Metadata : Grodno Province Jewish Vital Records
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- State Archives in Białystok
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Państwowe w Białymstoku
- Postal address:
- Adama Mickiewicza 101, 15-257 Białystok
- Phone number:
- +48 85 743 56 03
- Web address:
- http://www.bialystok.ap.gov.pl/
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- State Archives in Białystok
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Państwowe w Białymstoku
- Postal address:
- Adama Mickiewicza 101, 15-257 Białystok
- Phone number:
- +48 85 743 56 03
- Web address:
- http://www.bialystok.ap.gov.pl/
- Reference number:
- 4/545/0
- Title:
- Grodno Province Jewish Vital Records
- Title (official language):
- Akta stanu cywilnego wyznania mojżeszowego z terenu guberni grodzieńskiej
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal administration in Grodno province
- Date(s):
- 1835/1873
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.02 linear metres (5 folders)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The vital records of persons of the Mosaic faith from the area of Grodno province are part of a larger whole, which has been divided into the following groups: 4/545/0 – Vital records of persons of the Jewish Confession from the area of Grodno province in 1835-1873; 4/545/1 – Vital records of the Synagogue District in Bielsk Podlaski for the years 1835-1836; 4/545/2 – Vital records of the Synagogue District in Orla from 1836-1873; 4/545/3 – Vital records of the Synagogue District in Zdzięcioł, Słonim county, Grodno province from 1836-1873.
Collection 4/545/0 comprises vital records in the Synagogue District of Bielsk Podlaski:
4/545/0 / - / 1 Vital records of the Synagogue District in Bielsk Podlaski Book of births, marriages and deaths of the Bielsko Jewish Community for 1835
4/545/0 / - / 2 Vital records of the Synagogue District in Bielsk Podlaski, Certificates issued on the basis of birth records from 1842 and 1871 and marriage records from 1868
4/545/0 / - / 3 List of Jewish births, marriages and deaths in Bielsko county from the Jewish communities of Orla and Boćki in 1836
4/545/0 / - / 4 Birth certificates in Orla for 1846 and marriage certificates issued in Orla 1860
4/545/0 / - / 5 list of death in the Jewish Community in Zdzięcioł, Słonim county, Grodno province for 1846.
- Archival history:
- By the order of the prince governor of 3 November 1825, mayors or their deputies were appointed to register vital records for non-Christian denominations (Jews and Muslims). A regulation of the Administrative Council of 7 September 1830 was also announced for Jews, according to which rabbis were to enter appropriate information into their vital records after the completion of a religious rite. Rabbis were required to keep a register divided into three parts: birth, marriages and deaths. This register, as a duplicate, was to be closed each year and submitted to the mortgage archive of the competent court of the peace. One copy was left at the place of registration. This was the original register consisting of three volumes (births, marriages and deaths). Original and duplicates had to have numbered pages. Entries in the registers of marital status were initially kept in Polish, and in Russian from 1 January 1868, pursuant to the regulation of the Organising Committee in the Kingdom of Poland. However, the legal provisions regarding the form of the record remained unchanged.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
From 1807, the former counties of the Prussian partition: Białystok and Bielsko, a large part of Drohiczyn (without Wysokie Mazowieckie) and Suraż (without Tykocin) formed the Białystok Oblast, which was part of the Russian Empire. The oblast had the status of a governorate and included four counties: Białystok, Bielsko, Drohiczyn and Sokółka. Until 1842, it was a separate administrative unit of the Russian Empire. Then the oblast was incorporated into Grodno province, which was under the supreme administrative authority of the Russian Grand Duke. During World War I, there was a dispute over the ownership of the lands of the Grodno region. In the years 1919–1921, the territories of the oblast finally became part of the Second Polish Republic, creating in large part Białystok Province.
Jews appeared in Bielsk Podlaski as early as the 15th century. At that time, they did not create a community due to their small number (several families). A Jewish community was in existence in the town by 1542. A synagogue was also mentioned. Censuses from 1580 and 1591 do not show Jews in Bielsk Podlaski, which would mean that there were no Jews in Bielsko at the end of the 16th century. They settled in Bielsk again at the end of the 18th century. Officially, Jews were allowed to settle in Bielsk only at the turn of 1802/1803. A Jewish community was established in 1807.
- Access points: locations:
- Bielsk Podlaski
- Boćki
- Zdzięcioł
- Finding aids:
-
Księgi metrykalnego i stanu cywilnego w archiwach państwowych w Polsce. Informator [Parish Records and Vital Records in State Archives in Poland. A Catalogue], ed. Anna Laszuk, Warszawa 1998;
Tomasz Wiśniewski, Bóżnice Białostocczyzny. Żydzi w Europie Wschodniej do roku 1939 [Synagogues in the Białystok Region. Jews in Eastern Europe until 1939], Białystok 1992.
