Metadata: Jewish Community of Rotmistrovka, Cherkassy County, 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. 389
- Title:
- Jewish Community of Rotmistrovka, Cherkassy County, Kiev Province
- Title (official language):
- Еврейская община с. Ротмистровки Черкасского у. Киевской губ.; Єврейська громада с. Ротмистрівки Черкаського пов. Київської губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Community of Rotmistrovka
- Date(s):
- 1850/1862
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 46 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are vital records kept by rabbis registering births, marriages, divorces, and deaths among the Jewish population.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The legal and social status of Jewish communities (in Polish, gminy, the smallest administrative unit, which derives in turn from the German gemeinde, or commune) in this territory changed along with the legal situation of the Jewish population in the Russian Empire, the Polish Republic, and Soviet Ukraine. In Russia, where from 1844-1917, the kahal (community) arrangement of the Jewish population was not recognised de jure, Jewish communities mostly formed around major synagogues; their elections were of a closed nature; and their primary functions, aside from maintaining synagogues and cemeteries and engaging in charity, were tax collection and the delivery of conscripts. In Poland after the First World War, Jewish communities, defined by a law of 14 October 1927 as “religious associations of citizens of the Mosaic confession,” received quite broad autonomy. In particular, the gmina council, elected from among members of its board (in whose election, in turn, all local Jews participated on a non-preferential basis), was an influential body of community self-government. Its competence including, among other things, issues pertaining to the organisation of the rabbinate and the keeping of vital records; establishing and maintaining synagogues; taxation; social welfare; organising educational institutions and seeing to young people’s religious instruction; preparing for elections; etc. During the Soviet period, the national-territorial communities in the territories added to the Ukrainian SSR in September 1939 ceased, for all intents and purposes, to exist.
- Access points: locations:
- Kiev province
- Rotmistrovka
- Ukraine
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds' inventory is systematised mainly according to the chronological (chronological-document type) principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary