Metadata: Judicial Institutions, Courts, and Lawyers, Prosecutors, Notaries
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Chernivtsi Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Чернівеської області
- Reference number:
- Фонд 118, Опис. 1-3
- Title:
- Judicial Institutions, Courts, and Lawyers, Prosecutors, Notaries
- Title (official language):
- Установи юстиції, суду та прокуратури, адвокатура, нотаріат
- Creator/accumulator:
- Chernivtsi Regional Tribunal
- Date(s):
- 1919/1944
- Date note:
- 1919-1940; 1941-1944
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 67,209 archival units/folders (11 inventories)
- Scope and content:
-
This collection contains the records created by the Ministry of Justice in Bukovina (City of Chernivtsi). It deals with judicial issues that occurred as Bukovina transitioned from a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to a part of Romania, including the liquidation of Austro-Hungarian judicial and legal structures. 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.
The collection includes court cases involving local Jewish residents, including requests for “certificates of good conduct”, regulating the practices of Jewish lawyers, and Jewish residents tried in/filing cases brought to county tribunals, parish courts, and larger appeals courts. These cases fall into the following categories relevant to Jewish history: criminal, political, citizenship, regulation of Jewish institutions, family law and commercial activity.
Regulation of Jewish institutions: Cases include: legal rulings on Jews practicing religion and/or conducting business during Romanian national/religious holidays in 1920 and 1925; Jews tried for failing to learn Romanian; registration of Jewish organisations; lawsuits on behalf of the Jewish community against members; liquidation of Jewish organisations.
Citizenship issues: As Romania took over parts of Bukovina, debates arose whether to grant Jewish residents Romanian citizenship. This collection contains relevant records, including cases of citizens of foreign countries living in the area; appealing citizenship decisions; requests for Romanian citizenship; registering births; case for the establishment of citizenship and nationality; religious conversions; and falsification of passports and other documents.
Family law: Cases of Jewish residents on family issues such as divorce, alimony payments, and estates and inheritance.
Business: Cases of Jewish businessmen facing fines for conducting business without property permits, requisition of property due to unpaid taxes, and requesting permits to open, operate, and close businesses.
Political: Cases of Jewish residents facing political crimes, including printing anti-monarchy, socialist, and other outlawed political material, avoiding the draft, and government shutting down newspapers on the basis of ideological differences.
- Access points: locations:
- Chernivtsi
- Yerusha Network member:
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
