The Zamojskis

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Київ

Scope and content:: Included are privileges granted by Crown Chancellor and Crown Hetman Jan Zamojski to Jews of the town of Zamość, and a petition by Christian merchants, owners of leather-goods storehouses, to J. Zamojski requesting that he forbid Jews to sell leather goods there; contracts between members of the Zamojski family or their estate stewards and Jews for the rental of factories, taverns, and liquor licences; court files on debts and reciprocal claims of Jewish renters and the counts Zamojski; lists of goods on offer from Jewish merchants; etc.

Administrative/biographical history:: Representatives of the Zamojskis, a Polish gentry family, occupied various governmental and administrative posts in state institutions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries (and in the nineteenth, of the Russian Empire) and played an important role in the public, political, and cultural life of the country. A considerable number of Jews resided in towns and estates belonging to the counts Zamojski in Podolia and Volhynia in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries, and the Zamojskis maintained close economic relations with them.

Subject terms:: Financial matters; Financial matters--Debt; Hospitality industry; Hospitality industry--Inns; Legal matters; Personal records; Privileges; Trade and commerce; Trade and commerce--Alcohol trade

System of arrangement:: The fond includes two inventories systematised chronologically (op. 1) and by subject (op. 2).