Metadata: Confirmation books 1895-1943
Collection
- Country:
- Sweden
- Holding institution:
- Swedish National Archives in Täby
- Holding institution (official language):
- Riksarkivet Täby
- Postal address:
- Box 12541, 102 29 Stockholm
- Phone number:
- 010-476 70 00
- Web address:
- https://riksarkivet.se/startpage
- Email:
- riksarkivet@riksarkivet.se
- Reference number:
- SE/RA/730128/02/D_I/1
- Title:
- Confirmation books 1895-1943
- Title (official language):
- Konfirmationsböcker 1895-1943
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish community of Stockholm
- Date(s):
- 1895/1943
- Language:
- Swedish
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection is part of the Jewish community in Stockholm’s records on their population between 1822 and 2000 (SE/RA730128/02), including collections on members, non-members, births, confirmations, marriages, deaths, funerals, and people moving in or out of Stockholm. The records often include information on nationality, family members and professions as well. This specific collection is the Jewish community’s confirmation book. It contains the names of children who had a confirmation service at the Mosaic Congregation between 1895 and 1943. The confirmation service was associated with the Reform movement.
The register is a bound leather book, and its pre-printed information scheme is arranged by year. Through an empty space in the left top corner, each page spread provides opportunity for the record keeper to allocate the following information to a specific year. Each spread also has an allocated number. The pre-printed form provides space to enter the following information for each child that attended the confirmation in the Reform community: the allocated number of each child (which inevitably provides the number of confirmed children each year); the date of the confirmation service (month and day); the name of the child (first name and surname); the child’s birth date (year, day and month); the home town of the child (if not Stockholm); the child’s family page in the Jewish community’s community book; the name and professions of the parents; and other notes (on issues such as certificates and questions of membership in the Jewish community).
The information was entered with a black ink pen, in handwriting, and it is easy to read. The information on parents is more often than not left unfilled. Stockholm is noted as the hometown for the majority of the children, but some children were noted to have other hometowns. Suburbs of Stockholm are mentioned (such as Djursholm, Nacka and Saltsjöbaden), as well as Swedish towns (such as Uppsala, Malmköping, Gothenburg, Falun, Karlskrona, Hudiksvall, Karlstad, Gävle, Norrköping, Kristianstad and Oskarshamn) and international cities (such as Riga, Helsinki, Libau, Felz/Felsch, Nacka, Plissa, Grodno, Dorpat, Baltimore, Odessa, Kiev, Jekaterinaslaw, Paris, Riga, Kurland, and Hamburg, as well as various cities in the Russian Empire). This section is, however, also sometimes used to notify the child’s city of birth, rather than the child’s city of residence. The children’s residence addresses are also sometimes noted in the last section on other notes.
- Archival history:
- The material in this collection was created by the Jewish community of Stockholm and transferred to the Swedish National Archives in 1979.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
This collection was created by the Jewish community council in Stockholm, which was led by communally elected representatives who in turn appointed the executive board. The board members were often individuals of high socio-economic rank, both within the Jewish community itself and the larger Swedish society.
The population records date from 1822 to 2000. They include information on members, non-members, births, confirmations, marriages, deaths, funerals, and people moving in or out of Stockholm. The population lists were drafted, and names were added over time. In some cases, they were rewritten to allow for better representation and ease of reading.
- Subject terms:
- Children
- Jewish community records
- Reform Judaism
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the collection is restricted to researchers. Permission is required and should be obtained in advance. Applications are made to the Swedish National Archives, which reviews them on behalf of the Jewish community of Stockholm, which makes the decision. The form and instructions can be accessed on the homepage of the Jewish Community of Stockholm: https://jfst.se/fler-tjaenster/oevriga-tjaenster/slaekt-och-personforskning/
- Finding aids:
- The archive that this collection is a part of has been indexed by the archivists Lars Hallberg and Mikaela Nybohm of the Swedish National Archives. The index can be found in a folder at the archive and in the archive’s database NAD (Nationell Arkivdatabas).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum in Stockholm
- Author of the description:
- Maja Hultman; Jewish Museum of Stockholm; June 2020
