Metadata: Mglin City Municipality
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Київ
- Postal address:
- 03110, м. Київ-110, вул. Солом'янська, 24
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-30-02
- Web address:
- cdiak.archives.gov.ua
- Email:
- mail.cdiak@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 789
- Title:
- Mglin City Municipality
- Title (official language):
- Мглинский городовой магистрат
- Creator/accumulator:
- Mglin City Municipality
- Date(s):
- 1794/1802
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 138 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
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The description below is based on a single catalogue entry that describes in general terms a group of institutionally related fonds, which are listed individually in the Yerusha database. The description covers material from the municipalities of Borzna, Bakhmut, Valki, Gadiach, Glukhov, Izium, Kozelets, Konotop, Kremenchug, Mglin, Mirgorod, Novoe Mesto, Romny, Starodub and Chernigov.
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Materials contained in the fond (individual files, scattered documents and fragments) reflect to some extent or another certain elements of the process by which Jews became Russian subjects in the territories of Left-Bank and Sloboda Ukraine and so-called Novorossiia [New Russia], the legal status they received in doing so, and various aspects of their relations with the local population. Especially significant among these are materials on the assignment of Jews from regions annexed from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to the merchant and townspeople’s [meshchanskoe] estates per a Senate edict of 23 June 1794, and on solving the various conflicts arising in this process; as well as similar materials from an earlier period. Among these are viceroyalty [namestnichestvo] administration edicts accepting Jews as local townspeople, or rejecting them in cases in which some obstruction for this existed, for instance, the absence of documentation of their being free of state or private arrears, or if they had been in debt in their previous place of residence; a certificate on the registering of Jewish townspeople of Khar’kov to Cossack regiments of the Khar’kov province, and on not including them, after the disbanding of these regiments, in the townsperson estate [meshchanstvo] due to an imperial edict forbidding this; files on individual Jews’ petitions for acceptance into the ranks of townspeople and merchants; and analogous materials on Jewish converts to Christianity who were accepted into these estates pursuant to imperial orders. There are files and individual documents on the establishment of kahals in places where a significant number of Jews resided. These contain references to Senate edicts of 23 June 1794 and 29 December 1796 granting Jews who had come from the Mogilev province to the Malorossiia [Little Russia] provinces, particularly to Novgorod-Severskii, the right to reside there; an edict of the Malorossiia Provincial Administration establishing kahals in all of the county seats of the province (or in settlements, in cases of counties in which Jews lived outside the main city), and stipulating that all Jews should be reregistered and allowed to vote in city elections and, with the consent of communities, to run for office; comments on the main goals of establishing kahals: to provide for the payment of taxes to the treasury, and allow Jews to “engage in legal proceedings according to Jewish law”; information on the kinds and amounts of exactions collected from Jews; and an enumeration of cities of the Chernigov province to which Jews wished to be assigned pursuant to the edict of 23 June 1794.
- Access points: locations:
- Chernigov province
- Khar’kov
- Mglin
- Mogilev province
- Novgorod-Severskii
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary