Metadata: Government Commission of Internal Affairs [and the Police]
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych w Warszawie
- Postal address:
- ul. Długa 7, 00-263 Warszawa
- Phone number:
- (+ 48 22) 831-54-91; (+ 48 22) 93, 635-45-32
- Web address:
- www.agad.archiwa.gov.pl
- Email:
- secretariat@agad.gov.pl
- Reference number:
- 1/191
- Title:
- Government Commission of Internal Affairs [and the Police]
- Title (official language):
- Komisja Rządowa Spraw Wewnętrznych
- Creator/accumulator:
- Government Commission of Internal Affairs
- Date(s):
- 1795/1868
- Language:
- Polish
- Russian
- German
- Latin
- Extent:
- 440.08 linear metres (7,957 folders)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection is divided into two sections: administration and police (1844 units in total) and municipal affairs (6,164 units).
The municipal affairs records include a general subsection of municipal issues within the kingdom and files of towns or cities in the governorates of Warsaw, Radom, Lublin, Płock, and Augustów. The records of the City of Warsaw form a separate group. Within the records for each governorate, acta generalia can be found along with files for each town and city. The City of Warsaw dossier is categorised into units comprising documents related to the factual/subject entries and arranged in alphabetical order.
The administration and police section includes a series of annual reports; reports on economic, business, administrative and social and public affairs; materials related to migrations; records and evidence, civil rights, crimes and offences, proprietary rights and entitlements; and schools and the education system.
The fund consists of 248 units, all of which are related to Jewish affairs; these include:
Ref. no. 14: Jews exempt from use of taproom (propinacja) income in towns/cities, 1857-62.
Ref. no. 97: Jews settled on city-owned lands and manorial farms (folwarks) in the kingdom, 1843-44.
Ref. no. 107: De non tolerandis Judaeis charter for cities and towns of the kingdom, 1846-48.
Ref. nos. 185-189: Furnishing housing facilities for Jews in the kingdoms towns and cities, 1821-63.
Ref. no. 190: Dossier of the case filed against Abuś Silbersztajn, a publican of the town of Bodzentyn, for leasehold of an inn (austeria) with a taproom located in the town, 1850-51.
Ref. no. 840: Jews residing in the town of Grójec (facilities), 1810-60.
Ref. nos. 1123-1125: Jews residing in the city of Kalisz (facilities), 1811-60.
Ref. nos. 1265-1266: Jews residing in the town of Łowicz, 1812-61.
Ref. no. 1491a: Domicile of Jews in the town of Piotrków[-Trybunalski], 1858-61.
Ref. no. 1679: Domicile of Jews in the town of Rawa[-Mazowiecka] 1851-61.
Ref. no. 2117: Records of housing facilities of Jews in the town of Zgierz,1824-[59].
Ref. nos. 2454, 2455a: Jews denied residence in the city of Kielce, 1822-63.
Ref. nos. 2805-2808: Jews residing in the city of Radom (facilities), 1810-62.
Ref. no. 3195d: The Privileges benefitting the Town and the Kahal of Szczebrzeszyn, drawn up as of the year 1821, 1821.
Ref. nos. 3552-3554: Jews residing in the town of Krasnystaw (facilities), 1822-[60].
Ref. nos. 3734-3739: Jews residing in the city of Lublin (facilities), 1811-67.
Ref. no. 4407: A dispute between the town of Maków[-Mazowiecki] and the Jews, 1839-49.
Ref. no. 4545: The city of Płock (including a plan of the land being the prospective location of a local Jewish cemetery, 1851), 1852-53.
Ref. no. 4816: Files regarding the pretension taken against Lejba Srólowicz [Srulowicz] to the Town of Augustów for the delivery of comestibles in the year 1807, in replacement of this same Town, for the French Army, 1817-25.
Ref. no. 5368: Synagogues in Warsaw, 1842.
Ref. nos. 5522-5538: Acquisition of houses by Jews in the city of Warsaw, 1827-62.
Ref. no. 5559: ‘Hoof fee’ (kopytkowe – charged for driving of cattle through the turnpike) paid in the city of Warsaw, 1817-[40].
Ref. nos. 5560-5573: ‘Turnpike fee’ [rogatkowe] paid in the city of Warsaw, 1829-67.
Ref. no. 5574: Fee charged from Jews in Warsaw for stamping of property leases, 1830-[42].
Ref. nos. 5628-5647: Administration of ticket income from alien Jews in Warsaw, 1822-67.
Ref. no. 5703: Request of ‘Old-Test.’ (a Jew) Peltl Ickowicz Wolf for release from ‘ticket fee’ (biletowe) in Warsaw, 1832-[3].
Ref. nos. 5730-5735: Kosher giblets for Jews in Warsaw, 1824-64.
Ref. no. 5747: Increased number of ‘exempted’ streets and amended regulations regarding acquisition of real estate by Jews in the city of Warsaw, 1857-[61].
Ref. no. 5749: Taxes and organisation of the Warsaw Jewry, 1808.
Ref. nos. 5751-5754: Regulations on removal of Jews from ‘select’ streets of the city of Warsaw, 1809-63.
Ref. nos. 5755-5757: Regulations on restriction of the influx of Jews into the city of Warsaw, 1816-63.
Ref. no. 5797: Permanent employee contribution charged to Jews in Warsaw, 1845-7.
