Metadata: Zhitomir County 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. 2
- Title:
- Zhitomir County Court; Zhitomir, Volhynia Province
- Title (official language):
- Житомирский уездный суд, г. Житомир Волынской губ.; Житомирський повітовий суд, м. Житомир Волинської губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Zhitomir County Court
- Date(s):
- 1795/1872
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Polish
- Extent:
- 1,275 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are court case files dealing mainly with financial and property-related disputes between Jewish kahals and communities and landowners, and complaints of harassment on the part of the latter. There are also files on Jews accused of criminal acts, and in particular, on the accusation that B. I. Michnik had reverted “from the Christian faith back to the Judaic one” (1861).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- County courts were established in 1763 as povet (county) land courts pursuant to a charter of hetman Kyrylo Rozumovs’kyi and in accordance with the Lithuanian Statute. In 1783, Catherine II extended the Regulation on the Provinces (1775) to cover Ukraine; these courts accordingly became county courts. However, in late 1796 Paul I restored the former judicial system, which existed until the Polish Uprising of 1831; after this was suppressed, all Polish institutions were liquidated, and povet land courts were reorganised as county ones. These courts were under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice and were initially subordinate to corresponding central courts, and after 1831, to chambers of the criminal and civil court. They heard civil and criminal cases, and also conducted notarial proceedings related to the witnessing of deeds of purchase, promissory notes, last wills and testaments, and the decisions of arbitration courts in property disputes. They were liquidated in 1872 in connection with the Judicial Reform of 1864.
- Access points: locations:
- Ukraine
- Volhynia province
- Zhitomir
- Access points: persons/families:
- Michnik, B. I.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary