Metadata: Provenance Archive, Directorates and State Chancellery
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:
- Z
- Title:
- Provenance Archive, Directorates and State Chancellery
- Title (official language):
- Provenienzarchiv, Direktionen und Staatskanzlei
- Creator/accumulator:
- State Chancellery
- Date(s):
- 1916/2006
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 5,417 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
In the Provenance Archive of the State Archive of Zurich, the section Directorates and State Chancellery contains a large number of documents relevant for Jewish history in various sub-divisions. There are files on the establishment of a Jewish reading room, a library and rooms for associations in the years 1919 to 1921, a file on a cooperative Jewish butcher's shop and sausage factory in Zurich in the years 1916 to 1930 and on another butcher's shop from 1931 to 1949.
Other files deal with the Protestant proselytising of the Jews, a fine for not specifying the printing house on a leaflet entitled “Wir Christen und die Juden“ (We Christians and the Jews) from 1931, a false report about the admission of a Jewish sporting event at the Zurich city hall in 1941-1942 etc.
There are also collection permits for distressed French Jews and other Jewish refugees as well as documents on other charitable work by Jewish associations and the community itself during the Second World War. It further contains files with documents from the period after 1945, including information on the Zurich Israelite School Association and copies of the magazine “Neues Israel“ from 1949 to 2006.
[Z 2.520; Z 2.1105; Z 2.2043; Z 2.2994; Z 2.3022; Z 5.717; Z 5.1968; Z 6.1181; Z 6.2102; Z 6.4272; Z 6.4283; Z 6.4327; Z 6.4428; Z 6.4449; Z 6.5498; Z 6.5504; Z 6.5612; Z 6.5650; Z 6.6088; Z 6.6090; Z 6.6480; Z 6.6538; Z 6.6112; Z 30.13; Z 33.194; Z 42.6624; Z 44.2256; Z 70.1240; Z 70.1399; Z 70.1876; Z 70.2166; Z 70.3091; Z 70.3091 (S. 13-28); Z 70.3091 (S. 93-116); Z 70.3091 (S. 117-132); Z 70.3091 (S. 133-146); Z 70.3091 (S. 147-160); Z 70.3092 (S. 63-78); Z 70.3092 (S. 131-154); Z 70.3092 (S. 171-186); Z 70.3093 (S. 105-124); Z 70.3098 (S. 233-305); Z 91.114; Z 146.108; Z 231.530; Z 363.1049; Z 394.713; Z 395.9109; Z 415.862; Z 823.150; Z 823.254; Z 833.96]
- 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:
- 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