Metadata: Collection of Documents on Gentry Holdings in the Territory of the Ruthenian, Volhynian, Podolian, and Other Voivodeships
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Львів
- Postal address:
- 3a Soborna sq., 79008 Lviv
- Phone number:
- +380 (32) 235-40-63; +380 (32) 235-56-57
- Web address:
- https://archives.gov.ua/Eng/Archives/ca04.php
- Email:
- tsdial@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 134
- Title:
- Collection of Documents on Gentry Holdings in the Territory of the Ruthenian, Volhynian, Podolian, and Other Voivodeships
- Title (official language):
- КОЛЕКЦІЯ ДОКУМЕНТІВ ПРО ШЛЯХЕТСЬКІ МАЄТКИ НА ТЕРИТОРІЇ РУСЬКОГО, ВОЛИНСЬКОГО, ПОДІЛЬСЬКОГО ТА ІНШИХ ВОЄВОДСТВ
- Creator/accumulator:
- Castle and land courts, and various individuals
- Date(s):
- 1374/1932
- Language:
- Polish
- Latin
- German
- Extent:
- 2,348 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Materials housed in the fond that pertain to Jewish history may be provisionally divided into the following thematic groups:
1) Statistical data (mainly in op. 1) reflecting, among other things, the authorities’ tax policy vis-à-vis the Jewish population of Volhynia and Galicia, including lists of the Jewish population in certain localities: a list of Jews in the town of Trojanow (Volhynia province) (18th century); a list of tavern-keepers and propinators (leaseholders of the monopoly right to sell alcohol) in the village of Znesenie (now part of Lviv) (1846-55); records of Jews’ payment of the property tax (czynsz) in the town of Strzeliska Nowe (Novi Strilyshcha) (first half of the 19th c.); etc.
2) Agreements and other documents related to leases concluded by Jews (op. 2), in particular, signed statements and contracts concluded between the Dulskis (members of the nobility) on the one hand and L. Markowicz and G. Abrahamowicz on the other on the lease of inns in the villages of Bujwoliwce and Gleszawa (1755-90); an agreement on the lease of a mill in Belz by Jews (1823); an inventory of an estate in the village of Znesenie leased to S. Mahler (1867); etc.
3) There is a separate group of documents consisting of materials pertaining to financial and property disputes (op. 1, 2) in which one of the parties was Jewish – these include documents on a dispute between A. Zozulinski and the Jews Kh. and S. Wolfowicz (1721-29); numerous materials from property disputes between F. Łaszówska, owner of plots of land in the village of Znesenie, with nine Jews over the course of 1826-55; the ruling of the Lublin Crown Tribunal regarding a monetary dispute between the nobleman J. Potocki and the Jewish kahal of Belz (1718); a ruling of the Belz Municipal Court on the liquidation of the debt owed by the Jewish kahal of Belz to the noblemen A. and M. Prek (1746-48); etc.
Also housed in the fond are miscellaneous materials, including a privilege issued by the Wągrowiec Abbot Zacharia Żewuski to Jews entitling them to sell cloth in the city of Wągrowiec (op. 1, 1763); a complaint filed by the Jewish community of Sokal against the nobleman A. Menczinski over the latter’s removal of a tavern in the village of Babiniec (op. 1, 1772); an order placed by one Michałowski, an administrator of estates in Talne, to a tavern-keeper named Shleme for the production and sale of vodka (op. 2, 1776); contracts, investigation logs, and other documents pertaining to a case in which S. Mayer was accused of fraudulent practices in supplying grain to Sambor estates (op. 2, 1786-87); a notification of a government military commission to J. Zażycki and H. Schweitzer regarding payment for deliveries of army provisions (op. 2, 1826); an agreement concluded by the nobleman A. Rudolf with E. and S. Geszeles on the sale of a house in Lwów (op. 2, 1877); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This fond is based on documents submitted by individuals to register their ownership of real estate in tabular books. For the most part, these are original documents and extracts from the document logs of castle and land courts, as well as materials donated to the archive or purchased from private individuals. Some of the materials consist of miscellaneous papers from various fonds, and from defunct collections of personal and family papers.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes two inventories systematized by geography and alphabetically by surname (op. 1), and thematically (op. 2).
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
