Metadata: Pertinence Archive, M General Cantonal Affairs, MM 1 Small Council
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of Zurich
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Zürich
- Postal address:
- Winterthurerstrasse 170, CH-8057 Zürich
- Phone number:
- +41 43 258 50 00
- Email:
- staatsarchivzh@ji.zh.ch
- Reference number:
- MM 1
- Title:
- Pertinence Archive, M General Cantonal Affairs, MM 1 Small Council
- Title (official language):
- Pertinenzarchiv, M Allgemeine kantonale Angelegenheiten, MM 1 Kleiner Rat
- Creator/accumulator:
- Small Council of Zurich
- Date(s):
- 1803/1824
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 113 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
In the Pertinence Archive, which contains the Cantonal Administration since 1803, there are numerous documents of interest from a Jewish point of view in the sub-division Small Council in section M General Cantonal Affairs. For example, a document from 1803 reports the sale of a property to Moses Wolf Dreyfuß. From the same year, an address of the heads of the craftsmen's guilds of Zurich and Winterthur concerns the re-establishment of the craftsmen's police, as well as a petition of several rural communities concerning the restriction of traffic for Jews. Another document from 1803 deals with the trade of Jews and the denial of customs duties for horses. From 1804, a bankruptcy edict of the K.K. Administration of the County of Hohenems provides details on the property of the Hohenems patron Jew Urban Joseph Levi. A decree from 1804 concerns the forbidden movement of Jews in debt and the establishment of wine warehouses forbidden to them in the city and canton of Zurich. Also from the year 1804 there is a document from the government of the Canton of St. Gallen, which reports on the two Moos brothers of Hohenems who were forbidden to enter the canton.
A rejection of an application by the Jew Bigart from Wangen for a peddler's patent in 1804 as well as several documents from 1805 that report the attempted collection of money from a Jew named Dreyfuß of Baden in Aargau are also included in the collection. From the following years numerous documents contain decrees and the like, which were mainly directed at Jewish traders. A document from 1808 reports on the Jews Moritz Bloch and Jacob Samuel, who were banished from the canton of Ticino. There were repeated notifications of Jews expelled from the country.
In 1817, a resolution concerns the contact of the Jew Marx Braunschweig of Lengnau with the insolvent Heinrich Ehrsam of Weinigen and the trade of Jews with Zurich citizens in general. There is also a settlement permit from 1820 for the Jew named Aaron Ris (Rieß) of Hinsingen in Alsace as well as several other documents. A letter to the Civil and Criminal Court for Vorarlberg in Feldkirch informs that no investigations are underway against Isaak Levi in the canton of Zurich. From 1824, a letter to the government of the Canton of Aargau requests the extradition of the Jew David Braunschweig.
[MM 1.1 RRB 1803/0089; MM 1.1 RRB 1803/0308; MM 1.2 RRB 1803/0460; MM 1.2 RRB 1803/0797; MM 1.5 RRB 1804/0257; MM 1.5 RRB 1804/0344; MM 1.7 RRB 1804/0771; MM 1.7 RRB 1804/0837; MM 1.7 RRB 1804/0889; MM 1.7 RRB 1804/0890; MM 1.7 RRB 1804/0891; MM 1.8 RRB 1804/1093; MM 1.8 RRB 1804/1119; MM 1.9 RRB 1804/1468; MM 1.9 RRB 1804/1510; MM 1.11 RRB 1805/0145; MM 1.12 RRB 1805/0178; M 1.12 RRB 1805/0203; MM 1.12 RRB 1805/0296; MM 1.12 RRB 1805/0313; MM 1.13 RRB 1805/0569; MM 1.13 RRB 1805/0634; MM 1.13 RRB 1805/0635; MM 1.15 RRB 1805/1575; MM 1.15 RRB 1805/1806; MM 1.17 RRB 1806/0442; MM 1.25 RRB 1808/0652; MM 1.25 RRB 1808/0680; MM 1.26 RRB 1808/0850; MM 1.26 RRB 1808/1019; MM 1.26 RRB 1808/1050; MM 1.26 RRB 1808/1143; MM 1.27 RRB 1808/1241; MM 1.29 RRB 1809/0499; MM 1.29 RRB 1809/0518; MM 1.29 RRB 1809/0902; MM 1.30 RRB 1809/1279; MM 1.31 RRB 1810/0084; MM 1.31 RRB 1810/0231; MM 1.32 RRB 1810/0330; MM 1.32 RRB 1810/0374; MM 1.32 RRB 1810/0451; MM 1.34 RRB 1810/1179; MM 1.42 RRB 1812/0883; MM 1.49 RRB 1814/0480; MM 1.55 RRB 1815/0950; MM 1.59 RRB 1816/0774; MM 1.59 RRB 1816/0820; MM 1.64 RRB 1817/0975; MM 1.64 RRB 1817/1002; MM 1.65 RRB 1817/1038; MM 1.71 RRB 1819/0837; MM 1.73 RRB 1820/0271; MM 1.73 RRB 1820/0381; MM 1.73 RRB 1820/0452; MM 1.77 RRB 1821/0601; MM 1.78 RRB 1821/0975; MM 1.82 RRB 1823/0235; MM 1.86 RRB 1824/0202; MM 1.87 RRB 1824/0300; MM 1.87 RRB 1824/0555; MM 1.89 RRB 1824/0911; MM 1.97 RRB 1826/1036; MM 1.105 RRB 1829/0114]
- Archival history:
- The collection was probably gradually transferred to the State Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The State Archive of Zurich is the archive of the Swiss Canton of Zurich and its legal predecessors, in particular the City State of Zurich. The historical holdings of the State Archive date back to the year 853 - the founding charter of the Fraumünster is the oldest surviving document - and have a significance that extends far beyond the canton. The continuity of tradition is considered remarkable, thanks to the absence of major catastrophes and wars. For example, the series of governmental minutes (Small Council and Grand Council), with few gaps, dates back to the early 14th century. The more recent holdings of the Canton of Zurich (since 1831) form the bulk of the archive holdings in terms of quantity, comprising some 30 kilometres of files and documents, to which a few terabytes of electronic data material are added.
- Access points: locations:
- St Gallen
- Winterthur
- Zurich
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available, although the information is often rudimentary.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://suche.staatsarchiv.djiktzh.ch/volltextsuche.aspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020
