Metadata: Annual reports of Jews in Swedish cities 1777-1859
Collection
- Country:
- Sweden
- Holding institution:
- Swedish National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Riksarkivet
- Postal address:
- Box 12541, 102 29 Stockholm
- Phone number:
- + 46 (0)10 4767000
- Web address:
- https://riksarkivet.se
- Email:
- riksarkivet@riksarkivet.se
- Reference number:
- SE/RA/420132/3
- Title:
- Annual reports of Jews in Swedish cities 1777-1859
- Title (official language):
- Årsberättelser Judar i städerna 1777-1859
- Creator/accumulator:
- National Board of Trade in Sweden (Kommerskollegium)
- Date(s):
- 1777/1859
- Language:
- Swedish
- Extent:
- 0.3 linear metres (3 volumes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection consists of three volumes of annual population reports from the Jewish communities of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Norrköping. These were the three cities where Jews were permitted to settle and pursue work and commerce according to a royal decree that regulated Jewish immigration and life in Sweden (Judereglementet) issued by king Gustav III in 1782. The second (1827-1836) and third (1837-1859) volumes include population reports from Carlskrona, which would become an additional hub for Jews after the settlement of Fabian Phillip there in 1782. The reports were compiled by each city’s Jewish community representatives, validated by city officials and sent to the National Board of Trade (Kommerskollegium). All three volumes demonstrate gaps in annual statistics for all four cities, with Norrköping having the most complete collection of annual population reports across all three volumes. Jewish community members are referred to as ‘members of the Jewish Nation’.
The annual population reports are divided into two sections: the first section contains numerical data classified by gender, age, marital status and household adherence. The first volume (1777-1820) contains lists of household names, while the second and third volumes contain more extensive population registers of individual Jewish community members by first and last name. This section also includes information on the professions of Jewish community members. These are classified according to the following categories: wholesale traders (grosshandel), retail traders (minutihandel), manufacturers (fabriquerörelse), servants (betjenter), hired labourers (tjänstehjon) and miscellaneous professions (diversenäringar). The latest category encompasses a number of decree-regulated professions that did not comply with any of the previous classifications. These included artistry, engraving, gem cutting, design and architecture, embroidery, cork cutting and instrument repair. The category does not list these professions individually, but rather refers to the collectively as miscellaneous professions. The second section contains numerical data on births and deaths per month. Births are listed according to gender and legitimacy (äkta or oäkta), while deaths are listed according to gender, age and marital status.
- Archival history:
- The collection is part of the archive of the National Board of Trade, which was founded in 1651. The archive is located at the Swedish National Archives in Marieberg, Stockholm.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- When a royal decree that regulated Jewish immigration and life in Sweden (Judereglementet) was issued in 1782 the National Board of Trade was assigned to the administration of the Jewish population. According to the decree Jews were only allowed to live in Stockholm, Göteborg and Norrköping, and through a concession given to a Jewish merchant and industrialist, Fabian Philip, in Karlskrona in Sweden.
- Access points: locations:
- Stockholm
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- This collection is part of the National Board of Trade’s (Kommerkollegium) Tax Collection Office (Kammarkontoret) archive. The index can be found in a folder in the archive and in the archive’s online database, NAD (Nationell Arkivdatabas).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum in Stockholm