the following year it changed it to the Association of Craftsmen of the County of Stari Bečej. The Association ceased to operate in 1950 in line with the General Law on Crafts, which was passed in 1949.
- Access points: locations:
- Stari Bečej
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged thematically and chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- A summary catalogue with administrative history exists.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Ištvan Fodor; Historical Archives of Senta; 2020
