Metadata: Galician Provincial Administration (Viceroyalty) for Bukovina
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of the Chernivtsi Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Чернівецької області
- Postal address:
- Nebesnoi Sotni, 20-А (Bldg 1), Chernivtsi, 58029
- Phone number:
- 00380 (372) 57-36-77
- Web address:
- cv.archives.gov.ua
- Email:
- archive_cv@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 1026
- Title:
- Galician Provincial Administration (Viceroyalty) for Bukovina
- Title (official language):
- Галицька губернська управа (намісництво) у справах Буковини
- Creator/accumulator:
- Galician Provincial Administration (Viceroyalty) for Bukovina
- Date(s):
- 1775/1861
- Language:
- German
- French
- Extent:
- 1542 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
Material in this fonds that pertains to Jewish history and culture is found mainly in inventory 1, and may be provisionally divided into the following thematic groups:
1) Documents of the Galician governor’s office regulating the legal and property status of the Jewish population of Bukovina, including correspondence with the Bukovina District Administration on investigations of cases of Jews residing in the district without permission (1836, 1842-51); on the handling of Jews’ applications for Bukovina residence permits (1836-54); on the hearing of a complaint filed by Czernowitz (Chernivtsi) residents Josef Salter, Mayer Wender, and Benyamin Salter against a ruling by which they had been barred from opening shops (1837); on the hearing of a complaint filed by Czernowitz merchant Hersch Juster against the rejection of his petition for the status of citizen of Czernowitz (1842); on the imposition of fines on the dominium of Zamostea because Jews were residing there without permission (1839); correspondence with the governor-general in the city of Kyiv on the repatriation of Jews who had fled from Russia to Bukovina (1844), and on providing information on the number of Jewish families residing in cities of Bukovina (1845-48).
2) Material pertaining to the activities of Jewish religious communities of Bukovina, including correspondence with the district administration on a petition of the Jewish religious community of Radautz regarding the Sereth community’s separation from it, and petitions regarding the collection of taxes from Jewish families of Suczawa and the city of Czernowitz (1838-53); correspondence on procedures for keeping civil-status records, on the construction of a synagogue in the city of Czernowitz, etc. (1839-53); on the issuance of marriage permits for Czernowitz Jews (1841); on the collection of taxes from members of the Jewish religious communities of Czernowitz, Suczawa, and Wischnitz (Vizhnitz; Vyzhnytsia) (1841-52); a report of the district administration on a complaint filed by Itzig Weibel, a Jewish resident of the city of Czernowitz, alleging that the board of the Jewish religious community had violated electoral law during board elections (1847-48).
3) Material pertaining to the economic activities of the Jewish population of Bukovina, in particular, a file on the hearing of a complaint filed by residents of the city of Sadagora (Sadhora) against Jewish distillers alleged to be engaged in unlawful trade in alcoholic beverages (1820); a petition of the district administration for the payment of compensation to Czernowitz resident Hersch Juster for land seized by the magistrate (1837); a file on the hearing of complaints filed by Jewish residents of the city of Suczawa, alleging that they had been unlawfully deprived of their right to purchase real estate from Christians (1838-45); applications submitted by the Jews Abram Lupitinger and Israel Lenzer for permission to open shops in Suczawa and Czernowitz (1840-41); correspondence with the Court Chancellery in Vienna and the Bukovina District Administration on petitions submitted by Jewish residents of Bukovina for permission to purchase real estate (1842-48), and on a petition by the Jewish religious community of Suceava for permission to use pastures outside that city (1843, 1847); a file on the backfilling of a trench in the lower part of the city of Czernowitz, in its “Jewish quarter” (1846); files on the hearing of complaints lodged by Czernowitz residents Rosenstock and Amster alleging that the magistrate had unlawfully expropriated land plots belonging to them (1849); etc.
4) Material on the calculation and collection of taxes from members of Jewish religious communities, including a report of the Suceava County Administration on a violation of procedures by which taxes were to be collected from Jews engaged in agriculture (1801-02); correspondence with the Bukovina District Administration and Galicia State Accounting Office on the collection of family taxes from Jews, on increasing taxes on the sale of wine (1843), and on the leasing of the right to collect liquor taxes in the city of Suczawa (1843); a report on a complaint filed by Lazar Rosenzweig, a lessee of the right to collect liquor taxes, against the magistrate for breach of the lease agreement (1849).
5) Particular files on various subjects, including correspondence with the district administration on name-change applications submitted by Jews (1836-54); correspondence between the Bukovina District Administration and the Catholic Consistory in the city of Lemberg (Lviv) on permitting minors who were members of the Jewish religious communities of Czernowitz and Suczawa to convert to Catholicism (1836-39); files pertaining to the investigation of a denunciation against Hersh Parull, a resident of the city of Sereth, alleged to be engaged in fundraising for unlawful purposes and conducting propaganda among the Jewish population against the Austrian authorities (1847); complaints filed by members of the Jewish community of Sadagora against mandators, landowners, and tenants, alleging instances of assault and battery, unlawful arrest, and extortion (1840-48); and a report of the district administration on an investigation regarding the desertion of 28 Polish-Jewish servicemen (1848).
- Access points: locations:
- Bukovina
- Chernivtsi
- Lemberg
- Radautz
- Sadagora
- Sereth
- Suceava
- Suczawa
- Vyzhnytsia
- Access points: persons/families:
- Amster
- Juster, Hersch
- Lenzer, Israel
- Lupitinger, Abram
- Parull, Hersh
- Rosenstock
- Rosenzweig, Lazar
- Salter, Benyamin
- Salter, Josef
- Weibel, Itzig
- Wender, Mayer
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation
- Citizenship
- Conversion to Christianity
- Crime
- Jewish community
- Jewish soldiers
- Legal matters
- Plunder
- Real estate
- Refugees
- Residency issues of Jews
- Synagogues
- Taxation
- Trade and commerce
- Trade and commerce--Alcohol trade
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises two inventories arranged thematically and chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
