Metadata: Olyka City Hall; Olyka, Dubno County, Volhynia Province
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Volhynia Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Волинської області
- Postal address:
- 21 Veteraniv St., Lutsk, 43024, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (0332) 715 376
- Web address:
- www.volyn.archives.gov.ua
- Email:
- info@davo.voladm.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 486
- Title:
- Olyka City Hall; Olyka, Dubno County, Volhynia Province
- Title (official language):
- Олыкская городовая ратуша, м. Олыка Дубенского у. Волынской губ.; Олицька міськаратуша, м-ко ОликаДубенського пов. Волинської губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Olyka City Hall
- Date(s):
- 1799/1861
- Language:
- Russian
- Polish
- Extent:
- 199 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Included are copies of documents on the privileges of the Jewish community of Olyka, the last of which, issued 5 May 1791 by Prince M. Radziwill, reaffirmed the judicial force of all previous ones (1837); information on the results of voting in the election of Olyka City Hall burgomaster and councilmen, which included representatives of the Jewish community (1812, 1832); on restrictions on the election of Jews to city offices (1839); instructions of the Volhynia Provincial Administration concerning the oath-swearing of kahal home and other property appraisers elected by the Jewish community; on the issuance to Jewish residents of the town of Olyka of attestations to their right to own homes and to their state of being free of debts and arrears (1816); and on the need to check whether candidates for the offices of kahal rabbi, parnas [warden or board-member], and treasurer had prior convictions or had previously been under investigation (1840).
Also included are a City Hall ruling on appointing persons responsible for collecting quitrents on real estate, including (separately) on the homes of Jews (1830); statistical data on the size of the Jewish population of the town of Olyka (in 1830, 1838, and 1841) and data on its natural growth and decrease; reports of the Olyka kahal on the budget and its execution (1837); and information on the debts of the Jewish community of Olyka (1839).
A number of documents deal with the Jewish population’s subjection to the korobka [kosher meat tax] and fulfilment of conscription requirements. These include contracts for farming out collection of the korobka to Jewish merchants, and edicts of the Volhynia Provincial Administration on the incorrect issuance by the Lutsk County Court of sums from korobka funds toward the satisfaction of private debts (1830) and on the retrieval of the capital of debtors from among korobka lease-holders (1839); an edict of the Senate and the Volhynia Provincial Administration on the “method” by which Jews living more than 100 versts from the border should fulfil their military service requirement (1829); rejecting as groundless petitions by agents of the Berdichev Jewish community that conscription be fulfilled by turns, and stipulating that Jews be handed over for military service for failure to pay arrears (1830); on abuses by the recruitment commission in finding physical defects among Jews, and on the assignment of a Christian councilman to examine Jewish recruits; and on “procedures for setting punishments of Jews who incite Jewish servicemen to evade military service, or aid them in doing so” (1839).
There are also circulars of the Volhynia Provincial Administration and the Kiev military governor-general / Podolia and Volhynia governor-general “On the founding and opening in Kiev of a committee to relocate Jews from villages and the countryside to towns [mestechka], and on forbidding their permanent residence in Kiev” (1830); on benefits to Jews “removed from the area within fifty versts of the border with Austria and Prussia” (1843); on rules governing the temporary stays of Jews in Kiev and on establishing in the Libed’ district of Kiev an inn for Jews having come to the city (1844); on measures taken by the government “toward educating the Jews in Russia,” temporary rules subordinating Jewish scholars, educational institutions, and tutors to the oversight of the Ministry of Education (1844); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was a city institution of estate self-government, established in accordance with the City Statute (1785) after the Russian annexation of the territories of Right-Bank Ukraine and the extension thereto of the force of the Regulation on Provinces. It was in charge of the administrative-economic, judicial, and financial affairs of the merchant and townsperson [meshchanskoe] estates. It consisted of one burgomaster and two councilmen [ratmany], who were elected for three years. It was liquidated in 1866 pursuant to the Rules on the Abolition of Municipalities and City Halls [ratushy].
- Access points: persons/families:
- Radziwill, M.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes two inventories systematised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
