State Senate of the Ukrainian People’s Republic; Kiev

Collection

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

Title (official language):: Государственный Сенат Украинской Народной Республики, г. Киев

Scope and content:: Included is information on Jews subjected to attacks and violence during the Civil War. Some of the fond’s documents are devoted to consideration of the complaint of an assistant of Odessa City Rabbi A.-L. Vaisman against the Odessa Municipal Administration in connection with his unlawful dismissal; these materials include appeal correspondence, lawyers’ interpretations, information on procedures for electing rabbis and religious leaders of Jewish communities of Odessa, and the text of information published in the newspaper Odesskie novosti [Odessa News] under the title “On Jewish Affairs” (1908). There is also correspondence on complaints filed regarding various administrative and judicial rulings that affected Jewish entrepreneurs, traders, homeowners, etc.

Administrative/biographical history:: [The collection creator’s correct title is the State Senate of the Ukrainian State.] This was established 8 July 1918 during the rule of Hetman P. P. Skoropads’kii as the supreme judicial body of the Ukrainian State [Ukrains’ka derzhava], replacing the General Court founded under the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR). It oversaw the activities of all state courts, and was divided into three general courts: the Administrative, Civil, and Criminal General Courts. Its makeup, appointed by the hetman upon preliminary consent of the Ukrainian State’s Council of Ministers, included a president, general assembly senators, and general court senators. Public prosecutors were appointed for the Senate’s general assembly and in each of the general courts. It ceased activities after the coup (December 1918) that brought the UNR Directorate to power.

Subject terms:: Civil wars; Legal matters; Rabbis; Revolutions; Trade and commerce

System of arrangement:: The fond includes a single inventory systematised largely according to the structural-chronological principle.