Metadata: Local Municipal Institutions
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Chernivtsi Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Чернівеської області
- Reference number:
- Фонд 43, Опис. 1-5
- Title:
- Local Municipal Institutions
- Title (official language):
- Установи місцевого самоврядування
- Creator/accumulator:
- Mayor of Chernivtsi (Czernowitz, Cernauti)
- Date(s):
- 1918/1944
- Date note:
- 1918-1940; 1941-1944
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Polish
- Extent:
- 26,746 archival units (6 inventories)
- Scope and content:
-
This collection consists of documents from the Chernivtsi (Czernowitz, Cernauti) Mayor’s office, established as the Bukovina region transitioned from a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to a part of Romania. This collection concludes in 1944 when Bukovina became a part of the Soviet Union and has a break from 1940-1941 when the fate of Bukovina became uncertain as the territory was passed between Nazi-allied Romania and the Soviet Union during WWII.
This collection includes documents on citizenship for the Jewish residents of Chernivtsi, government relations with the local Jewish business community, and government relations with society, including Jewish organisations.
As Romania took over Bukovina, debates arose whether to grant Jewish residents Romanian citizenship. This collection includes requests from Jews to obtain Romanian citizenship, correspondence with foreign consulates about citizenship and emigration, requests for ethnic origin certificates, birth, death, and marriage certificates for Jewish residents, and investigations into Jewish residents without citizenship. Included in this section is a document of 1920 outlining the policy for Jewish residents who wish to become citizens in the event of divorces and name changes. In addition, the government compiled a list of eligible voters in Chernivtsi from 1919-1940 and statistical tables of the population by nationality from 1931-1936, included in this record group.
This collection also includes government relations with the local Chernivtsi Jewish business owners, with documents on permits to conduct business [the liquor business was popular among Jews and this collection includes a great deal of requests for permits to sell and trade liquor], government paying reparations to business affected by WWI, issuing fines for operating businesses without proper permits, settling disputes between business owners, evaluating requests to open new businesses, regulating land sales and banking, and issuing policies on Jews who want to take time off work on religious holidays.
Finally, this record group contains documents on local government relations with Chernivtsi Jewish organisations including information pertaining the Jewish institutions chartered under the Austro-Hungarian Еmpire (including Zionist, religious, and charitable organisations) requesting approval from the new Romanian authorities, the selection of a new Jewish community council, issuing permits for ritual observances and meetings, overseeing rabbinical elections and religious conversions, processing requests for government subsidies of Jewish organisations, and reports from the Jewish community on their administrative structure and oversight of organisations. In 1920, the government ordered an official investigation into the administrative and economic activities of the organised Jewish community, a report included in this collection. Later, the government conducted an investigation into all Zionist organisations who were preparing Romanian citizens for emigration to Palestine. The local government also compiled lists of Jews receiving food from the Jewish soup kitchen. With regard to general society, this collection also includes a list of all social, athletic, cultural etc. organisations in Chernivtsi.
- Access points: locations:
- Chernivtsi
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Food distribution
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Aliyah
- Citizenship
- Jewish community
- Legal matters
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Statistics
- Trade and commerce
- Trade and commerce--Alcohol trade
- Vital records
- Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties
- Yerusha Network member:
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
