Metadata: Skvira County Court
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Kyiv Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Київської області
- Postal address:
- 04119, м.Київ, вул.Мельникова, 38, 40.
- Phone number:
- 380 (44)206-74-99
- Web address:
- http://dako.gov.ua/
- Email:
- dako@archives.kiev.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 231
- Title:
- Skvira County Court
- Title (official language):
- Сквирский уездный суд
- Creator/accumulator:
- Skvira County Court
- Date(s):
- 1796/1873
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Polish
- Extent:
- 1,369 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The description below refers to five fonds from the Boguslav, Vasil’kov, Kiev, Skvira, and Tarashcha county courts. Specific information pertaining to each individual fond follows the general description.
Materials in the fond include a ruling of the Committee on Organizing the Jews prohibiting Jews from wearing traditional clothing or payot [sidelocks], and a court decree imposing fines for violations of these bans; files on Jewish communities and individuals accused of unlawful acts, in particular, of hiring Christian servants, or kidnapping Jews wishing to convert to Christianity; on Jewish converts to Christianity accused of failing to observe Russian Orthodox ritual or of converting back to Judaism; on Jews accused of denying the shroud of Christ; evading military conscription; etc. Several files also pertain to false denunciations of Jews supposedly having insulted the tsar; peasants’ attacks upon Jews and Jewish houses of worship; complaints filed by Jewish communities regarding unfounded claims on their property made by landowners, and regarding officials’ abuse of power and offense of the religious feelings of believers. There are also files on bringing charges against persons guilty of improperly compiling a poll tax census of Jewish families of Lipovets county; etc.
Specific to the Skvira County Court fond are registers and lists of Jewish merchants of Skvira county (1855-56) and Jewish farmers of the Romanovsk colony (1859); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- County courts were established in 1782 pursuant to the Regulation on the Provinces (1775) as courts of first instance to resolve criminal and civil cases in the territory of their respective counties. They consisted of a judge and two associate judges from the gentry and were under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice. They were dissolved in 1872 in connection with the Judicial Reform of 1864.
- Access points: locations:
- Lipovets county
- System of arrangement:
- Inventories are systematised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary