Metadata: Kiev Tailors’ Trade Guild
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the City of Kyiv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів міста Киева
- Postal address:
- вул. Олени Телiги, 23, м. Київ, 04060
- Phone number:
- 380 (44) 440 6350
- Web address:
- http://kiev-arhiv.gov.ua/en/
- Email:
- info@kiev-arhiv.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 328
- Title:
- Kiev Tailors’ Trade Guild
- Title (official language):
- Киевский кравецкий ремесленный цех
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kiev Tailors’ Trade Guild
- Date(s):
- 1792/1885
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 267 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The general description below relates to a number of fonds concerned with Kiev trade guilds. Details specific to the Kiev Tailors’ Trade Guild fond appear separately at the end.
A considerable set of documents housed in the fond sheds light on the legal status of Jewish craftsmen in Kiev, including correspondence on the registration of Jews as Kiev townspeople [meshchane]; on issuing trade certification to Jews; on barring Jewish master craftsmen from hiring Christian servants or taking on Christian apprentices; contracts between Jewish master craftsmen and apprentices; logbooks and records of Jewish apprentices and pupils, and materials on the hearing of cases of master-apprentice disputes; minutes of guild sessions on craft certification testing for Jews.
Also included are documents about the election of foremen from among Jewish artisans, and information on the receipt of payment from Jews (the “deposit for craft rights”); police inquiries regarding the residence rights of Jews and Jewish converts to Christianity, and instructions of the Kiev Municipal Duma granting Jews the right to reside only in the Ploska and Lybed’ sections of the city; and Jews’ passports and residence permits; an opinion of the State Council on a Senate report on the issue of allowing Jewish converts to Christianity to register as members of city estates [sosloviia]; etc.
Specific to the Kiev Tailors’ Trade Guild fond are lists of Jewish tailors; decrees on registering Jewish converts to Christianity to the tailors’ guild, and a petition asking that Jewish haberdashers newly arrived in Kiev be barred from making officers’ epaulets, which would be to the detriment of Kiev craftsmen.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Kiev craftsmen began to unite in guilds in the late fifteenth century; until 1802, these guilds were under the jurisdiction of the Kiev Municipality, and thereafter of the Kiev Craft Guilds’ Administration. They were liquidated in 1886. Jews could take part in Kiev guild activities beginning in 1794, when the city was added to the Pale of Settlement. In 1827, Jews were expelled from Kiev per an edict of Nicholas I; Jewish craftsmen were allowed to return to the city in 1865, although residence permits were issued to them and members of their families only pursuant to their trade certification, and only for the duration they were engaged in their trade. Jewish craftsmen, and in particular, cobblers, tailors, furriers, musicians, and jewellers (makers of gold, silver, and diamond items) made up the majority of people in their respective guilds.
- System of arrangement:
- Inventories in the fond are systematised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary