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Minsk Jewish Community Council
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Folder 1: Jewish conscription , 1827 September-1828 January
Materials pertaining to Jewish conscription in the city of Minsk and Minsk district. These include correspondence to and from the Minsk Kahal, reports to the Governor of the Minsk Province and the Minsk Chief of Police, lists of Jewish recruits from the city of Minsk and surrounding towns, guidelines to produce conscription lists, cases of missing recruits and petitions to the Minsk Kahal to replace one family member for another
Folder 2: Jewish conscription , 1838 April-1839 October
Materials pertaining to Jewish conscription in the city of Minsk and Minsk district. These include correspondence between the Minsk Kahal, the Military Service Office of the Department of Revenue, the Minsk City Police and the District Attorney of Minsk on issues relating to conscription lists; reprimands by the Minsk City Police to the Minsk Kahal for submitting inaccurate conscription lists to the Department of Revenue; complaints and petitions to the Minsk Kahal by Minsk Jewish residents arguing that family members were wrongly included in conscription lists; and official resolutions of disputed cases of conscription
Folder 3: Jewish conscription , 1838 August-1839 April
Materials pertaining to the implementation of Jewish conscription in 1838, in the city of Minsk and Minsk district. These include the official order by the Minsk City Police on Jewish conscription, August 1838; copies of Imperial decrees, signed by Nicholas I, regarding conscription of Jews, August, 1838; correspondence between the Minsk Kahal and city authorities about fulfilling the requirements for Jewish conscription for the year 1838; lists of Minsk Jewish families with members eligible for recruitment, and reasons for discharge from conscription of other family members; lists of conscripted Jews; report of the Recruitment Office of the Minsk Province to the Minsk City Police on cases of conscripted Jews who failed to register for conscription; notifications of arrest of conscripted Jews who failed to register for conscription
Folder 4: Jewish conscription , 1838 September-1839 June
Materials pertaining to Jewish conscription in the city of Minsk and Minsk district. These include statements by family members to the Minsk Kahal, notifying that the conscripted son is in fact deceased and requesting that other male children not be enlisted for military service; death certificates issued by Jewish religious bodies or civil offices in Minsk and surrounding towns and submitted to the Minsk Kahal by family members as evidence of death of conscripted sons; correspondence between the Minsk Kahal, the Military Service Office of the Department of Revenue and the Minsk City Police about increase and decrease in recruitment figures from September 1838 through June 1839; lists of Jews who can be added to conscription lists, and Jews who, for a variety of reasons (death, exile to Siberia, conscripted the year before), cannot be enlisted for the period September 1838 through June 1839
Folder 5: On preventing Jews from deserting the military service , 1839
Materials pertaining to prevention measures against vagabondage and desertion of Jewish draftees. These include an official order by the Minsk Civil Governor on actions to be taken against conscription runaways, March 1839; an instruction from the Minsk Chief of Police to the Minsk Kahal to display the Governor’s order against desertion in the proximity of the city’s synagogues; letter from the Minsk Kahal to the overseers of the Minsk synagogues instructing them to make public and promulgate in Yiddish translation the Governor’s order about uprooting the tendency to conceal conscription fugitives, March 1839
Folder 6: Petitions, Jewish conscription , 1840 March-1841 June
Materials pertaining to Jewish conscription in the city of Minsk and Minsk district. These include petitions to the Minsk Kahal by Minsk Jewish residents asking to discharge a family member from military service and petitions of individuals, mostly from destitute social background, stating their desire to be conscripted in lieu of draftees from other families (most petitions are by parents or older siblings on behalf of the family member because of his young age); documents confirming the age of the draftee; health certificate issued by the Minsk Jewish Hospital; a discharge certificate issued by the Gorodishche Jewish community confirming that one of its members may be drafted instead of a Minsk family member; and resolutions by the Minsk Kahal endorsing the petitions
Folder 7: Petitions, Jewish conscription , 1841 January-October
Materials pertaining to Jewish conscription in the city of Minsk and Minsk district. These include a petition to the Minsk Kahal by a father asking to summon his son - who moved to Lyuban, Poltava guberniia, without his permission-for enrollment in the military service and documents relating to this case (including correspondence between the Minsk Kahal and the Minsk Head of Police, the Lyuban Police and the Minsk Municipal Duma); a decree by the Minsk Province Administration regarding a father’s petition to discharge his son from military service so that he can pursue his studies in gimnaziia, and documents related to this case (including correspondence between the Department of Education of the Minsk province and the Minsk Province Administration, and between the Minsk Kahal and the Minsk City Police)
Folder 8: Corruption, Jewish conscription , 1841 January-April
Documents pertaining to the Minsk Kahal’s mishandling of Jewish conscription matters in the city of Minsk and Minsk district. These include correspondence between the Minsk Kahal, the Minsk Criminal Court and the Minsk Chief of Police; records of expenses and revenue of the Minsk Kahal; lists of Jews involved in corruption cases; lists of Jews who were conscripted in lieu of other individuals, including the names of those they replaced; lists of indigent Jews who were granted residence permit by the Minsk Kahal for recruitment purposes
Folder 9: Minsk Kahal, resolutions , 1841 January-November
Resolutions by the Minsk Kahal and the Society for Jewish Conscription mostly pertaining to Jewish conscription in the city of Minsk and Minsk district. These include the Minsk Kahal’s endorsement of petitions by individuals who wish to be conscripted in lieu of draftees from other families; petition by a grandmother and grandfather of a Minsk Jewish resident stating that the boy wishes to be “voluntarily” (dobrovolno) conscripted in lieu of a draftee from another Minsk Jewish family, and stating that as the primary care-givers, they give their approval to the boy’s conscription; petition by the member of the Gorodetskii (Gorodishche) Jewish community who asks to serve in the military in lieu of a member of the Minsk Jewish community.
