Metadata: Confidential records
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Sălaj County
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Româna, Direcţia judeţeană Sălaj
- Postal address:
- Tudor Vladimirescu Str. No. 26A, Zalău 450067, judeţul Sălaj, Romania
- Phone number:
- 0040-260-611016
- Email:
- salaj@arhivelenationale.ro
- Reference number:
- Fond 3b
- Title:
- Confidential records
- Title (official language):
- Acte confidenţiale
- Creator/accumulator:
- Supreme count of Sălaj county; Prefect of Sălaj county
- Date(s):
- 1902/1940
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 676 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains correspondence between the ispán (count or county head) of Sălaj County and governmental institutions in Budapest from 1902–18, and between the prefect of the county and the authorities from Bucharest, especially the Ministry of Internal Affairs, from 1920–40. Material of Jewish relevance includes regulations concerning Jewish confessional education in the county (file 6), restrictions on the issue of passports for Jews in Bukovina (file 9), passports applications from Jews wishing to emigrate to Palestine, which was under British mandate (files 17 and 21), measures against economic speculation by Jewish merchants (File 78) and disciplinary cases against Jewish notaries in the county (files 32 and 42). There are also four registers of receipt and issue of documents from 1902–40.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was transferred to the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Sălaj County, where it was inventoried and indexed.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Before the First World War, under Austro-Hungarian rule, the administration of Sălaj County was presided over by the ispán, who was subordinated to the government in Budapest. After the First World War, the county, along with the rest of Transylvania, came under Romanian administration, and the supreme authority in the county was the prefect, who was subordinated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Bucharest. From 1940–44 the county, as part of northern Transylvania, again became part of Hungary, and in 1944 the Romanian administration was reinstated and the prefect remained the head of the county until the 1950 communist reform of public administration.
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged into thematic sections. Within them, the files are in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 5; 329 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Sălaj County.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Anton Dörner (retired researcher), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor, Cluj-Napoca), 2017
