Metadata: Kanev County Court; Kanev, 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. 896
- Title:
- Kanev County Court; Kanev, Kiev Province
- Title (official language):
- Каневский уездный суд, г. Канев Киевской губ.; Канівський повітовий суд, м. Канів Київської губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kanev County Court
- Date(s):
- 1792/1872
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Polish
- Extent:
- 1,286 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
This general description relates to the fonds of the Zvenigorodka, Kanev, Uman’, and Chigirin County Courts.
Included are court case files pertaining to various clashes arising during conversion from Judaism to Christianity and back, including on a complaint by a Jewish community that peasants of the village of Voronov had forcibly baptised a Jewish girl (1802); on a soldier named Bromberg, accused of returning to Judaism (1863-96); on the unlawfulness of a village starosta’s punishment of a peasant for aiding a Jewish boy’s conversion to Christianity (1862); on a Jew abducting his own daughter, who had agreed to convert to Christianity, from the town of Lebedin (1866-67); etc.
Also included are files arising from various abuses by Jewish communities and their representatives in farming out collection of the korobka [kosher meat tax] (1839-43) and in the conduct of recruitment, including concealment of Jewish recruits (1854-64) and their evasion of conscription and military service requirements (1865-66), extortion and bribe-taking by recruit-delivery agents (1868), etc. A number of files were opened in connection with Jewish community structures and individual Jews accused of violating the discriminatory norms of Russian legislation, for example, on forbidding the construction of a house of worship in Korsun’ without special permission for this (1867); on the melameds M. Zlotnik and N. Vol’fman, accused of increasing the number of children they taught without authorisation (1865); on violations of the rules governing commerce on Sundays, and of procedures for opening taverns; on travelling beyond the borders of the “pale of settlement”; etc.
There is also a group of files pertaining to inter- and intra-faith conflict: on the levying of meat and tallow from the Jewish community of the town of Lysianka for a Roman Catholic church (1850-51); on sixty-four Jewish townspeople [meshchane] of Boguslav accused of the unauthorised construction of homes and shops on land belonging to the counts Branitskii (1851-64); on a Jew named Bongard, accused of insulting one Rabbi Kal’varskii (1869-70); on a peasant named Debashchenko accused of making statements “in favor of an anti-Jewish pogrom” (1832); etc.
- 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; 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: persons/families:
- Branitskii family
- Vol’fman, N.
- Zlotnik, M.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds' inventory is systematised largely chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary