Metadata: Municipality of Radomysl’; Radomysl’, Kiev Province
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Zhitomir Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Житомирської області
- Postal address:
- 2/20 Ohrimova Hora Str.. Zhytomyr, 10003, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (0412) 42-48-00
- Web address:
- http://archive.zt.gov.ua/
- Email:
- archive_zt@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 715
- Title:
- Municipality of Radomysl’; Radomysl’, Kiev Province
- Title (official language):
- Радомысльский городовой магистрат, г. Радомысль Киевской губ.; Радомисльський міський магістрат, м. Радомисль Київської губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipality of Radomysl’
- Date(s):
- 1796/1868
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Polish
- Extent:
- 684 files. Another fond of this same collection creator is housed in the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine (Kyiv) (f. 793).
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are municipality proceedings that mention Jewish residents; litigation among them and the collection from them of assessments and “in-kind obligations” [natural’naia povinnost’]; appraisal of their property; files on interfaith conflicts; on Jewish communities’ farming out of the korobka [kosher meat tax], elections of council members, kahal and “oral court” [slovesnyi sud] judges, rabbis, and kahal parnasim [wardens or board-members] (1821-25); on the harbouring of deserters and abuses by agents of Jewish communities (Radomysl’, etc.) in carrying out recruitment and censuses of Jewish towns. Documents contained in these files include, among other things, lists of Jewish recruits whose “turn” had come up, and name-sheets of persons not subject to conscription; lists of Jewish families who had evaded taxes; arrears assessments; texts of the Jewish oath and “spiritual admonition” [dukhovnoe uveshchanie] that were read by Jewish witnesses being sworn in; complaints and petitions of defendants; poll tax censuses of Jewish communities and addenda thereto; family lists of Jewish merchants, craftsmen, and townspeople [meshchane]; etc. There are also copies of the Statute on the Jews (1804); of imperial edicts expelling Jews from villages (19 October 1804), dividing Jews into four classes (farmers, manufacturers and craftsmen, merchants, and townspeople), and stipulating the census of each of these (1805); correspondence on Jews in state service who had not converted to Christianity (1828-29); on an investigation into the causes of korobka arrears originating, in particular, from the Jewish community of Chernobyl’ (1857-62); official lists of Jewish town council members; a notebook for recording Jews residing in Radomysl’ county, Kiev province (1804); lists of cities and towns of the Kiev province in which Jews were allowed to live (1805); petitions of Jewish boxmakers for permission to form a separate guild (1826); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Municipalities were elected bodies of city self-government, founded when these cities were granted the Magdeburg Rights (Vladimir in 1431 [renamed Vladimir-Volhynskii upon its annexation to Russia after the third partition of Poland, 1795]), Kovel’ in 1518). Headed by a voito, they consisted of two collegia and were in charge of administrative, economic, financial, and judicial affairs. After Right-Bank Ukraine was annexed to Russia and the Volhynia province was created, these bodies were reorganised on the basis of the Charter [gramota] on the Rights and Privileges of the Cities of the Russian Empire (1785). They were under the jurisdiction of the provincial magistrate, as well as the Volhynia Central Court (from 1831, the Provincial Chambers of the Criminal and Civil Court) as an appeals instance. After the first three functions mentioned above were transferred in 1737-38 to the newly-created city dumas, the municipalities’ function was solely to hear court cases, assess and collect real estate taxes, apportion craftsmen among guilds, etc. Interacting with these bodies in the name of Jewish communities were individuals (Jewish town councilmen) as well as bodies of self-government (kahalim, Jewish societies). They were liquidated in 1866 in connection with the adoption of the judicial reform pursuant to the Rules on the Abolition of Municipalities and City Halls [ratushy].
- Access points: locations:
- Kiev province
- Radomysl’
- Radomysl’ county
- Ukraine
- System of arrangement:
- Files in the fonds are systematised chronologically.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
