Kiev Municipal Credit Society

Collection

Scope and content:: Files on persons receiving loans (15-20% of whom were Jewish homeowners) include documents describing the accommodations and indicating the locations of synagogues in buildings owned by Lev I. Brodskii, A. Kh.-M. Shvarts, G. F. Grinshtein, L. F. Kileso, V. A. Gnevusheva, and others; of the Jewish communal assembly Konkordiia in a building owned by Lev I. Brodskii; of a Jewish savings and loan society in a building owned by Ia. N. Kapler; and of the Kiev branch of the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews (OPE) in a building owned by E. V. Karkovskaia. There are also biographical materials on such Jewish entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and public figures as G. G. Balakhovskii, Lazar’ and Lev I. Brodksii, L. B. Ginzburg, D. S. Margolin, I. A. Marshak, Kh. A. and Ia. Kh. Faibishenko, A. M. Gol’denberg, Ia. N. Kapler, etc.

Administrative/biographical history:: This was established in 1885 to finance long-term (over thirty years) loans for institutions and private individuals owning real estate in the city of Kiev and environs. Cases of delinquency resulted in the transfer of real estate to the Municipal Credit Society and its sale at public auction. In the period in which the society was in operation, a significant number of Kiev homeowners were Jews who had been granted Kiev residence, a category consisting mainly of persons with higher education and merchants of the first guild. (In 1886 the Senate granted Kiev merchants of the first guild, over half of whom were Jewish, the right to acquire real estate in any part of Kiev.) Held as collateral by the Kiev Municipal Credit Society were a significant portion of the buildings housing Jewish communal institutions, as well as houses of worship, as per an order of the minister of internal affairs (1893), Kiev Jews were not permitted to construct special religious buildings in Kiev, but could only rent premises for them from private individuals. The Kiev Municipal Credit Society was liquidated by Soviet power in 1919.

Access points: persons/families:: Balakhovskii, G. G.; Brodksii, Lazar’; Brodskii, Lev; Faibishenko, Ia. Kh.; Faibishenko, Kh. A.; Ginzburg, L. B.; Gnevusheva, V. A.; Gol’denberg, A. M.; Grinshtein, G. F.; Kapler, Ia. N.; Karkovskaia, E. V.; Kileso, L. F.; Margolin, D. S.; Marshak, I. A.; Shvarts, A. Kh.-M.

Subject terms:: Financial matters; Financial matters--Debt; Real estate; Synagogues

System of arrangement:: The fond includes two inventories, with files systematised in part alphabetically and in part chronologically.