Metadata: Collection of Church Registers
Collection
- Country:
- Slovakia
- Holding institution:
- State Archive in Prešov
- Holding institution (official language):
- Štátny archív v Prešove
- Postal address:
- Slovenská 40, Prešov, 080 01
- Phone number:
- 00421 51 773 30 05
- Web address:
- http://www.minv.sk/?archivy
- Email:
- archiv.po@minv.sk
- Reference number:
- 22718
- Title:
- Collection of Church Registers
- Title (official language):
- Zbierka cirkevných matrík
- Creator/accumulator:
- State Archive in Prešov
- Date(s):
- 1586/1952
- Language:
- Hungarian
- German
- Extent:
- 66.48 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds includes Jewish registers originating from the activities of the rabbinates, Jewish religious communities and Jewish register districts from the territory of the former Prešov region in 1949-60.
In total, 11 register books come from the rabbinate in Bardejov. Among them, the largest number of registers are kept for the town of Bardejov. There are registers of births from (1842-50 and 1854-95), marriages (1842-53, 1855-95 and 1920-1923), and deaths (1842-53 and 1859-95). For the other municipalities in the register district there are registers of births (1852-82) and marriages and deaths (1852-82 and 1886-95). The register books from the rabbinate in Bardejov also include copies of the registers. The first book, or file, has been preserved in the following manner: births and deaths from 1862-86 and marriages from 1875-86. The second book, or file, has been preserved from 1860-95 for all three types of records.
The fonds includes four register books including one copy from the rabbinate of the municipality of Brezovica (Sabinov district). Registers of births have been preserved from 1850-81 and 1886-95, marriages from 1882-95 and deaths from 1858-85. Copies of registers include all three types of registers from 1875-95.
From the rabbinate in the municipality of Čirč (Stará Lubovňa district) there are four books, including one copy. Registers of births have been preserved from 1874-1903, marriages from 1874-1941 and deaths from 1874-85. Copies of registers include all three types from 1875-95.
From the rabbinate in the town of Hanušovce nad Topľou (Vranov nad Topľou district), three books and one copy have been preserved. Registers of births cover 1858-95, marriages 1851-72 and deaths 1850-77. Copies of registers include all three types from 1860-94.
From the rabbinate in the town of Humenné, one register and one copy have been preserved. The original register includes records of births and deaths from 1851-85. Marriages are missing. Copies of registers contain records of births and marriages from 1882-95 and deaths from 1878-95.
From the rabbinate in the town of Kurima (Bardejov county) four books and one copy have been preserved. Registers of births and deaths have been preserved from 1851-95 and marriages from 1851-1920. Copies include all three types from 1861-93.
From the rabbinate in the municipality of Lemešany (Prešov district), nine books, including one copy, have been preserved. Registers of births have been preserved from 1851-1932, marriages from 1852-1921 and deaths from 1851-1901. Copies include all three types from 1860-95.
From the rabbinate in the town of Prešov, 18 books and two copies have been preserved. Registers are included in one group, and except for one book, it is not indicated which contain records of Orthodox or modern believers. In the earliest register there is also a record of the destruction of the old registers of the Jewish religious community in Prešov in a fire in May 1887. Registers of births have been preserved from 1826-1942, marriages from 1844-1942 and deaths from 1847-1942 (1946). Copies include all three types from 1876-95.
From the rabbinate in the town of Sabinov, 15 books, including one file of copies, have been preserved. Registers of births have been preserved from 1850-96 (1938-41), marriages from 1859-95 (1920-29) and deaths from 1858-1903.
Originals from the rabbinate in Sabinov also include the register of births of the Jewish religious community in the municipality of Horná Torysa from 1864-77 (1878), which contains records of believers in the Horná Torysa district. On the basis of additional identification, there is a handwritten note in the finding aid that in one register of births, containing records from 1886-1911 (1917, 1921, 1927), there are details of believers from the town of Lipany (Sabinov district) and its surroundings. Copies of registers contain records of births from 1860-95 and marriages and deaths from 1876-95.
From the rabbinate of the town of Stropkov, five books, including one copy, have been preserved. There are registers of births from 1851-1901, of marriages from 1886-95 and deaths from 1851-99. Copies include all three types from 1875-95.
From the rabbinate of the town of Svidník, only one file of copies has been preserved, containing records of births from 1862 and 1864 and marriages and deaths from 1886-95 (1862).
From the rabbinate in the municipality of Šarišské Lúky (now part of the town of Prešov) there are nine register books. They contain records of births from 1852-1940, marriages from 1854-95 and 1901-41 and deaths from 1851-95 and 1905-10 (1932).
From the rabbinate in the village of Široké (Prešov district) three register books, including one file of copies, have been preserved. Originals contain records of births from 1864-95 (1920-1935), marriages from 1866-85 and deaths from 1864-85. Copies include all three types from 1875-95.
From the rabbinate in the town of Veľký Šariš (Prešov district) one book of original registers of births from 1817-81 has been preserved.
From the rabbinate in the town of Vranov nad Topľou seven books of original registers have been preserved, containing records of births from 1840-67 and 1869-85 (1930-39) and marriages and deaths from 1840-95.
From the rabbinate in the town of Zborov (Bardejov district) two register books have been preserved. One, the original, contains records of births from 1885-95. The other is a copy containing records of births and deaths from 1876-95 and marriages from 1887-95.
- Archival history:
- The fonds is an artificially created collection which was created under Act no. 268/1949 Zb. z. Under the Act all the churches and Jewish registers were declared state property and, with effect from 1 January 1950, passed under the administration of national committees. From there, they began, since 1952, to be gradually moved to the former regional archives. Registers of Jewish religious communities were concentrated in the Central Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Bratislava, from where they were moved, in 1979, to the then State Regional Archives in Prešov. After being taken over, the fonds was completely catalogued in 1985-1988. Since individual documents were added to the fonds even later, it is currently classified as partially catalogued.
- Access points: locations:
- Bardejov
- Čirč
- Hanušovce nad Topľou
- Humenné
- Kurima
- Lemešany
- Lipany
- Prešov
- Sabinov
- Šarišské Lúky
- Široké
- Stropkov
- Svidník
- Veľký Šariš
- Vranov nad Topľou
- Zborov
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds consists of official books from 1587-1952 and registry finding aids from 1708-1942. The registers are organised in the catalogue in alphabetical order by municipalities, and within the municipalities according to individual confessions, and then chronologically. Each file of the registers, or a file of the copies, is a separate cataloguing unit.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Olejárová, J.: Zbierka cirkevných matrík 1592 – 1895, I. – IV. zväzok. Systematický katalóg, 1988, 576 s., ev. č. 2542, 2543.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18