Bukovina Military Administration

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Державний архів Чернівецької області

Scope and content:: Specific files and file fragments in this fonds are relevant to Jewish history and culture. These include sheets from a census of Jews residing in Bukovina (1776); instructions of the Court Military Council (German: Hofkriegsrat) on procedures for levying the land tax on the Jewish population of Bukovina (1776); instructions on permitting Jews to hire domestic servants (1776) and to distill wine and rent taverns (1784), and a directive that records of the Jewish religious community of Czernowitz be kept in German (1784); instructions to the Czernowitz Directorate on procedures by which Jewish craftsmen were to hire apprentices (1786), and to the Wischnitz (Vizhnitz; Vyzhnytsia) District Directorate on procedures by which the purpose of Jews’ travel to Bukovina was to be verified (1786); an order mandating that the Jews of Bukovina adopt surnames (1786); a file on a complaint lodged by residents of the community of Kimpolung against Isaac Abram, lessee of a local tavern, alleging that he had unwarrantedly raised prices (1780); a copy of a license issued to Isaac Izraham, a resident of the city of Czernowitz, entitling him to build a mill (1781); and a decree of Austrian Emperor Joseph II and directives issued to the Czernowitz District Directorate that medical examinations be performed on deceased Jews, and that Jewish death records be kept (1884).

Subject terms:: Census; Professions; Professions--Crafts; Trade and commerce; Trade and commerce--Alcohol trade; Vital records; Vital records--Death records

System of arrangement:: The fonds comprises a single inventory, arranged chronologically (and within specific years, by significance).