Metadata: Collection of Documents regarding Nobility Properties in the Ruthenian, Volhynia, Podolia, and Other Voivodeships
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine, Lviv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Львів
- Postal address:
- pl. Soborna, 3-а, 79008, L’viv
- Phone number:
- + 38 (032) 235-40-63
- Web address:
- tsdial.archіves.gov.ua
- Email:
- tsdial@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 134
- Title:
- Collection of Documents regarding Nobility Properties in the Ruthenian, Volhynia, Podolia, and Other Voivodeships
- Title (official language):
- Колекція документів про шляхетські маєтки на території Руського, Волинського, Подільського та інших воєводств
- Date(s):
- 1374/1932
- Language:
- Polish
- Latin
- German
- Extent:
- 2,348 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds contains (mainly in no. 1) lists of the Jewish population in certain localities: a list of Jews in the town of Troianov (Volhynia province) (18th century); a list of tavern-keepers and propinators (holders of the monopoly on the sale of alcohol) in the village of Zniesienie (now part of the city of L’viv) (1846-55); and records of Jews’ quitrent (czynsz) payments in the town of Strzeliska Nowe (first half of the 19th century).
There are also contracts and other documents pertaining to rental agreements involving Jews: written acknowledgements and agreements drawn up between members of the noble Dulski family and, as the party of the second part, Leyzer Markovich and Hershko Abrahamovich, regarding the rental of taverns in the villages of Builovka and Hleszczawa (no. 2, 1755/1790); a lease agreement for a mill in Bełz (1823); and an inventory of an estate in the village of Zniesienie that was leased to Samuel Machler (1867).
A large group of documents consists of materials pertaining to financial and property disputes involving Jews as one of the parties. These include documents about a dispute between Anton Zozulinski with Chaim and Sara Vulfovich (1721-29), as well as numerous materials on disputes between F Laszowska, owner of estates in the village of Zniesienie, and nine Jews – disputes that lasted from 1826-55. Also in this category is a ruling of the Lublin Crown Tribunal regarding a financial dispute between the nobleman Józef Potocki and the Jewish kahal of Bełz (1718), and a ruling of the Bełz Municipal Court regarding liquidation of the Bełz kahal’s debt to the nobles Andrzej and Marianna Prek (1746-48).
The fonds also contains miscellaneous records: a privilege granted by Wągrowiec Abbot Zacharia Rzewuski entitling Jews to sell cloth in the town of Wągrowiec (1763); a complaint filed by the Jewish community of the city of Sokal against the nobleman Adalbert Meczynski on the grounds that the latter had unlawfully repossessed a tavern in the village of Babiniec (1772); an order by one Michałowski, estates administrator in the city of Talne, to a tavern keeper named Shleme regarding the production and sale of vodka (no. 2, 1776); agreements, investigation protocols, and other documents pertaining to the case of one Shmuel Meyer, accused of fraudulent dealings in supplying grain to a Sambor estate (no. 2, 1786-87); a notification by a government military commission to Yakov Zazhitsky and Hershko Schweitzer regarding payment for the supply of food items for the army (1826); a contract concluded between the nobleman Andrzej Rudolf and Elias and Simon Hesheles regarding the sale of a house in Lemberg/Lwów (1877); etc.
- Archival history:
- This fonds consists mainly of documents submitted by private individuals upon the registration of their ownership of real estate in tabular logs. For the most part, these are original documents and extracts from the logs of castle and land courts, as well as materials donated to the archive or purchased from private individuals. Some of the fonds represents fragmentary materials transferred from various other fonds; and materials from small personal and family fonds that have since been disbanded.
- Access points: locations:
- Babiniec
- Bełz
- Sambor
- Sokal
- Strzeliska
- Troianov
- Wągrowiec
- Zniesienie
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abrahamovich, Hershko
- Hesheles, Elias
- Hesheles, Simon
- Markovich, Leyzer
- Meyer, Shmuel
- Schweitzer, Hershko
- Shleme
- Vulfovich, Chaim
- Vulfovich, Sara
- Zazhitsky, Yakov
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises two series. The first is arranged geographically and alphabetically (by surname), the second thematically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary