Metadata: Fragments of the fonds of the Jewish Town in Kazimierz - collection of the remnants of the fonds (Acta iudaica Casimiriensia)
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- National Archives in Krakow
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie
- Postal address:
- ul. Sienna 16, 30–960 Kraków
- Phone number:
- (+48 12) 422 40 94; (+48 12) 4212790; (+48 12) 421 68 81
- Web address:
- http://ank.gov.pl/
- Email:
- sekretariat@ank.gov.pl
- Reference number:
- PL 29/35
- Title:
- Fragments of the fonds of the Jewish Town in Kazimierz - collection of the remnants of the fonds (Acta iudaica Casimiriensia)
- Title (official language):
- Fragmenty zespołów miasta żydowskiego na Kazimierzu pod Krakowem - zbiór szczątków zespołów (Acta iudaica Casimiriensia)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Community of Kazimierz
- Date(s):
- 1550/1860
- Language:
- Latin
- Polish
- Hebrew
- German
- Extent:
- 0.4 linear metres (13 units)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection consists of records produced by several institutions associated with Krakow and/or Kazimierz.
The collection chiefly consists of records of various courts of law and institutions as collected by the authorities of Krakow/Kazimierz in connection with pending lawsuits and disputes.
The collection comprises various types of documents related to the judicature including petitions and actions, court verdicts, appeals, rabbis’ judgements, court materials of use in historiographical research into the Jewish community of Kazimierz, registers of Jewish guilds, wills, bequests and legacies, financial settlements and similar legal acts.
Jewish-related elements appear in the following units:
Jud. Cas. 1: Rabbinical court in Kazimierz, 1764-1805 (in Hebrew).
Jud. Cas. 2: Record of the rabbinical courts in Kazimierz since 1779 (in Hebrew).
Jud. Cas. 3 (formerly III/11/3): Record of the files of the Austrian Gubernium, a body based in Lwów, or of the Starosty in Wieliczka, for cases regarding Kazimierz-residing Jews, 1 July 1774-1 August 1775.
Jud. Cas. 4 (formerly III/11/4): Official census of Jewish families of Kazimierz and surrounding area, dated 1796.
Jud. Cas. 5 (formerly III/11/5): Court for Jews, reporting to the Lwów-based Gubernium, 14 September 1774-11 February 1775.
Jud. Cas. 6. (formerly III/11/6): Dekret Massy Jakoba Gąmplowicza/Gąplowicza Pejsaka Jakubowicza – a decree of the Principal of the estate of Jakob Gąmplowicz/Gąplowicz Pejsak Jakubowicz issued by the commissioner’s court in Kazimierz on 29 November 1790, inserted subsequently into the registers of the voivode’s court, from which an official extract has been made; 12 March 1792.
Jud. Cas. 7. (formerly III/11/7): Voivode’s adjudication of the Jews, 1565-1793 (1 April 1565, 1 February 1622-1793).
Jud. Cas. 8. (formerly III/11/8). Records concerning Jewish residents in Krakow and Kazimierz (1405-1792). Records of use to historiographers of the Kazimierz synagogue and community, 1553-1798 (including a registry of Jews in jurydykas and a list of Jewish houses).
Jud. Cas. 9. (formerly III/11/9): Private records 1550-1831, comprising a dossier of the rabbinical court (translated) and of other courts, regarding Jews; and private records (testaments and wills, bequests and legacies).
Jud. Cas. 10 (formerly III/11/10): Register of the filial guild of Jewish shoemakers, 1833-60.
Jud. Cas. 11 (formerly III/11/11): Register of the Jewish bakers’ filial guild, 8 June 1834-18 October 1857.
Jud. Cas. 11 (formerly III/11/12). Register of the accounts of the filial guild of Old Testament (Jewish) goldsmiths, 21 October 1834-19 December 1859 (in Polish).
Two of the units are written in Hebrew; records in other units feature Hebrew signatures.
- Archival history:
- Originating in the Jewish community of Kazimierz, the core of this collection has been signed out from the archive of the town of Kazimierz (K 928-933, K 935-936). An annotation placed on one of the books indicates that one of the volumes purchased in the archive was donated in the 1890s; these registers have formed a separate collection.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Various institutions produced the documents in the collection, including the authorities of Krakow, the Jewish community in Kazimierz, the voivode’s court of Krakow (see description of collection 29/25), the Austrian authorities of Galicia between 1795 and 1815 and the Free City of Krakow, 1815-46, which in 1833-4 launched filial guilds for Old Testament believers (Jews); official registers of actions have been set up for these institutions. Some documents were generated by private persons.
- System of arrangement:
- The records are arranged by producer, mostly chronologically.
- Access, restrictions:
- If a copy (microfilm, scan, photocopy) of a document exists, this is what will be made available. Access to the originals requires the consent of the Director.
- Finding aids:
-
Inventory available online.
An inventory in Polish is available in the reading room.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Author of the description:
- Janusz S. Dąbrowski; Kraków; 2015
