Metadata: Malin Rabbinate
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. 1241
- Title:
- Malin Rabbinate
- Title (official language):
- Малинский раввинат
- Creator/accumulator:
- Malin Rabbinate
- Date(s):
- 1846/1862
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 55 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 rabbinates of Berdichev, Boguslav, Vasil’kovo, Gornostaipol’, Zvenigorod, Ivankovo, Kiev, Korostyshev, Lipovets, Malin, Pereiaslav, Radomysl’, Skvira, Tarashcha, Uman’, Khabno, Cherkassy and Chernobyl’.
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The fond comprises vital records (“copybooks for records” [tetradi dlia zapisei]) of Jewish communities of a number of cities and towns of the Kiev province. These vital records indicate the date of the event being registered (according to the Julian and Jewish calendars); the name of the rabbi or rabbi’s assistant performing the ritual; names of newborns and their parents; names of deceased persons (along with cause of death and place of burial); and the names of persons getting married or divorced and of their witnesses, and their occupation or the estate to which they belonged. A separate numeration was kept for each gender, and at the end of each month and year, quantitative tallies were made.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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In the Russian Empire, the traditional religious and legislative institution of Jewish community life, the rabbinate, underwent a significant transformation. Per the 1804 Statute on the Jews, rabbis were elected by community members (for a three-year term) and approved by provincial authorities. Their functions included “supervising rituals, and adjudicating all disputes pertaining to religion.” The 1835 Statute on the Jews enjoined rabbis “to direct Jews to follow their moral duties, to obey general state laws and the judgments of the authorities.” The same statute also charged rabbis with keeping Jewish communities’ vital records of births (as well as circumcisions for boys and namings for girls), marriages, divorces, and deaths in a special state-approved format, in Russian and Hebrew in parallel.
Formerly the only acts of civil status the Russian authorities had required of Jews were the so-called “poll tax censuses” [revizskie skazki]. Every year, rabbis – from the mid-nineteenth century on this was typically community or crown [kazennye] rabbis – had to provide all vital records to the requisite county and provincial administrations for storage, and so their accuracy could be verified. These books, which served as the basis for issuing birth certificates to Jews, were kept in the territory of Ukraine until 1919 (in some places later), when, pursuant to the Temporary Workers’ and Peasants’ Government of Ukraine decree “On the separation of church and state, and of school and church” and subsequent legislation, all functions pertaining to the registration of acts of civil status were transferred to special state entities (ZAGS departments).
- Access points: locations:
- Kiev province
- Malin
- System of arrangement:
- Files in the fond (whose designation is conventional, as it may combine collections of vital records of Jewish communities of nearby cities and towns) are typically systematised by vital record type, as well as by population center and chronologically.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary