Metadata: Collections, Reproductions, TAI Turicensia in Other Institutions and Private Property
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:
- TAI
- Title:
- Collections, Reproductions, TAI Turicensia in Other Institutions and Private Property
- Title (official language):
- Sammlungen, Reproduktionen, TAI Turicensia in anderen Institutionen sowie Privatbesitz
- Date(s):
- 1647/1940s
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 903 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The Collections section of the State Archive of Zurich contains numerous reproductions, some of which are also relevant from a Jewish perspective. For example, there are annual records from 1647 and 1671 and an entry in the church register of the city of Winterthur about a baptised Jew from 1565, as well as a reproduction from the city archive of Zurich from 1797 about the marriage of the Jew Salomon Polak of Baisingen and the Christian woman Barbara Bänninger. From the 1930s and 1940s, there are recounts and excerpts from council books, legal codes and other sources of the State Archive concerning Jews in Zurich in the late Middle Ages.
[TAI 1.707; ERKGA Fällanden IV A 1 (S. 34); TAI 1.707; ERKGA Fällanden IV A 1 (S. 104-108); TAI 1.725; StadtA Winterthur B 3 m/1; TAI 1.846 (Teil 2); StadtAZH VIII.C. 110., EDB 1052 ; TAI 3.63; StAAG NL.A-0329]
- 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:
- Winterthur
- Zurich
- Subject terms:
- Conversion to Christianity
- Interfaith marriage
- Legal matters
- 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