Metadata: Izmail Municipal Administration
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Izmail Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- КУ "Ізмаїльський Архів"
- Postal address:
- КУ «Ізмаїльський архів», м Ізмаїл, вул. Савицького, 67, Одеська область, Україна 68612
- Phone number:
- 380 (04841) 2-10-27
- Web address:
- http://www.izmail-rada.gov.ua/-q-q
- Email:
- arhiv.izmail@odessa.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 2
- Title:
- Izmail Municipal Administration
- Title (official language):
- Ізмаїльська міська управа, м. Ізмаїл
- Creator/accumulator:
- Izmail Municipal Administration
- Date(s):
- 1878/1919
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 778 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Included are Senate edicts and circular instructions of the Bessarabia governor on deporting Jews not listed in salary rolls (не значились в роллах – окладных листах) from the fifty-verst border zone in the reunified section of Bessarabia (1880); on issuing residence passports and merchant licenses in places of Jewish settlement (1882); barring Jews from residing outside cities and towns (1882); “temporarily halting” the issuing of title deeds and bills of sale to Jews for real estate located outside of cities and towns (1882); barring Jews from engaging in commerce on Sundays (1882), and permitting them to engage in commerce in Russia only if they had been certified as 1st guild merchants entitled to engage in cross-border trade for a year; circular instructions of the Bessarabia Revenue Chamber to the effect that commercial licenses could be issued to foreign Jews “upon their presentation of certification that they had been baptised according to the rite of one of the foreign Christian confessions tolerated in the state” (1887); and of the Department of Trade and Manufacturing to the effect that industrial and commercial licenses issued to Jews should include only such Jewish names as are recorded in the given person’s birth certificate (1888); etc.
A considerable number of documents housed in the fonds pertain to the election of officials of the Izmail rabbinate and to operations of Jewish communal institutions. Among these are files on the organisation of the Jewish burial society and the drawing up of its charter (1890); election of the Izmail crown rabbi and setting his salary and fees for the performance of rituals (1892-93, 1898, 1913-14); election of members of the religious boards of Jewish houses of worship (Botoșani, Bes-hamidrash, and the Choral and Old Community Synagogues; 1890-91, 1911); and the approval of the members of the religious board of the Psaltyr’ house of worship (1918); lists of congregants of synagogues and Jewish houses of worship; correspondence, announcements, and instructions on procedures for electing agents thereof, and electing rabbis and assistant rabbis; and proceedings on these elections, inventories of Jewish vital records (by year), etc.
Documents on Jews’ fulfilment of military service requirements include excerpts from vital records (on persons born in 1890-91) issued by the Izmail crown rabbi for the purpose of compiling lists of Jewish draftees, and these lists themselves (1905, 1914); files on verifying the marital status of Jews who were subject to the draft; Jews’ requests for assignment to local draft boards for the purpose of fulfilling military service requirements in their places of residence (1914); draft lists of Jews subject for immediate call-up (1914-15); etc.
The fonds also contains petitions by Jewish residents of Izmail for admission to the Jewish community, and for withdrawal from it; licenses issued to Jewish merchants entitling them to engage in trade in various cities of the Russian Empire (1879), and Jews’ requests for permission to conduct various forms of commerce on Sundays and holidays after the completion of cathedral services (1893); lists of Jews who had paid the state commercial tax, and of Jewish voters who have taken part in elections for the State Duma (1905-06); a report by Mayor Naidenov on the state of Jews in Izmail as of 1 April 1918, with data on the numbers thereof (“in all, there are 4,786 residing in the city center, closer to the arcade and city market”); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Municipal administrations were formed in Izmail county after its annexation to Russia in accordance with the Treaty of Berlin of 1 (13) July 1878, which concluded the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. They were the administrative-executive bodies of municipal communal councils (executive authorities elected in this territory, per the Romanian community law of 1874, instead of municipal dumas). They were also subordinate to the Izmail Permanent Land Committee. These administrations were in charge of city budgets, the levying and collection of state and zemstvo taxes, education, healthcare, road construction and repair, city services and improvements, renting city land, fisheries, the issuance of commercial licenses, etc. They were liquidated in 1918 upon Bessarabia’s annexation to Romania.
- Access points: locations:
- Bessarabia
- Izmail
- Romania
- Russia
- Ukraine
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised chronologically (and within years, by document significance).
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
