Metadata: Podolia Provincial Commissar of the Ukrainian People’s Republic; Vinnitsa
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади і управління України
- Postal address:
- 03110, м. Київ-110, вул. Солом’янська, 24
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-36-66
- Web address:
- http://tsdavo.gov.ua/
- Email:
- tsdavo@archives.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 628
- Title:
- Podolia Provincial Commissar of the Ukrainian People’s Republic; Vinnitsa
- Title (official language):
- Подольский губернский комиссар УНР, г. Винница
- Creator/accumulator:
- Podolia Provincial Commissar of the Ukrainian People’s Republic; Vinnitsa
- Date(s):
- 1882/1918
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 37 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Documents housed in the fond include instructions on procedures for communal rabbis and subordinate neighbourhood rabbis (1902); rules for awarding financial grants to Jewish farmers from interest on capital provided by Baron Gintsburg (1909); orders of the governor of Podolia banning the activities of Jewish theatre groups, and materials on resistance to these orders on the part of the Jewish population, in particular, a complaint of the cantor of the Berdichev synagogue regarding the rejection of a request for permission to hold concerts (1904); information on the receipt of complaints in connection with the mass expulsion of Jews from locations outside the Pale of Settlement; and an edict of the emperor and Senate suspending the expulsion of Jews until the end of the Russo-Japanese War (1904). There is also data on the pogrom movement in the province, including police reports on pogroms (1882-86), provincial authorities’ orders to county police chiefs [ispravniki] and other police officials on the need to take preventive measures to head off potential pogroms; information on the sharp increase in the pogrom movement in the province due to the revolutionary situation and the dissolution of the front, including local residents’ telegrams and police chiefs’ reports on cases of soldiers looting Jewish shops and plundering the Jewish population (with information on a pogrom in the town of Liantskorun’ [Kamenets county] in November 1917); an order of the UNR provincial commissar to local executive committees to intensify countermeasures against pogroms and, in particular, an order that pogromists caught in the act be shot on sight (December 1917). The fond also contains correspondence of the UNR Ministry of Jewish Affairs and the Podolia provincial starosta on illegal expulsions of Jews from their permanent places of residence (in connection with village meetings’ [selk’skie skhody] decisions to forcibly expel Jews from the villages of Gubnik, Chetvertinkov, and Stepushka in March 1918), on allocating plots of land for Jewish cemeteries (August 1918), etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The post of the Podolia Provincial Commissar of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR) was established in November 1917 after the Bolsheviks’ overthrow of the Provisional Government in Petrograd and the proclamation of the Central Rada as the supreme authority in Ukraine. From April through January 1918, after the coup carried out by Hetman P. P. Skoropads’kii, analogous functions were performed by the Podolia provincial starosta (on whose materials see f. 1793); when the UNR was restored, so was the post of Podolia provincial commissar thereof (see f. 538). This post was dissolved in 1920 after the establishment of Soviet power in the territory of Ukraine.
- Access points: locations:
- Berdichev
- Liantskorun’
- Vinnitsa
- Access points: persons/families:
- Baron Gintsburg
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary