Metadata: The Jewish Committee of Kazimierz and Chrzanów districts
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- National Archives in Krakow
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie
- Postal address:
- Oddział III, ul. Sienna 16, 30–960 Kraków
- Phone number:
- +48 12 4224094
- Web address:
- http://ank.gov.pl/
- Email:
- sekretariat@ank.gov.pl
- Reference number:
- 29/82/0
- Title:
- The Jewish Committee of Kazimierz and Chrzanów districts
- Title (official language):
- Komitet starozakonnych obwodu kazimierskiego i chrzanowskiego
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish committee of Kazmierz and Chrzanów districts; Kraków city council
- Date(s):
- 1817/1893
- Language:
- Polish
- Extent:
- 221 units; 4.96 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The majority of the collection consists of chronologically arranged tabular lists of taxpayers of the Jewish community in Kazimierz, income and expenses of an Israelite hospital. There are no materials about Jews from Chrzanów. The records are mainly of a financial and fiscal and statistical nature. The collection illustrates the amount of taxes paid by individual professional groups in the Jewish community, allowing for a partial reconstruction of the professional structure of the Jewish community and for estimating the level of wealth of individuals. The collection covers Kraków and localities near Kraków (rural communies), inhabited by Jews belonging to the Kraków community: Kościelniki, Mogiła, Modlnica, Balice, Rybna, Czernichów, Liszki, Zwierzyniec, Pisary. The most important Jewish-related records date from the period of the Free City of Kraków and the Republic of Kraków (1818-1846) and the Grand Duchy of Kraków (1846-1866). This collection is useful for researching the history of the Jewish population in Kraków in the pre-autonomous period, although to a limited extent (tax issues, hospital history); it is also useful for conducting genealogical research.
29/82/110 Jewish Committee. Contribution of the Israelite Community for 1866. It contains about 1700 Jewish surnames (taxpayers of the Jewish community in Kazimierz). Among the most prominent and influential Jewish families: Pinkus Atteslander, Moryc and Gustaw Baruch, Bauminger, Hochstim, Judkiewicz, Kamsler, Tilles.
29/82/111 Contribution of the Israelite community for the year 1866. Includes receipts (income receipts and receipts of paid sums), 95% of the names are the same as those mentioned in 29/92/110: Baruch (industrialist), Deiches Salomon, Ehrenpreis, Engelstein, Feintuch, Hochstim (a family of Jewish sculptors and stonemasons), Horowitz, Judkiewicz (a railway entrepreneur), Kamsler (foundry owners), Tilles.
29/82/112 Distribution of the contribution of the Israelite temple for 1867: Names: Pinkus Atteslander, Baruch, Bazes, Bauminger, Benis, Blatteis, Deiches, Ehrenpreis, Feintuch, Hochstim, Horowitz, Judkiewicz, Kamsler, Liban, Tilles.
29/82/113 Distribution of the contribution of the Jewish congregation for 1867 (the names are the same as those listed in 29/92/112). Józef Liban, an industrialist (information regarding tax arrears).
29/82/114 Distribution of the contribution of the Jewish congregation for 1868-1867 (the names are the same as those listed in 29/92/113 and 29/82/112).
29/82/209 Information on the removal of the municipal income tax on land thanks to the efforts of Dr. Warschauer (1867), letters from members of the Bauminger family regarding the avoidance of the obligation to pay for the drainage channel (genealogical materials).
The most frequently mentioned names on almost all the tax lists are: Abeles, Absyl, Adler, Agatstein, Allerhand, Anisfeld, Apfelbaum, Apter, Auerbach, Banet, Better, Berman, Bernstein, Birkner, Blatteis, Bleicher, Blum, Blumenfeld, Cypres, Dalet, Danglowicz, Deiches, Dattelbaum, Danzig, Deitscher, Dembitzer, Drobner, Dunkelbaum, Dreier, Eichorn, Eibenschutz, Englestein, Erlich, Feintuch, Feiler, Feiner, Fendler, Gleitzman, Glucklich, Goldberg, Goldmann, Hirschprung, Hirschtein, Hochberger, Hochbaum, Hollander, Hofmann, Holzer, Isenberg, Karmel, Landau, Thorn, Tinberg.
- Archival history:
- At the time of their creation, the records of the Jewish Committee of the Kazimierz and Chrzanów districts were kept in the archives of the Kazimierz and Chrzanów communes, respectively. After they were confirmed, they were transferred to the Kraków magistrate. Until 1846, the files were kept in the Archives of the Free City of Kraków (in the so-called Senate Archives), then from 1887 they were kept in the Archives of Historical Records of the City of Kraków. The administrative records of the Jewish Committee for the Kazimierz district and the correspondence were lost. The records of the Chrzanów district have been entirely lost. In 1984, the records were transferred by the State Archives in Kraków to an external warehouse. In the years 2000-2020, the records were stored in the Kraków Archives storage in Spytkowice.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Committee of the Jews of Kazimierz and Chrzanów (1817-1893) was a Jewish quasi self-government body with limited powers (control of the community's funds and the Jewish hospital) representing the interests of Jews from Kraków, Chrzanów and nearby villages. It was subordinate until 1846 to the Internal Affairs and Police Department of the Ruling Senate and after 1846 to the Administrative Council of the Kraków District). Initially, it was composed of one Christian delegated by the authorities of the Republic of Kraków (later from the Krakow magistrate), a local rabbi and the two Jews who paid the highest taxes (later also four deputies), and a secretary. The lists of paid tax contributions were signed by four members of the committee and then approved by the Kraków magistrate. In the years 1853-1863, they were approved by the Municipal Department (in place of the abolished Kraków magistrate). From 1866, the income and expenses of the Jewish population, i.e. tax lists and budget statements presented by the Committee, were approved by the Jewish Department of the City Council for Israelite Affairs, which became the only representation of the Krakow Jewish community. With the appointment of the new authorities of the autonomous Jewish community in 1870 and as a result of personal disputes, the Committee began to lose its importance. The Jewish hospital in Kazimierz was established in 1821 and was located on Skawińska street.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abeles
- Absyl
- Adler
- Agatstein
- Anisfeld
- Apter
- Atteslander, Pinkus
- Auerbach
- Banet
- Baruch
- Baruch, Gustaw
- Baruch, Moryc
- Bauminger
- Benis
- Bernstein
- Better
- Birkner
- Blatteis
- Bleicher
- Blum
- Blumenfeld
- Cypres
- Dalet
- Danglowicz
- Dattelbaum
- Deiches
- Deitscher
- Dembitzer
- Dreier
- Dunkelbaum
- Ehrenpreis
- Eibenschütz
- Eichorn
- Engelstein
- Englestein
- Feintuch
- Fendler
- Gleitzman
- Glucklich
- Goldmann
- Hirschprung
- Hirschtein
- Hochbaum
- Hochberger
- Holländer
- Horowitz
- Isenberg
- Judkiewicz
- Landau
- Liban
- Liban, Józef
- Tilles
- Tinberg
- System of arrangement:
-
The collection comprises the following sub-series:
1. Account books of the Jewish Fund of the Kazimierz and Chrzanów districts 1818-1869 (hospital income and expenses, hospital daily reports, prescriptions, correspondence, contributions from Jews replacing kosher tax), ref. no. AŻ 1-122;
2. The Jewish Hospital in Kazimierz 1822-1869 (hospital income and expenses, hospital daily reports, prescriptions, correspondence), ref. no. AŻ 123-208;
3. Miscellaneous 1817-1893 (chancellery fund, residence permits, permits for market stalls) ref. no. AŻ 209-212.
- Finding aids:
-
A simplified inventory is available.
T. Mahler, Walka między ortodoksją a postępowcami w Krakowie w latach 1843-1868 (Komitet starozakonnych a Wydział dla Spraw Żydowskich), oprac. A. Maślak-Maciejewska, Kraków & Budapest 2017.
A. Jakimyszyn, Żydzi krakowscy w dobie Rzeczypospolitej Krakowskiej, Kraków & Budapest 2008.
A. Skotnicki, Szpital gminy wyznaniowej żydowskiej w Krakowie 1866-1941, Kraków 2013.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Przemysław Zarubin, Kraków, 2020
