Metadata: Association of Craftsmen, Senta
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. 423
- Title:
- Association of Craftsmen, Senta
- Title (official language):
- Удружење занатлија, Сента
- Creator/accumulator:
- Association of Craftsmen, Senta
- Date(s):
- 1820/1952
- Language:
- Serbian
- Hungarian
- German
- Extent:
- 10.3 linear metres (103 administrative books and 56 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The records created by the Association of Craftsmen in Senta comprises administrative books and documents, which include information on the Jewish craftsmen working and living in the territory of Senta. The books were created in the period from 1820 to 1952 and include guild books, minutes of the sessions of the assembly and the board of directors, registers, index of registers, general ledger, cashier daily report, membership fees, registers of craftsmen, evidence of members, master's exams book, evidence book of craft works, of assistants, assistants’ exams, student contracts, list of students, released labour booklets, books of the artisan dilettante society and the reading circle. The records, created in the period from 1888 to 1950, comprise: normative acts, reports, requests, permits to register shops, minutes from the assistants’ exams, students’ apprentice contracts, labour booklets.
The majority of data related to Jews can be found in the following archival units: number 22, Record-Keeping Protocol, 1940/1945, including documents on working hours of shops, on passing assistants’ exams, closing of mills, of craft shops, implementation of the Law on Jews; number 38, Cashier Daily Report, 1930/1936 and 1941/1942, including 152 names of Jewish craftsmen; number 39, Cashier Daily Report, 1942/1951 with 106 names; number 48, Basic Book of Membership Fees, 1944/1950 with 43 names; number 50, Register of Craftsmen by Crafts, 1943, 34 craftsmen and 17 crafts; number 51, Register of Craftsmen by Crafts, 1942/1946, 35 craftsmen and 17 crafts; number 74, Evidence Book of Craftsmen’s Assistants, 1939/1942, 48 names; number 75, Evidence Book of Craftsmen’s Assistants, 1942/1944, 22 names; number 76, Evidence of Employees, 1942/1947, 18 names.
- Archival history:
- The incomplete and unarranged documents were transferred to the Archives on 29 March 1978 from the Chamber of Commerce of the County Subotica – Commission in Senta. The next transfer was registered on the 3 March 1979. In the following years the records were grouped, catalogued, and finding aids compiled. Eight guild books created in the period 1820-1886 were preserved and registered in the Summary catalogue, ref. nos. 1-7. Record-keeping protocols of the Association of Craftsmen, 1948-1950, are kept in the archival fonds F.009 for technical reasons. The books of the Association are complete, the records incomplete.
- 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 Craftsmen in Senta was established in 1886 under the name “Zentai Ipartestület”; it came under the authority of the Crafts Chamber of Segedin. After WWI it changed its name to Crafts Association of Senta and operated within the framework of the legislation of the new state. It kept its books in Serbian. From April 1944 it became “Zenta Város Ipartestülete”. It operated within the Hungarian legislation and kept its books in Hungarian. Based on the order of the Subotica City Command Ref. No. 306, the foundation session of the Association of Craftsmen in Senta was held from 14 December 1945 until 14 August 1950.
- Access points: locations:
- Senta
- 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