An online finding aid is also available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Urszula Gierasimiuk, 2018
- Reference number:
- 4/545/0
- Title:
- Grodno Province Jewish Vital Records
- Title (official language):
- Akta stanu cywilnego wyznania mojżeszowego z terenu guberni grodzieńskiej
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal administration in Grodno province
- Date(s):
- 1835/1873
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.02 linear metres (5 folders)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The vital records of persons of the Mosaic faith from the area of Grodno province are part of a larger whole, which has been divided into the following groups: 4/545/0 – Vital records of persons of the Jewish Confession from the area of Grodno province in 1835-1873; 4/545/1 – Vital records of the Synagogue District in Bielsk Podlaski for the years 1835-1836; 4/545/2 – Vital records of the Synagogue District in Orla from 1836-1873; 4/545/3 – Vital records of the Synagogue District in Zdzięcioł, Słonim county, Grodno province from 1836-1873.
Collection 4/545/0 comprises vital records in the Synagogue District of Bielsk Podlaski:
4/545/0 / - / 1 Vital records of the Synagogue District in Bielsk Podlaski Book of births, marriages and deaths of the Bielsko Jewish Community for 1835
4/545/0 / - / 2 Vital records of the Synagogue District in Bielsk Podlaski, Certificates issued on the basis of birth records from 1842 and 1871 and marriage records from 1868
4/545/0 / - / 3 List of Jewish births, marriages and deaths in Bielsko county from the Jewish communities of Orla and Boćki in 1836
4/545/0 / - / 4 Birth certificates in Orla for 1846 and marriage certificates issued in Orla 1860
4/545/0 / - / 5 list of death in the Jewish Community in Zdzięcioł, Słonim county, Grodno province for 1846.
- Archival history:
- By the order of the prince governor of 3 November 1825, mayors or their deputies were appointed to register vital records for non-Christian denominations (Jews and Muslims). A regulation of the Administrative Council of 7 September 1830 was also announced for Jews, according to which rabbis were to enter appropriate information into their vital records after the completion of a religious rite. Rabbis were required to keep a register divided into three parts: birth, marriages and deaths. This register, as a duplicate, was to be closed each year and submitted to the mortgage archive of the competent court of the peace. One copy was left at the place of registration. This was the original register consisting of three volumes (births, marriages and deaths). Original and duplicates had to have numbered pages. Entries in the registers of marital status were initially kept in Polish, and in Russian from 1 January 1868, pursuant to the regulation of the Organising Committee in the Kingdom of Poland. However, the legal provisions regarding the form of the record remained unchanged.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
From 1807, the former counties of the Prussian partition: Białystok and Bielsko, a large part of Drohiczyn (without Wysokie Mazowieckie) and Suraż (without Tykocin) formed the Białystok Oblast, which was part of the Russian Empire. The oblast had the status of a governorate and included four counties: Białystok, Bielsko, Drohiczyn and Sokółka. Until 1842, it was a separate administrative unit of the Russian Empire. Then the oblast was incorporated into Grodno province, which was under the supreme administrative authority of the Russian Grand Duke. During World War I, there was a dispute over the ownership of the lands of the Grodno region. In the years 1919–1921, the territories of the oblast finally became part of the Second Polish Republic, creating in large part Białystok Province.
Jews appeared in Bielsk Podlaski as early as the 15th century. At that time, they did not create a community due to their small number (several families). A Jewish community was in existence in the town by 1542. A synagogue was also mentioned. Censuses from 1580 and 1591 do not show Jews in Bielsk Podlaski, which would mean that there were no Jews in Bielsko at the end of the 16th century. They settled in Bielsk again at the end of the 18th century. Officially, Jews were allowed to settle in Bielsk only at the turn of 1802/1803. A Jewish community was established in 1807.
- Access points: locations:
- Bielsk Podlaski
- Boćki
- Zdzięcioł
- Finding aids:
-
Księgi metrykalnego i stanu cywilnego w archiwach państwowych w Polsce. Informator [Parish Records and Vital Records in State Archives in Poland. A Catalogue], ed. Anna Laszuk, Warszawa 1998;
Tomasz Wiśniewski, Bóżnice Białostocczyzny. Żydzi w Europie Wschodniej do roku 1939 [Synagogues in the Białystok Region. Jews in Eastern Europe until 1939], Białystok 1992.
An online finding aid is also available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Urszula Gierasimiuk, 2018
