Metadata: Materials of Judicial Institutions of Ukraine (collection)
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. 1254
- Title:
- Materials of Judicial Institutions of Ukraine (collection)
- Title (official language):
- Материалы судебных учреждений Украины (коллекция)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Judicial Institutions of Ukraine
- Date(s):
- 1704/1916
- Language:
- Polish
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- German
- Russian
- Extent:
- 3,117 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Documents included contain information on the issuance of passports to Jews who wished to take part in bidding on liquor licenses; on Jewish merchants’ violations of trade rules, engagement in smuggling, and unlawful labelling of goods; Jews’ requests to transfer to the farmer estate; complaints by agents of the Mogilev Christian community against the provincial administration for farming out the city liquor trade to Jews; complaints of various Jewish communities to government offices regarding cases in which the collection of excises exceeded established norms, and regarding incorrect rulings on suits brought by Jewish communities (including a suit filed by the Jewish community of Zhitomir regarding the seizure of homes from its members without requisite monetary compensation). There are also files on Jewish kahals’ concealment of a significant number of persons in poll-tax censuses; files “on the question of whether Christian debtors in default can be made to pay their debts by acting as servants to Jewish creditors” (with citation of legislative acts on this issue); and on a complaint filed by former Pinsk Chief Rabbi A. Khaim against the local Jewish kahal and Hasidic community, alleged to have taken 400 chervontsy from him for this post and then eliminated the post and his livelihood.
- Archival history:
- This collection was formed from court files sent from the Senate archive to Kiev’s St. Vladimir University for use in the practical training of students of the latter institution’s law school.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Khaim, A.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory systematised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary