Metadata: Kanev City Hall
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. 1103
- Title:
- Kanev City Hall
- Title (official language):
- Каневская городовая ратуша
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kanev City Hall
- Date(s):
- 1808/1835
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Polish
- Extent:
- 12 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 city halls of Kanev, Olgopol’, Olyka (Dubno County) and Uman’. Information known to refer to the Kanev City Hall fond in particular is mentioned in the final paragraphs.
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The fond contains documents in Russian, Hebrew (signatures) and Polish (with a Russian translation), which include edicts and circulars of imperial and provincial administrations, logs and minutes of city hall sessions, records of city hall rulings and of incoming and outgoing documents, etc. Materials on the Jewish population comprise scattered records and individual files and fragments, including the following documents:
edicts, orders, proposals, and announcements of local authorities and higher and other institutions, city hall reports and instructions, and other documents, as well as accounts and mentions in logs and in edict and current correspondence registries, on issues pertaining to the Jewish population of Right-Bank Ukraine and of particular cities and towns; for example, on call-ups of conscripts whose “turn had come up”; on merchants and townspeople, including Jews, submitting applications for membership in the merchant estate and for registration in guilds and city resident lists; on the amount and conditions of annual payments to be made by those registered in guilds per the City Statute of 1785 and imperial edicts, and in particular, on a 23 May 1794 edict setting taxes to be collected from Jews wishing to engage in townsperson or merchant business at twice the amount paid by Christians, and allowing Jews not wishing to remain in Russia to leave the empire after paying three years’ worth of this double tax; on requests by individual Jews to be released from the merchant estate, from tax-farming positions, and from rental agreements and contracts, in particular due to obstructions caused by officials; and records on the issuance of documentation to Jewish merchants in receipt of trade licenses for 1829 from the Boguslav County Treasury (with guild indicated).
Also included is an edict of the Volhynia Provincial Administration apportioning monetary excises “toward military needs” among all the province’s city residents, indicating amounts to be collected from each townsperson and merchant (in the case of the latter, this amount depended on the size of their declared capital holdings) and the number of Christian and Jewish merchants in Zhitomir, Novograd-Volhynskii, Ostrog, and Zaslav counties; an edict of the Kiev Provincial Administration stipulating that Jews should maintain postal stations; a record of the receipt of an edict of the Volhynia Provincial Administration of 31 January 1798 (with a citation to an enclosed copy of a Senate edict) that city benefits and privileges be provided to Jews as well as other subjects; as pertains to the official activities of Jews in elective positions: records on the election and confirmation of city hall members, and of kahal agents to collect civil excises and supervise a unit of the land police; a proposal of the Kiev military governor that information be provided on Jews in military service who had not converted to Christianity; and a proposal to collect state taxes and arrears from Jews, and also, in connection with this, to control Jews’ changes of places of residence, including an edict of the Kiev Provincial Administration on a report of the Zvenigorod Lower Land Court on Jews “who had dispersed from that county and live in various places,” with a request that these persons be sent without fail to their previous places of residence to pay state taxes.
Other documents contain information on the issuance of passports, tickets, and leave certificates for journeys of other purposes; materials on criminal cases: on the debts of the Korsun’ kahal, including numerous declarations of bankruptcy of Korsun’ Jews; on thefts, robberies, affronts, and other acts of violence. There are also petitions by individual Jews for various things: deferment of payments; tax-farming leases, and the allocation of plots of land; etc.
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Particular to the Kanev City Hall are clarifications of the conditions by which merchants and Jews could make monetary payments in lieu of delivering conscripts; announcements exempting some of these from such payments; instructions [1827-28] that the Jewish community of Kanev should promptly fulfil its obligation to supply actual conscripts; and citations of edicts promulgated on these issues: a Senate edict of 7 September 1794 and an imperial manifesto of 1 January 1807); and information on the issuance to representatives of the Kanev kahal of permits for trips to various places in order to find Jews assigned to this kahal who had absented themselves or “wandered off” [razbredshikhsia] and collect taxes from these persons.
Also included are minutes of sessions and a ruling of the Kanev City Hall relating to a conflict that had turned into a fight between Kanev Jews and a neighbourhood commissioner who had ordered the dismantling and removal of “wooden huts” Jews had built during the religious holiday of Sukkoth; on the rude behaviour of a clerk of this city hall named Kryzhanovskii and his threats against and affronts to Jewish members of the city hall, including with regards to religion and ethnicity; and on this person’s subsequent conflict with a Jewish council member named Gal’pern involving analogous insults; and a statement on the hearing of a case involving the baptism of Jewish arrestees named Zaslavskii and Bekker by the Kanev hundred-man [sotskii].
- Access points: locations:
- Kanev
- Korsun’
- Volhynia
- Zaslav county
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary