Metadata: Jewish Community of the City of Cetatea Alba [Chetatia-Albe]
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. 620
- Title:
- Jewish Community of the City of Cetatea Alba [Chetatia-Albe]
- Title (official language):
- Єврейська громада м. Четатя-Албе
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Community of the City of Cetatea Alba [Chetatia-Albe]
- Date(s):
- 1919/1940
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 26 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Documents housed in the fonds include correspondence with the Akkerman County Prefecture, the municipal primaria, and a Jewish house of worship on providing statistical information pertaining to the city’s Jewish population, elections of community officials, the observance of Jewish religious holidays, etc. (1922-24); correspondence with the Akkerman police and village primarias on sending birth certificates for the purpose of compiling lists of draftees; a log of minutes of sessions of members of the Jewish community of the city of Cetatea Alba for 1937-39; lists of community members and voters taking part in elections for the community council (1938-39); reports on community activities, and on operations of the public bathhouse for 1939-40; and financial documents, including a log of receipts recording the collection of taxes that went to fund the Jewish shelter, and balance sheets of the community (1939-40). There is also a log recording births, marriages, and deaths in 1938; applications by Jewish residents of Cetatea Alba requesting birth certificates, marriage licenses, and material status certification; and requests for the correction of mistakes in documents, for copies of certificates and documents that had been issued, etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- [Recordkeeping documents of the archive refer to the collection creator as the “Jewish Municipal Tarbut Society; Cetatea Alba”; on the Tarbut society, see the historical information given in the descriptions of f. 617 etc.] The inception of the Jewish community in Cetatea Alba (called Akkerman in Russian, and starting in 1944, Belgorod-Dnestrovskii) dates to the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries. When the city was conquered by Russia (1806), which led to the arrival of Jews from other areas of the Pale of Settlement, the size of the local community increased significantly. As of 1919, there were 5,624 Jews in Akkerman (19.9% of the overall number of residents), and there was a whole network of Jewish communal and charitable institutions: a burial society, four synagogues, a Jewish hospital, a Talmud-Torah, the Society to Aid Needy Jews, two men’s and two women’s state Jewish schools, a savings and loan, etc. After 1918, when the city became part of Romania, several new Jewish charitable and cultural-educational institutions and schools were established, mainly of a Zionist tendency, including the secondary school [gimnaziia] of the Tarbut society (which had an eight-year curriculum and where instruction was conducted in Hebrew). In July and August 1940, upon Bessarabia’s annexation to the USSR and the formation of the Akkerman region, these Jewish entities were liquidated, and the buildings housing them were handed over for the use of new Soviet institutions (in particular, one of the synagogues was used to house the regional archive); and hundreds of Jewish activists were arrested and sent to Siberia.
- Access points: locations:
- Cetatea Alba
- Ukraine
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary