Metadata: Olyka (Dubno County) 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. 30
- Title:
- Olyka (Dubno County) City Hall
- Title (official language):
- Олыкская ратуша Дубенского повета
- Creator/accumulator:
- Olyka (Dubno County) City Hall
- Date(s):
- 1786/1799
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Polish
- Extent:
- 9 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 Olyka (Dubno County) City Hall fond in particular is mentioned in the final paragraph.
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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 Olyka (Dubno County) City Hall is a 1796 name register of the Jewish population of the town of Olyka broken down into merchants, townspeople, and guild members, indicating homes belonging to these people and their type of occupation, and listing their family members and servants.
Also included are an edict of the Volhynia Provincial Administration regarding a complaint filed by the Jewish community of the town of Olyka against the local Christian community, which had demanded that taxes on homes, shops, stores, etc. be levied from Jews “according to former custom,” and which had used this and other income without the knowledge or consent of the Jewish community, contrary to statutes introduced after “the annexation of this territory to the Russian state”. This contains a statement to the effect that at the time of this annexation, Jews made up a fifth of the merchants and townspeople of this territory; and a statute on cities and other documents according to which Jewish merchants and townspeople were equal in rights to Christian ones, and had received the right to be elected to municipality courts and city halls.
More documents include records on the election and confirmation of city hall members, including, at the Olyka City Hall in 1798, of one Jew each among three mayors and three councilmen, and of two Jews among five ława members; a joint petition by Christian and Jewish townspeople of Olyka for the right to receive passage tickets not at the county treasury, but at the local city hall; and a brief geographical description by the Lutsk county land surveyor of the town of Olyka indicating the number of Jewish homes.
- Access points: locations:
- Korsun’
- Olyka
- Volhynia
- Zaslav county
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