Ref. nos. 5801-5819: Restriction on the influx of Jews into Warsaw, 1824-51.
Ref. nos. 5909-5933: Removal of Jews from ‘select’ streets of the City of Warsaw.
Ref. no. 5974: Permission to enter Jews in the register of residents in Warsaw, 1843-[9].
Ref. no. 6577: Landed estates possessed by Jews,1849-[61]).
Ref. no. 6578: The merits of Mr. Jakub Epstein on account of his services rendered in a public profession, 1817-[52].
Ref. no. 6579: The Old Testament (Jewish) religious communities in the kingdom, 1865-8.
Ref. no. 6580: The Old Testament Religious Community in Warsaw, 1867-8.
Ref. no. 6582: The murder of Christian children by the Jews, 1816-47.
Ref. nos. 6583-6596: Jews purchasing real estate in the Kingdom of Poland, 1808-65.
Ref. nos. 6597-6598: Jews getting settled on farmlands, 1823-61.
Ref. no. 6599: Geleitzoll fees charged to Jews, 1837-[51].
Ref. no. 6600: Jews getting organised resultant from remarks voiced by the St Petersburg Committee and motions proposed by Sir [Moses] Montefiore, 1844-58.
Ref. nos. 6601-6605: Civil rights for Jews, 1808-51)
Ref. nos. 6606-6609: Jews in the Kingdom of Poland assuming permanent surnames, 1821-57.
Ref. nos. 6610-6615: ‘Citizenship of prominence’ for Jews, 1841-67.
Ref. no. 6616: Conversion of Jews in the kingdom, 1845-60.
Ref. nos. 6617-6618: Regulations for acquisition of landed estates and municipal realties by Jews, 1850-[57].
Ref. no. 6619-6624: Jews evicted from the side of Austria and Prussia, 1851-67.
Ref. nos. 6625-6626: Restriction on the influx of Jews into Warsaw, 1841-53.
Ref. nos. 6627-6633: Installing and organising the Jews in the Kingdom of Poland, 1807-66.
Ref. nos. 6634-6636: Acta generalia on installing and organising the Jews, 1815-45.
Ref. nos. 6637-6638: Removal of Jews from taverns at high-roads,1840-56.
Ref. nos. 6639-6642: Ban on Jews residing at the distance of three miles from the border of Prussia, Austria and Russia,1823-52.
Ref. nos. 6643-6650: Alterations in the attire of ‘the Old-Testament ones’, 1845-67.
Ref. no. 6651: Records regarding Icek Ewanson, resident in the town of Mohylew (Mogilev), for entering the same in the residents’ register, 1848-[64].
Ref. no. 6708: Acta generalia regarding the prohibition on trading, fabrication, and tap-rooming (distributing through taprooms) of liquor to Jews,1811-16.
Ref. no. 6709: Acta universalia on licensing and retail trading in liquors, 1811-19.
Ref. no. 6744: Charity relief granted by Prince Czartoryski to ‘the Old Testament’ at Puławy, governorate of Lublin, 1832-[51].
Ref. nos. 6910-6911: Kosher tax charged to Jews, 1809-[68])
Ref. no. 6912: Particular Jewish records regarding the kosher [kashrut] and the krupka (Jewish contribution fee), 1809-[11].
Ref. no. 7126: English missionaries converting Jews into the Christian faith, 1822-35.
Ref. no. 7319: Jews deported from the town of Łomża for false denunciations, 1855-[64].
Ref. no. 8039: Records regarding the bequest of Szmul Herman, 1863-79.
Ref. no. 8065: Records regarding the bequest of Fajwel Opoczyński, 1866.
- Archival history:
- Of the commission’s archive, general administration section, a portion of the records of the administration and police department has survived (1,844 units in total), plus the complete municipal affairs section (6,164 units). Numerous plans and drawings have been separated from the fund, mainly architectural and town planning; these are kept today at the Cartography Collection of the AGAD.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Established in 1815, the commission was reorganised many times and renamed the Government Commission of Internal Affairs and the Police (1815-31); Government Commission for Internal, Clerical and Public Enlightenment Affairs (1832-9); Government Commission for Internal and Clerical Affairs (1839-61), Government Commission for Internal Affairs (1861-4); Government Commission for Internal and Clerical Affairs (1864-7); and Government Commission of Internal Affairs (1867-8). The body was the highest public administration authority until it was wound up in 1868.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Ewanson, Icek
- Herman, Szmul
- Ickowicz Wolf, Peltl
- Opoczyński, Fajwel
- Silbersztajn, Abuś
- Srólowicz, Lejba
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is divided into two sections: administration and police (1844 units in total) and municipal affairs (6,164 units).
- Finding aids:
-
Online finding aid available. Inventory available in the reading room of the archive.
Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych w Warszawie, Przewodnik po zasobie, vol. 2: Epoka porozbiorowa, ed. F. Ramotowska, (Warsaw, 1998).
Małgorzata Kośka, Materiały do dziejów Żydów na ziemiach polskich w XIX w. w zbiorach Archiwum Głównego Akt Dawnych, w: Źródła archiwalne do dziejów Żydów w Polsce, ed. Bolesław Woszczyński and Violetta Urbaniak (Warsaw, 2001), 31-56.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Author of the description:
- Marcin Wodziński; University of Wroclaw; 2015
