Metadata: Bratslav Viceroyalty Administration
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. 212
- Title:
- Bratslav Viceroyalty Administration
- Title (official language):
- Брацлавское наместническое правление
- Creator/accumulator:
- Bratslav Viceroyalty Administration
- Date(s):
- 1796/1797
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- German
- Turkish
- Extent:
- 16 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 Viceroyalty Administration of Bratslav, Voznesensk and Podolia. Information known to refer to the Bratslav Viceroyalty Administration fond in particular is mentioned in the final paragraph.
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Some of the documents included in the fond reflect the tsarist government’s stance vis-à-vis the Jewish population of regions that became part of Russia after the second and third partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as the everyday life of this population, and in particular, the economic and legal relations between Jews and non-Jews. Among these materials are recommendations that general censuses be taken of the population in counties newly annexed to the provinces; that city registers [gorodskie obyvatel’skie knigi] be compiled more quickly; that all kahals besides county ones be unconditionally eliminated; and that Jews who had not yet resettled to area cities be registered with kahals to ensure “their correct payment of state taxes”. These recommendations were “given to prevent losses to state income,” particularly in connection with the petitions of numerous Jewish communities that their tax burden be lessened. There are also materials on the conduct of poll-tax and other censuses; on compiling poll-tax censuses and registers; instructions to city kahals “not to make Russian vodka, beer, mead, or other illicit drinks”; documents on Jews’ receipt of debts and funds from tax-farming and lease-holding; on the arrest of Jews for not having passports required for residence; on Jews suffering material and non-pecuniary damages; etc.
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Particular to the Bratslav Viceroyalty Administration is correspondence regarding the complaint of the kahal of the town of Makhnovka (Bratslav viceroyalty) that the Makhnovka City Municipality had exceeded its authority in the area of tax collection.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