The materials also include the report of a Minsk tax-collector concerning Jews who failed to pay their dues to the Kahal, and the Kahal’s resolution about penalties for those who neglect to pay taxes
Folder 10: Jewish conscription , 1843 August
Documents pertaining to the case of two Minsk brothers who went into hiding during the 1840 recruitment campaign. These include the Minsk Chief of Police order of forcible conscription of the two brothers and a report by the Minsk Kahal to the Minsk Department of Revenue regarding the case
Folder 11: On compiling conscription lists , 1843 June
Materials pertaining to the compilation and submission of conscription lists to the Minsk Department of Revenue. These include an order from the Minsk City Police to the Minsk Kahal requesting to submit an updated conscription list for 1843 to the Department of Revenue; an Imperial decree outlining the guidelines for the compilation of conscription lists of Jews; information about the number of Jewish males listed in the Minsk Kahal tax-book; a report from the Minsk Kahal to the Minsk Municipal Duma regarding the creation of conscription lists; and statements to the Minsk Kahal by individuals affirming and providing evidence for the death of family members who were erroneously included in conscription lists
Folder 12: Medical treatment for Jewish recruits , 1843 February-September
Correspondence between the Minsk Kahal and several city authorities and institutions, such as the Minsk City Police, the Department of Revenue and the Minsk Hospitals, about providing medical treatment for Jewish recruits. The documents include local police-officers’ orders to the Minsk Kahal to cover medical expenses for Jewish recruits hospitalized in the Minsk City Hospital (Minskaia gorodskaa bolnitssa) and Minsk Military Hospital (Minskaia voennaia bolnitsa)
Folder 13: Birth registry, Zaslavie , 1866 January-December
Birth registry of Jews born in the town of Zaslavie, Minsk district
Folder 14: Death registry, Minsk , 1867 October-December
Incomplete death registry of Jews who died and were buried in the city of Minsk
Folder 15: Birth registry, Minsk , 1879-1900
Birth registry of Jews born in Minsk, January-December 1879. It also includes birth records of individuals born 1880-1900
Folder 16: Birth registry, Minsk , 1879-1900
Registry book of Jews born in the city of Minsk, December 1879 - December 1880. It also includes birth records of individuals born 1881-1900
Folder 17: Birth registry, Rakov , 1890 January-March
Incomplete birth registry of Jews born in the town of Rakov, Minsk district
Folder 18: Birth registry, Minsk , 1905 December-1906 December
Birth registry of Jews born in Minsk
Folder 19: Marriage registry, Osrtoshitsko-Gorodok , 1907
Marriage registry of Jews who married in the town of Osrtoshitsko-Gorodok, Minsk district
Folder 20: Death registry, Kaminsk , 1908
Death registry of Jews who died in the town of Kaminsk, Minsk district
Folder 21: Marriage registry, Minsk , 1914
Marriage registry of Jews who married in the city of Minsk
Folder 22: Birth registry, Minsk , 1917 January-December
Registry book of Jews born in the city of Minsk. It also includes a number of records of individuals who converted from Christianity to Judaism
Folder 23: Taxes, Minsk Kahal , 1825 January-1835 August
Materials pertaining to state taxation of the Jewish community. These include correspondence between the Minsk Chief of Police and the Minsk Kahal regarding the authentication of the Kahal’s account books of revenues and expenses and the collection of tax arrears; information about Minsk Jews appointed as tax collectors, and representatives of the community elected to assess taxes; report by the Minsk Kahal to the Minsk Civil Governor about Jews in the district and province of Minsk who failed to pay their taxes; lists of destitute Jews unable to pay taxes and of Jewish tax debtors
Folder 24: Taxes, Minsk Kahal , 1838 April-1838 December
Materials pertaining to state and Korobka taxation of the Jewish community. These include correspondence between the Minsk Kahal and the Minsk Chief of Police regarding tax debtors, collection of tax arrears and penalties for those tax payers who failed to cover their debts; and orders by the Minsk Municipal Duma to the Minsk Kahal regarding the Korobka and other special Jewish taxes
Folder 25: Taxes, Minsk Kahal , 1839
Minsk Kahal receipt-book of communal taxes. It provides information about tax collectors, amount of taxes collected each month and tax arrears
Folder 26: Taxes, Minsk Kahal , 1839
Minsk Kahal receipt-book of taxes paid by individuals registered in the Minsk Jewish community but who resided elsewhere
Folder 27 A: Taxes, Minsk Kahal , 1839 February – September
Minsk Kahal receipt-book of taxes paid by individuals residing in the city of Minsk
Folder 27 B: Taxes, Minsk Kahal , 1839 September – December
Minsk Kahal receipt-book of taxes paid by individuals residing in the city of Minsk
Folder 28: Taxes, Minsk Kahal , 1839
Minsk Kahal receipt-book of tax arrears paid by individuals residing in Minsk,
Folder 29: Taxes, Minsk Kahal , 1839
Minsk Kahal receipt-book of tax arrears paid by individuals registered in the Minsk Jewish community but who resided elsewhere
Folder 30: Financial records, Minsk Jewish Hospital , 1839 February
Materials pertaining to the finances of the Minsk Jewish Hospital. These include a report from the Jewish Hospital to the Minsk Kahal about the appointment of supervisors to review the institution’s financial records for 1838 and assess tax apportionment
Folder 31: Financial records, Minsk Jewish Hospital , 1841 February - November
Materials pertaining to the finances of the Minsk Jewish Hospital. These include a request from the Jewish Hospital to the Minsk Kahal to appoint supervisors to review the institution’s financial records for 1840 and assess tax apportionment for 1841
Folder 32: Tax apportionment, Minsk Kahal , 1841 November-1842 April
Materials pertaining to state tax apportionment by the Minsk Kahal. The documents include petitions and complaints by Minsk Jewish residents about the disproportionate tax allotment and the faulty collection procedures of the Minsk Kahal; correspondence between the Minsk Kahal, the Minsk Municipal Duma and the Minsk Chief of Police, regarding petitions and tax debtors; registers of tax payers whose tax dues should be reduced; cases of tax payers and tax debtors who did not reside in Minsk but were registered with the Minsk Jewish community, and notifications of local police authorities (in Igumen, Vitebsk, Slutsk, etc.) to the Minsk Chief of Police of arrears payment by members of the Minsk Jewish community; lists of tax payers whose tax dues should be reimbursed, including amount of refunds; and orders by the Minsk Municipal Duma to the Minsk Kahal in response to complaints by tax payers about disproportionate tax allotment
Folder 33: Tax receipts, Minsk Kahal , 1841
Tax receipts issued by the Minsk Treasury
Folder 34: Tax collection, Minsk Kahal , 1841 January-December
Materials pertaining to tax collection. These include requests by the Minsk Kahal to the Minsk City Police to enforce strict measures against tax debtors; correspondence between the Minsk Kahal and the Minsk District Treasury about the collection of state taxes (head tax and Korobka); letter by the Minsk Kahal to the Minsk Rabbi about confiscating the property of a deceased Jew who failed to pay taxes; correspondence between the Minsk Municipal Duma and the Minsk Kahal about the apportionment of taxes on local services
Folder 35: Litigation records regarding taxes, Minsk Kahal , 1837 August-circa March 1842
Litigation between members of the Minsk Kahal and private creditors over a financial loan, 1816-1842 ca. Includes a petition by the Minsk Kahal to be released from the payment of 1,000 rubles for lawsuit expenses for failing to pay off the loan and the accumulated interests to the creditors; correspondence between the Minsk Kahal and the Minsk City Police about the litigation; and resolutions by the Minsk Court of Justice and Civil Court regarding the lawsuit
Folder 36: Tax apportionment, Minsk Kahal , 1843 January-May
Materials pertaining to the appointment of supervisors to assess tax apportionment and other financial matters for the Minsk Kahal. These include the Minsk Municipal Duma order to the Minsk Kahal to appoint tax assessors; a petition to the Minsk Kahal by a newly appointed tax assessor asking to be released from his responsibility and to appoint someone else in his lieu; letter from the Minsk Chief of Police to the Minsk Kahal about levies on lodging services
Folder 37: Account book, Shivah Keruim Synagogue, Minsk , 1903
Account book of donations, revenues and expenses of the Minsk Synagogue Shivah Keruim
Folder 38: Account book, Bet Midrash, Samokhvalovichi , 1904
Account book of revenues and expenses of the Samokhvalovichi Bet Midrash, (also known as Kitaevskaia) on Slutskaia street
Folder 39: Account book, Bet Midrash, Kamen , 1904
Account book of non-monetary donations and expenses of a Bet Midrash (shkola) in Kamen
Folder 40: Account book, Synagogue, Ivenets , 1904
Account book of donations, revenues and expenses of the Ivenets Synagogue
Folder 41: Account book, Synagogue, Stolbtsy , 1905
Account book of donations, revenues and expenses of the New Synagogue in Stolbtsy, Minsk district
Folder 42: Account book, Minsk Choral Synagogue , 1908
Account book of non-monetary donations and expenses of the Minsk Choral Synagogue
Folder 43: Residential records, Minsk Kahal , 1836 December-1841 July
Materials pertaining to residential rights in Minsk and registration status in the Minsk Kahal. These include petitions to the Minsk Kahal by individuals wishing to obtain permanent residence (postoiannoe zhitel'stvo) in Minsk and be registered in the Minsk Jewish community for business purposes; certificates of permanent residence and registration in the local Jewish community issued to petitioners by the Minsk Kahal; lists of Jewish merchants, commoners and tradesmen in Minsk, who are permanent residents and pay taxes, but do not own property in the city; correspondence between the Minsk Kahal and local authorities about the case of a Jewish resident in the Minsk district who no longer resided in the location stated in the 1834 census
Folder 44: Residential records, Minsk Kahal , 1840 July-1841 July
Materials pertaining to the residence status of members of the Minsk Jewish community. These include correspondence between the Minsk City Police, the Department of Revenue and the Minsk Kahal about individuals who were not included in the population census; and regulations of the Minsk Civil Governor about issuing passports to Jews
Folder 45: Residential records, Minsk Kahal , 1841 February-1844 March
Materials pertaining to residential rights and registration status in the Minsk Jewish community and in Jewish communities in other provinces. These include petitions to the Minsk Kahal by individuals residing in Minsk who wished to obtain permanent residence elsewhere and be registered in the local Jewish community; request from the Minsk City Police to confirm that a number of individuals still belong to the Minsk Jewish community and reside in the city; and correspondence between Zemstvo courts (zemskii sud) and the Minsk Kahal regarding the residence status of a number of Jews.
The materials also include information about members of the Minsk Jewish community who have the right to participate in municipal elections
Folder 46: Membership records, Bet Midrash, Samokhvalovichi , 1903
Registry book of members of the Bet Midrash in Samokhvalovichi, on Koidenovskaia street. It includes member’s name, age and gender
Folder 47: Membership records, Bet Midrash, Samokhvalovichi , 1903
Registry book of members of the Bet Midrash in Samokhvalovichi (also known as Kitaevskaia) on Slutskaia street. It includes member’s name, age and gender
Folder 48: Membership records, Bet Midrash, Minsk , 1903
Registry book of members of the Lubavitcher Bet Midrash in Minsk. It includes member’s name, age and gender
Folder 49: Membership records, Main Synagogue (Glavnaia Sinagoga), Minsk , 1903
Registry book of members of the Main Synagogue (Glavnaia Sinagoga) in Minsk. It includes names of male members
Folder 50: Membership records, Bet Midrash, Samokhvalovichi , 1908
Registry book of members of the Bet Midrash in Samokhvalovichi (also known as Kitaevskaia) on Slutskaia street. It includes member’s name, age and gender
Folder 51: Death Notices , 1840 July
Death notices issued by family members to the Minsk Kahal
Folder 52: Petitions, Minsk Kahal , 1838 December-1839 September
Petitions to the Minsk Kahal. These include petitions to join the merchant corporation (kupechestvo) and be exempt from taxation and military obligations for commoners; certificates of corporation change (from commoner to merchant) issued by the Minsk Kahal; petition by a student of the Vilna Medical Academy asking the Minsk Kahal to issue a certificate stating that his brother is free from military service and may attend institutions of secondary and higher learning
Folder 53: Petitions, Minsk Kahal , 1841 January-December
Petitions by Minsk Jewish residents to the Minsk Kahal requesting official documents. These include requests for certificates confirming destitute status and inability to pay state taxes; requests for certificates of age, name or family status based on population census; petitions by gimnaziia students unable to pay tuition; petition by merchants and home-owners asking that a local chimney-sweeper be registered in the local trade-corporation; petition by a third guild merchant asking to be exempt from tax obligations for commoners
Folder 54: Petitions, Minsk Kahal , 1843 January-November
Petitions by Minsk Jewish residents to the Minsk Kahal requesting official documents. These include petitions to issue certificates confirming death, identity, age, property ownership, family membership, inheritance rights
Folder 55: Petitions, Minsk Kahal , 1844
Petitions by Minsk Jewish residents (and a number of Jews residing in surrounding districts) to the Minsk Kahal regarding a variety of matters including the payment of arrears, tax apportionment, military service, permanent residence, and change of corporation. The petitions are followed by the Minsk Kahal resolutions
Folder 56: Personal matters , 1841 March-1842 June
Materials pertaining to the divorce case of a Minsk Jewish soldier hospitalized in Tallinn. These include repeated requests from the Tallinn Military Hospital to the Minsk Kahal to confirm the divorce
Folder 57: Criminal and civil cases , 1835 December-1848 November
Materials pertaining to criminal and civil cases. These include reports by the Minsk City Police to the Minsk Kahal about the investigation of a Jewish pick-pocket in Minsk; a case of injuries and death caused by the collapsing wall in the city’s shul-hoyf; a case of pilfering; and the resolution by the Minsk Consolidated Criminal and Civil Courts (Minskaia soedinennaia palata ugolovnogo i grazhdanskogo suda) about a case of property litigation between Minsk residents
Folder 58: Various , 1839
Materials pertaining to the investigation of a case of two anonymous letters critical of local authorities, May 1839. These include the Minsk Chief of Police report on the incident and his order to distribute the report in the local synagogues, in Yiddish translation
Folder 59: Various , 1841 April-December
Materials pertaining to the collection of information about the civil status of Minsk Jewish residents. These include correspondence between the Minsk Kahal and local authorities such as the Minsk City Police, the Minsk Orphans’ Court, the Minsk City Magistrate and the Minsk Office of Investigation (Minskii sledstvennyi pristav) to verify the residential and registration status, age, date of death, census data and other civil matters of Minsk Jewish residents
Folder 60: Various , 1828 June-1844 June
Correspondence to and from the Minsk Kahal. The documents pertain to a variety of matters including military service, local Jewish institutions, communal taxes, debt, inheritance, registration and residence status, alimony, family relations, corporation change, and cases submitted to the Minsk bes-din (Minskii evreiskii dukhovnyi sud)
Folder 61: Lease-holding contracts , 1839 January-October
Materials pertaining to public auctions for lease-holding contracts of products or places, to take place in the Minsk Municipal Duma. These include orders by the Minsk Municipal Duma to the Minsk Kahal to announce forthcoming auctions in the city synagogues
Folder 62: Lease-holding contracts , 1841 March-December
Materials pertaining to public auctions for lease-holding contracts of products or places. These include orders by the Minsk Municipal Duma to the Minsk Kahal to summon contractors by distributing auction announcements in the city synagogues
Folder 63: Lease-holding contract , 1843 May-August
Materials pertaining to the public auction for tax farming on kosher meat in Minsk. These include the auction announcement by the Minsk Province Administration for the Korobka leasing in all the cities and shtetlekh of the Minsk province, for a four-year period (1844-1848)
Folder 64: Account book, Bet Midrash, Kapyl , 1862
Account book of revenues and expenses of the Kapyl Bet Midrash, Minsk district
Folder 65: Birth registry, Kamen , 1867 January-December
Birth registry of Jews born in the town of Kamen, Minsk district
Folder 66: Birth registry, Kamen , 1875 January-December
Birth registry of Jews born in the town of Kamen, Minsk district
Folder 67: Death registry, Minsk , circa 1877 January-December
Death registry of Jews who died and were buried in the city of Minsk
Folder 68: Account book, Bet Midrash, Minsk , 1909-1910
Account book of donations, revenues and expenses of a Bet Midrash in the Minsk district (unspecified location)
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RG12
Date
- 1825-1917
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Places
- Minsk (Belarus)
- Minskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Belarus)
Organizations
- Minsk City Police
- Minsk Department of Revenue
- Minsk Jewish Community Council
- Minsk Municipal Duma
- Minsk Province Administration
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- Decrees
- Correspondence
- Ledgers (account books)
- Lists (document genres)
- Official documents
- Official reports
- Petitions
- Registers (birth, death, marriage)
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