Metadata: Jewish Communities and Institutions of the Mogilev and Vitebsk Province Collection
Collection
- Country:
- Belarus
- Holding institution:
- National Historical Archive of Belarus
- Holding institution (official language):
- Национальный исторический архив Беларуси
- Postal address:
- ul. Kropotkina, 55, Minsk, 220002, Belarus
- Phone number:
- + 375 (17) 286 75 23; 286 76 92
- Web address:
- https://niab.by/newsite/
- Email:
- niab@niab.by
- Reference number:
- F. 3410
- Title:
- Jewish Communities and Institutions of the Mogilev and Vitebsk Province Collection
- Title (official language):
- ЕВРЕЙСКИЕ ОБЩЕСТВА И УЧРЕЖДЕНИЯ МОГИЛЕВСКОЙ И ВИТЕБСКОЙ ГУБЕРНИЙ КОЛЛЕКЦИЯ
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Communities and Institutions of the Mogilev and Vitebsk Province Collection
- Date(s):
- 1841/1917
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 96 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Op. 1 contains vital records of the Mogilev synagogue, including birth (1890/1917), marriage (1893/1917), divorce (1898/1917), and death (1895/1899) records of Jews of the city Mogilev; of the Senno synagogue, with birth (1900/1902, 1907/1908, 1910/1915, 1917/1918) and death (1900/1902, 1907/1908, 1910/1915) records of Jews of the city of Senno (Senno county, Mogilev province); of the Lukoml’ synagogue, containing information on births (1882, 1887, 1892, 1905/1906, 1916) among Jews of the town of Lukoml’ (Senno county, Mogilev province); and of the Chashniki synagogue, with birth records (1913/1914) of Jews of the town of Chashniki (Lepel’ county, Vitebsk province). Op. 2 contains materials for Mogilev province, which may be provisionally divided into the following thematic groups: 1) Vital records of Jewish communities of Mogilev county, including: the Jewish community of Buinichi, with birth (1841, 1857, 1864, 1872/1879, 1881, 1883, 1885/1889, 1891/1915), marriage (1872/1917), and death (1871/1915) records; of Vorotynshchina-Zaverezh’e, with birth (1872/1916), marriage (1872/1915), and death (1872/1917) records; Dashkovka, with birth (1857/1898, 1907/1915) and death (1858/1915) records; Kniazhitsy, with birth (1871/1915), marriage (1871/1916), and death (1871/1915) records; Selets, with marriage (1871/1917) and death (1871/1915) records; and Tishovka, with birth (1871/1917) and marriage (1871/1915) records of Jews assigned to these societies. 2) Vital records of the following Jewish communities of Gorki county: Gorki, with marriage (1894/1917) and death (1894/1917) records; Liady, with birth (1893/1898, 1900/1902, 1904/1917), marriage (1891/1915), divorce (1881/1917), and death (1891/1917) records; and Romanovka, with birth (1897/1912, 1916/1917) and marriage (1897/1912, 1915, 1917) records of Jews assigned to these communities. 3) Vital records of the Jewish community of Mstislavl’ (Mstislavl’ county), including records of births among members of this community (1916). Op. 3 contains vital records of the Jewish community of Mstislavl’, with birth (1893) and death (1872) records, as well as of the Jewish community of Shamovka (Mstislavl’ county), with birth records (1883, 1889, 1894) of Jews assigned to these communities. Op. 4 contains vital records with information on births, marriages, divorces, and deaths among Jews of the city of Gomel’ (1907/1918); births among Jews assigned to the Vetka (1912, 1913/1918) and Zhlobin (1907/1917) crown rabbinates; and also to the Jewish community of Karpilovka (Rogachev county) (1897/1917).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The collection includes vital records kept by the Jewish communities and synagogues of Gomel’, Gorki, Mogilev, Mstislavl’, Klimovichi, and Rogachev counties (Mogilev province), and also the Chashniki synagogue of Lepel’ county (Vitebsk province). By a statute of 1835 intended to register the Russian Empire’s Jewish population, it became mandatory for rabbis to keep logs registering acts of civil status among Jews. The same statute set penalties for accidental or intentional failure to record particular items. Vital-records logs were usually kept at a synagogue or house of worship. In some cases, entries in these record-books may have been made by local officials or representatives of non-Jewish religious denominations. Smaller communities may not have had their own person responsible for keeping vital records; in such cases, this duty was performed in the nearest population center with a larger Jewish community (often the county seat).
- Access points: locations:
- Mogilev province
- Vitebsk province
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes four inventories systematized chronologically (op. 1) and geographically (op. 2); ops. 3 and 4 have no apparent systematization.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary