Metadata: Municipality of Chigirin; Chigirin, Kiev Province
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Cherkassy Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Черкаської області
- Postal address:
- 224 A Blahovisna Str., Cherkasy, 18015 Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (472) 37-30-26
- Web address:
- ck.archives.gov.ua
- Email:
- archive_ck@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 841
- Title:
- Municipality of Chigirin; Chigirin, Kiev Province
- Title (official language):
- Чигиринский городовой магистрат, г. Чигирин Киевской губ.; Чигиринський міський магістрат, м. Чигирин Київської губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipality of Chigirin
- Date(s):
- 1800/1857
- Language:
- Russian
- Polish
- Extent:
- 19 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Included are poll-tax censuses of the Jewish population of a number of towns of Uman’ county for 1812-13, and of the Shpola kahal for 1842; correspondence on correcting the [membership] “listing” [perechnevaia vedomost’] of the Uman’ kahal (1818-17); data on participation of the Jewish population of Zvenigorodka in the collection of donations for uniforms and arms for the people’s militia [narodnoe opolchenie] (1806); on a census of the population of the Uman’ kahal (in 1815-17).
There are also files on the taxation of the Jewish and Christian population living in Zvenigorodka county (1800); on the levying of the korobka [kosher meat tax] from the Jewish community of Korsun’ (1844-57), and on the investigation of abuses and embezzlement in korobka levying committed by an agent of the Jewish community of Korsun’ and by a local conscription starosta (1849-50); on Shpola kahal parnasim failing to disclose poll-tax census males during recruitment (1842); on the banned Jewish book Baḥ discovered in the town of Shpola (1847-49) [this most likely refers to the book Bayit ḥadash, the main work of Yo’el ben Shemu’el Sirkes (1561-1640), a rabbi and Talmudist at one time famous in Poland, who was known by the acryonym Baḥ formed from the title of this book, which represents a critical commentary to the fundamental work of another halakhic authority, Ya‘akov ben Asher’s (1270?-1340?) Arba’ah turim]; on prosecution of a group of Korsun’ Jewish townspeople [meshchane] for “causing offense” to a priest and to a Jew who had converted to Orthodoxy (1853-59); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Municipalities were elected bodies of city self-government, founded when these cities were granted the Magdeburg Rights. 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:
- Chigirin
- Kiev province
- Korsun’
- Shpola
- Ukraine
- Zvenigorodka
- Access points: persons/families:
- ben Asher, Ya‘akov
- Sirkes, Yo’el ben Shemu’el
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds' inventory is systematised mainly chronologically and according to the chronological-document type principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary