Metadata: Zhitomir Circuit Court; Zhitomir, Volhynia 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. 24
- Title:
- Zhitomir Circuit Court; Zhitomir, Volhynia Province
- Title (official language):
- Житомирский окружной суд, г. Житомир Волынской губ.; Житомирський окружний суд, м. Житомир Волинської губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Zhitomir Circuit Court
- Date(s):
- 1879/1919
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 32,023 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included (op. 2, 4 supp., 12-15, 17-18) are files of a mainly financial and property-related nature, dealing with various Jewish societies, institutions, and rabbis; a file on retired private I. S. Kotliar, accused of “apostasy from the Christian faith of the Orthodox confession and conversion to Judaism” (1884); and investigative materials on an anti-Jewish pogrom in the town of Kodnia (1919). A separate group of files consists of documents of 1917-18 pertaining to the registration of Jewish cultural-educational and cooperative organisations (the Berestechko Jewish Cooperative Society; the Klevan Jewish People’s Cooperative, the Cooperative Society of the Rovno Merchants’ Synagogue [kommercheskaia sinagoga], the Lutsk cultural-educational society Union of Parents, etc.).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Established pursuant to a Senate decree of 29 June 1880, this was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice and immediately subordinate to the Kiev Court Chamber. It consisted of two (later three) civil departments and one criminal department, and held jurisdiction over six counties of Volhynia province: Zhitomir, Novograd-Volhynskii, Ovruch, Starokonstantinov, Zaslav, and Ostrog. It was dissolved by Soviet power in 1919.
- Access points: locations:
- Kodnia
- Lutsk
- Starokonstantinov county
- Ukraine
- Volhynia province
- Zaslav county
- Zhitomir
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kotliar, I. S.
- Subject terms:
- Conversion to Judaism
- Financial matters
- Jewish community
- Pogroms
- Rabbis
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes twenty-two inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle, with the exception of op. 4 supp., which aggregates files on the registration of various cooperative societies grouped chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary