Guide to the Papers of Simon Dubnow (1860-1941)
1589-1938, 1961
(bulk 1700-1900)
RG 87
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Descriptive Summary | |
| Creator: | Simon Dubnow |
|---|---|
| Title: | Papers of Simon Dubnow (1860-1941) |
| Dates: | 1589-1938, 1961 |
| Dates: | bulk 1700-1900 |
| Abstract: | This collection consists of materials of Simon Dubnow, a historian, political thinker, educator, collector of historical and ethnographic documents in Russia and Poland, writer, and an activist. These materials include community registers (pinkasim) and other communal documents, historical documents relating to restrictions and privileges issued by governments to Jewish populations, blood libel trials and the Chmielnicki massacres of 1648-1649, documents from the Russian Justice Ministry and Senate, materials on pogroms in the Russian empire, and Dubnow’s family and general correspondence. The collection demonstrates Dubnow’s importance in helping to establish the idea of Jewish ethnographic history. |
| Languages: | The collection is in Yiddish and Hebrew, with some Polish, Russian and German, and a small amount of Aramaic, Latin and French. |
| Quantity: | 3.2 linear feet |
| Identification: | RG 87 |
| Repository: | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research |
Biographical Note
Shimon Meyerovich Dubnow was born on September 10, 1860 in Mstislavl, Russia (now Belarus) to a large, poor and religiously observant family. His father, Meyer Ya’akov, was a lumber merchant and his grandfather Ben-Tsion, in whose house the family lived, was an esteemed rabbinic scholar and teacher, who taught according to the methods of the Vilna Gaon. Dubnow received a traditional Jewish education in kheyder and yeshiva, however he also began to read secular literature at a young age, including novels by Avraham Mapu and poetry by Mikhah Yosef Lebensohn, later moving on to the more daring Hebrew authors of his time such as Mosheh Leib Lilienblum. He soon began to rebel against formal religion and what he considered its superstitious beliefs and obsolete practices. He later wrote an article specifically criticizing the kheyder system and calling for its abolishment. He entered the state Jewish school in Mstislavl at age 14, where he learned Russian and French and was first exposed to the ideas of the Russian positivists, such as Dmitrii Pisarev and Nikolai Chernyshevskii, French and English intellectuals, including Charles Darwin, Thomas Buckle, John Draper, John Stuart Mill, and Herbert Spencer, and the German materialists, among them Jacob Moleschott, Karl Vogt and Ludwig Buchner. He ultimately discarded his religious background and although he remained a devout secularist for the rest of his life, he came to appreciate the historical role of religion in maintaining Jewish identity.
Dubnow spent four years in Vilna, Dvinsk, and Mohilev before he used forged documents to move to St. Petersburg in 1880, where he lived illegally, since St. Petersburg was outside the Pale of Settlement. He failed to pass the entrance examinations to attend a gymnasium and was thus unable to acquire a university education. The May Laws of the 1880s eliminated the Jewish state schools, further disrupting Dubnow’s education, however he continued to educate himself independently, particularly focusing on history, philosophy and linguistics as well as the ideas of Heinrich Graetz and the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.
Dubnow wrote articles and book reviews for Russian Jewish periodicals, primarily Voskhod (Dawn) and Russkii evrei (Russian Jews), calling for extensive Jewish cultural reforms in Russia. These articles include “What Kind of Auto-Emancipation do the Jews Need?” and “What is Jewish History?” both published in 1893, as well as many other articles. Dubnow and his wife, Ida Friedlin, whom he had married in St. Petersburg, were forced to leave in 1884, at which time they returned to Mstislavl. While in Mstislavl, Dubnow came to realize that a Western model of Jewish emancipation was unlikely in Russia and an approach more rooted in the historical and social realities of Eastern Europe was necessary instead.
In 1890 the Dubnow family moved to Odessa, where Dubnow became part of an illustrious group of intellectuals committed to a nationalist conception of Jewish identity but distanced from religion. This group included Mendele Moykher-Sforim (Sholem Ya'akov Abramovitsh), Ahad Ha-Am (Asher Ginzberg), Hayim Nahman Bialik, and other eminent Jewish literary figures and Zionist intellectuals. Dubnow continued to publish studies of Jewish life and history, coming to be regarded as an authority in these areas.
While in Odessa, he shifted his position from the spiritual nationalism of Graetz and instead developed the idea of a historic Jewish will to survive, a national will that repeatedly drove the Jews to adapt creatively to their changing environments. The surge of minority nationalism in the Russian Empire and the Russian populists’ orientation toward the masses rather than towards the elite sparked Dubnow’s appreciation of the psychological strengths of the still largely traditionalist and ethnically distinct Jewish masses.
In October 1891, Dubnow published his essay “On the Study of the History of Russian Jews and the Establishment of a Russian Jewish Historical Society,” in Voskhod, in which he issued a call for the collection of Russian Jewish historical sources, one of the first to do so. In 1892 Dubnow rewrote his essay in Hebrew, and published it in the Hebrew anthology Pardes under the title “Let Us Search and Study”. The Hebrew article was reprinted as a separate brochure and distributed free of charge throughout the Pale. Between 1893 and 1895 Dubnow received hundreds of historical documents, including minute books of the local and regional communities (pinkasim), community registers, memorabilia, letters, manuscripts, legends and folklore materials, rare books, government documents, inscriptions, martyrological texts, and Hasidic literature. In addition, Dubnow’s correspondents sent him extensive bibliographic and historical notes on sources that they had uncovered.
In 1896, Dubnow published his first comprehensive history of the Jews, Vseobshchaia istoriia evreev (A General History of the Jews) based on the model of German Jewish works, particularly those of Heinrich Graetz, but structured according to Dubnow’s theory of a sequence of cultural “hegemonies” exerted by one or two key Diaspora communities in any given period. This work, rewritten and expanded several times, eventually became Dubnow’s 10-volume World History of the Jewish People, which appeared in German, Russian, Hebrew, and other languages in the 1920s and 1930s, and had a huge impact on Russian Jewish youth and the reading public. Dubnow labeled his historiographical approach “sociological,” as it emphasized how Jewish social institutions served as substitutes for a state for the otherwise stateless Jewish people. These quasi-political forms were a manifestation of Judaism’s ability to transcend the usual physical requirements of nationhood and thus, in Dubnow’s theory, exemplified the subjective nature of national identity, an identity essentially based on feelings of unity and a common historical memory. Following Heinrich Graetz, Dubnow was the first to publish a comprehensive history of the Jews that covered recent historic developments.
In 1897, the year of the formation of the world Zionist movement and the Bund, Dubnow began to publish a series of essays in Voskhod, defining his own position of Diaspora Nationalism. Dubnow later also wrote a series for Voskhod on the origins of Hasidism, published in 1888-1893. He argued that because Jews were already a diaspora nation, they did not require a physical homeland outside Europe but rather needed to modernize their communal institutions and gain constitutional recognition for them in a multinational state. He rejected Zionism on the grounds that it was an illusory solution to the pressing problems of the Jewish masses, especially in Eastern Europe. He also rejected Socialism, especially the Marxist form that was both the foundation of Bundist ideology and a growing influence among young Zionists. He felt that Marxism wrongly held as all-important the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie, whereas it was the Jewish people as a whole that was under attack, not just the workers.
By 1905, Dubnow and his family had settled in Vilna and during the early months of the 1905 Russian Revolution he became active in organizing a Jewish political response to the opportunities arising from the new civil rights that were being promised. In this effort he worked with people holding a variety of opinions on the solution to the Jewish question, including those favoring diaspora autonomy, Zionism, Socialism, and assimilation. He welcomed the creation of a parliamentary Duma as a result of the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Jewish participation in the elections, as it seemed to indicate that Russia might be finally on the way to becoming a liberal, multinational state.
In 1906 Dubnow was allowed back into St. Petersburg, where he participated actively in the development of Russian Jewish historical research in the immediate period before World War I. In 1907 Dubnow collected and published his essays on contemporary issues as Pis’ma o starom i novom evreistve (Letters on Old and New Judaism), which he had originally published serially under the same title in Voskhod between 1897 and 1903. That same year, Dubnow and Israel Efrojkin founded the Jewish People’s or Folkist party (Folkspartey) in order to espouse a combination of political liberalism and cultural autonomy for Jews as a fully legitimate national minority, including the right to vote. The Folkspartey successfully worked for the election of members of parliament and municipal councilors in interwar Lithuania and Poland and existed until the 1930s in the Ukraine, Russia, Poland, and the Baltic countries. While the Folkspartey found limited support in interwar Poland, Dubnow’s ideas profoundly affected the Bund there (one of whose leaders, Henryk Erlich, was married to Dubnow’s daughter Sophia), including Dubnow’s ideology of cultural autonomy and the importance of Yiddish.
Dubnow was active in the Society for Equal Rights of the Jewish People in Russia and in 1909 helped to found the Jewish Literature and Historical-Ethnographic Society that issued the quarterly scholarly journal Evreiskaia starina (Jewish Past), of which he was the editor. He taught at the Institute of Jewish Studies, supported by Baron David Guenzburg. Dubnow also continued publishing ever more comprehensive editions of his history of the Jews, as well as specialized works on the Russian Jewish past. He rejoiced in the overthrow of the tsarist regime in 1917 but was adamantly hostile to the Bolshevik takeover and its destruction of independent cultural institutions and personal freedom. After 1917 Dubnow became a Professor of Jewish history at Petrograd University.
Dubnow was given permission to leave Russia in 1922. He emigrated first to Kovno, Lithuania and then settled in Berlin. Although he lived among a prominent group of East European Jewish intellectuals while in Berlin, he lived in relative seclusion while working on a new edition of his World History of the Jewish People, first published in German translation in 1925-1929. During this period, he also prepared an edition of the minute book (pinkas) of the Lithuanian Jewish va‘ad (council) from 1623 to 1762, published a Hebrew version of his History of Hasidism in the Period of its Rise and Growth (Toldot ha-hasidut), 1930–1932, which he dedicated to his friend Ahad Ha-Am, and continued to write essays on Yiddish and the East European Jewish past. He was a co-founder of the YIVO Institute in Vilna in 1925 and became the chairman of its Historical Section and a loyal supporter of the institute, which was in large part the creation of his ex-students and disciples. During 1927 Dubnow initiated a search in Poland on behalf of YIVO for record books kept by kehillot and other local Jewish groups (pinkasim), ultimately collecting several hundred writings. He delivered the plenary address at YIVO’s tenth anniversary conference in Vilna in 1935, the same year that branches of YIVO’s historical division organized lectures in different cities devoted to Dubnow’s work.
When Hitler came to power in 1933, Dubnow and his wife moved to Riga, Latvia, where he continued many of his literary activities and began to publish his autobiography Kniga zhizni: Vospominaniia i razmyshleniia; Materiali dlia istorii moevo vremeni (Book of Life: Reminiscences and Reflections; Material for the History of My Times) published in 3 volsumes in 1934–1940. In his autobiography Dubnow presented reports and commentaries by his contemporaries from the centers of intellectual society and documented key events in Jewish and general history from the late 19th into the first half of the 20th century, in the process revealing the ruptures and contradictions in his own scholarly thinking and political action. In July 1941 Nazi troops occupied Riga. Dubnow was transferred to the Riga ghetto, losing his entire library. He was among thousands of Jews to be rounded up there for the Rumbula massacre. Too sick to travel to the forest, he was executed by a Gestapo officer on December 8, 1941. Several friends then buried him in the old cemetery of the Riga ghetto.
Based upon: Seltzer, Robert M. "Dubnow, Simon." YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2010, pp. 432-434.
Return to the Top of PageScope and Content Note
The core of the materials in this collection are the hundreds of historical documents Dubnow received from communities in Russia and Poland in response to his 1891 article, “On the Study of the History of Russian Jews and the Establishment of a Russian Jewish Historical Society,” and the 1892 Hebrew version, “Let Us Search and Study.” Following these articles, Dubnow continued to build his archive for most of the rest of his life. This collection also contains important additions acquired in later years in connection with Dubnow’s subsequent research projects and a large group of documents added to the collection after the 1917 revolution. At that time, Dubnow was able to make use of the former imperial archives in St. Petersburg that previously had been closed to him, and he made copies of selected documents about Russian-Jewish relations and anti-Jewish pogroms. Finally, while living in Berlin, Dubnow added a large collection of his own personal correspondence of some forty-five years.
The correspondents include Shmuel Alexandrovich, Yitzhak Antonovski, Shloyme-Meyer Bernshteyn, Martin Buber, Shim’on Goldlast, Avraham Taub, Yehudah-Leib Vaysman, Maxim Vinaver, Max Weinreich, Chaim Zhitlowsky, Shmuel Zilbershteyn, and Khayim Ziskind.
Materials include records of Jewish communities, originals and copies of community registers (pinkasim), and other historical documents from Mstislavl, Pinczow, Piotrowice, Stary Bychow, Tykocin, Zabludow, Birzai, Dubno, Lublin, Mezrich, and Novy Ushitsa. There are parts of the pinkas of the Council of Four Lands (Va'ad Arbah Aratsot) and other historical documents relating to restrictions and privileges issued by governments to Jewish populations, to blood libel trials and to Gezerot Takh-ve-Tat (the Chmielnicki massacres of 1648-1649). In addition, there are documents from the Russian Justice Ministry and Senate and materials on pogroms in the Russian empire, including pogroms in Kishinev (1903), Homel (1903) and Bialystok (1906). There are also materials on Hasidism, such as extracts of books, correspondence and documents by and about Hasidic rabbis and about Hasidism. Family papers and records include those of Rabbi Ben-Tsion Dubnow, grandfather of Simon Dubnow.
As Dubnow moved from Odessa to Vilna, St. Petersburg, Kovno, Danzig, and Berlin, he took along the entire archive. Faced with the necessity of yet another move in 1933, this time from Berlin to Riga, Latvia, he decided to donate the larger part of the archive to the YIVO Institute in Vilna. Dubnow resolved to take along with him to Riga the smaller part of his archive, which consisted of documents he needed for writing his memoirs and excerpts of the series which he named “Hasidiana,” which included documents related to the history of the Hasidic movement. It was his intention to continue writing the history of Hasidism while in Riga, a project which preoccupied him until his last years.
In the end, the records destined for the YIVO never reached Vilna. In Berlin, Dubnow left the YIVO collection in the care of his disciple and Berlin compatriot Elias Tcherikower. Tcherikower, who was a member of the YIVO Executive Committee and the chairman of YIVO’s Historical Section, had been entrusted with many other collections destined for the YIVO in Vilna, but he delayed their transfer. In 1933 Tcherikower was forced to move these collections (subsequently known as the Archive of the YIVO Historical Section, or the Elias Tcherkower Archive) to Paris in a hurry. During World War II, the archive was kept in hiding in southern France. Finally, in 1944, the Tcherikower Archive, including the Dubnow Papers, was recovered intact and shipped to the YIVO in New York. The part which Dubnow took to Riga was confiscated by the Germans at the time of Dubnow’s arrest. At least a fraction of the Riga consignment, about 3 linear feet of papers, was recovered from Germany after the war and placed in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem. However, the fate of the “Hasidiana” series remains unknown, as does the fate of Dubnow’s library, which he had bequeathed to YIVO as well.
While still in Berlin, Tcherikower drafted a preliminary listing of the papers destined for YIVO, but including also the Hasidiana that Dubnow wished to keep at the time. Later on in the 1930s, the historian Chaim Borodiansky compiled a fairly extensive inventory of the Dubnow papers that superseded the Tcherikower list. Around 1972, YIVO archivist Zosa Szajkowski added a listing of Dubnow’s correspondence. This combined inventory serves today as the original Yiddish finding aid to the collection (f. 913, 914). The English-language finding aid is an edited translation of the above.
The Dubnow collection is registered in the YIVO Archives as Record Group 87: Papers of Simon Dubnow. The collection is part of the Elias Tcherikower Archive, RG 80-89, and comprises folders 913 to 1043 of the Tcherikower Archive. The total number of folios in the collection exceeds 5,450. The collection dates from 1589-1961, with the bulk of materials dating from 1700-1900.
Return to the Top of PageArrangement
The collection is arranged in series, according to Dubnow’s own classification: Pinkasim, Civilia, Communalia, Pogrom Materials, Miscellaneous, Literaria, and Letters to Dubnow. The first three series have been formed entirely from documents collected in the 1890s, while the other series contain later materials as well.
The documents have been paginated. The Simon Dubnow Papers, RG 87, while being a separate record group, has been cataloged as part of the Tcherikower Archive, RG 80-89, along with several other collections belonging to that section in the YIVO Archives. Therefore, the folder and page numbering of this record group begins at the point where the preceding collection’s numbering ends. Thus the first folder in the RG 87 bears number 913 and the first page is number 72795.
The first two folders, number 913 and 914, contain the Yiddish finding aids compiled by Elias Tcherikower, Chaim Borodiansky and Zosa Szajkowski. The current English-language inventory is an edited translation of these lists. Every attempt has been made to standardize the translations and transliterations of individual and place names. Alternate geographical names are in parentheses.
Each document is identified by its folder number, e.g. 915, and page numbers, e.g. 73067-73100. In addition, when available, the old document numbers used by Dubnow are inserted alongside the present numbers in brackets, e.g. I.1.
- Series I: Pinkasim (communal registers), 1589-1900
- Series II: Civilia, 1638-1909
- Series III: Communalia, 1660-1912
- Series IV: Pogroms, 1881-1923
- Series V: Miscellaneous, 1760-1921
- Series VI: Literaria, 1662-1938
- Series VII: Letters to Dubnow, 1885-1931, 1961
Restrictions
Access Restrictions
Permission to use the collection must be obtained from the YIVO Archivist.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish part or parts of the collection must be obtained from the YIVO Archives. For
more information, contact:
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History,
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email:
archives@yivo.cjh.org
Related Material
The Simon Dubnow Papers are part of the Elias Tcherikower Archive, RG 80-89, with which they share a provenance. The YIVO Archives and Library also have several books by and about Dubnow, including several of the pinkasim that Dubnow collected, his autobiography and his historical works. His correspondence is also represented in several archival collections, including David Mowshowitch, Abraham Liessin, Jacob Lestchinsky, Joseph Opatoshu, and Elias Tcherikower’s personal collection.
Return to the Top of PageSeparated Material
There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.
Return to the Top of PageMicrofilm
The collection is on 8 reels of microfilm (MK 470.73 - 470.80)
Return to the Top of PageOther Finding Aids
The original finding aid containing a full version of the folder contents can be found at http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1403160
Return to the Top of PagePreferred Citation
Published citations should take the following
form:
Identification of item, date (if known); Papers of Simon Dubnow;
RG 87; folder number; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Acquisition Information
The Simon Dubnow Papers, RG 87, were received by the YIVO Archives in New York in 1944 as part of the Elias Tcherikower Archive.
Return to the Top of PageProcessing information
Dubnow organized the papers himself before giving the collection to Elias Tcherikower, who made a preliminary listing of the papers intended for YIVO. Chaim Borodiansky later compiled an inventory that superseded the Tcherikower list, also in the 1930s. In 1972, YIVO archivist Zosa Szajkowski added a listing of Dubnow’s correspondence. The English finding aid was created by Marek Web and Chava Lapin in 2008. Additional processing completed in November 2011.
Return to the Top of PageAccess Points
Individuals:
- Dubnow, Ben-Tsion
- Dubnow, Simon, 1860-1941
- Honta, Ivan, d. 1768
- Khmelʹnyt︠s︡ʹkyĭ, Bohdan, ca. 1594-1657
- Vinaver, M. (Maksim), 1862-1926
- Weinreich, Max, 1894-1969
- Zhitlowsky, Chaim, 1865-1943
- Ziskind, Khayim
Organizations:
- Council of Four Lands
- YIVO Archives
Subjects:
- Antisemitism
- Blood accusation
- Fraternal organizations
- Gezerot tah ve-tat, 1648-1649
- Jews -- Europe, Eastern
- Jews -- Persecutions
- Lublin Jewish Community Council (Poland)
- Pogroms
- Rabbis
- Trials -- Soviet Union
Places:
- Belarus
- Lithuania
- Poland
- Russia
- Soviet Union
- Ukraine
Document Types:
- Administrative reports
- Correspondence
- Financial records
- Manuscripts
- Minutes
- Vital statistics records
Container List
Series I: Pinkasim (communal registers), 1589-1900. | |||
| 19 folders | |||
Scope and Content:The communal registers were Dubnow’s most prized possessions. In his essay “On the Study of History,” Dubnow singles out pinkasim as being the most important documents for the history of Jewish communal relations. Even after many years of diligent search he could gather no more than seven originals and about a dozen copies. These include the pinkasim of the communities of Mstislavl (1702-1823), Sloboda (Novy Mstislavl, 1760-1795), Piotrowice (1726-1809), Pinczow (1632-1740), Stary Bychow (1686-1869), Kedainiai (1806-1819), Tykocin (1589-1816), Birzai (1784-1836), Dubno (1670-1671), Zabludow (1650-1827), Lublin (1685-1695, 1777-1785), parts of the Pinkas medinat Lita (Pinkas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania), and the six extant pages of the Pinkas Va’ad Arba Aratsot (Pinkas of the Council of the Four Lands). In addition, there are excerpts from many pinkasim that for various reasons were not copied in full. The series Hasidiana is not included here. According to Tcherikower’s list, forty-two documents of the total forty-five remained in Dubnow’s possession. Readers of Dubnow’s History of Hasidism will find many of those documents incorporated in his text. | |||
| Folder | Page | Title | Date |
| 913 | 72725-72927 | Collection inventories | 1930 |
drafts by E. Tcherikover, Borodiansky and Rapaport, Yiddish | |||
| 914 | 72928-73066 | Collection inventories | undated |
copies | |||
| 915 | 73067-73100 | Novy Mstislavl (Sloboda) [I.1] | 1760-1795 |
communal register from the years 5520 to 5555. Hebrew, quarto, 34 pp. (the edges of the pages are damaged) | |||
| 916 | 73101-73151 | Novy Mstislavl (Sloboda) | undated |
photocopy of folder 915 | |||
| 917 | 73152-73213 | Pitrovits (Piotrowice) [I.2] | 1726-1809 |
communal register from the year 5486 to 5569, Hebrew, quarto, 61 pp. | |||
| 918 | 73214-73258 | Bikhov (Bychow) [I.3] | 1686-1869 |
register of the hevra kadisha (burial society), copied from the original pinkas in 1869 by Yirmiyah, son of Avraham Yermanakh, Hebrew, copy, 45 pp., bound | |||
| 919 | 73259-73316 | Tiktin (Tykocin) [I.4] | 1589-1816 |
communal register of Tiktin and its environs, partial copy | |||
| 920 | 73317-73338 | Zabludow [I.5] | 1650-1827 |
communal register, copy, 20 pp., Hebrew and Yiddish | |||
| 921 | 73339-73386 | Birzai (Birzh, Birze) [I.6, I.7] | 1784-1836 |
two registers of the hevra kadisha, partial copy, including by-laws of the burial society and some records of the years 5544-5596 | |||
| 922 | 73387-73395 | Pinczow [I.8] | 1632-1740 |
a few pages of sample notations from the pinkas, 8 pp., Hebrew, edges damaged | |||
| 923 | 73396-73444 | Lublin [I.9] | 1685-1695, 1777-1785 |
communal register, partial copy | |||
| 924 | 73445 | Pinkas medinat Lita | 1895 |
excerpts, supplement to a letter from Sh. Beilin of Luck to Dubnow, September 1 | |||
| 925 | 73446-73526 | Pinkas medinat Lita [I.10] | 1894 |
partial copy, a collection of statutes of the Councils of Lithuania, 1664-1761, copied in the Strashun Library in Vilna in 1894 | |||
| 926 | 73527-73554 | Pinkas medinat Lita | 1883-1895 |
supplements to folder 925, marked A to D | |||
| 927 | 73555-73632 | Horodno [I.11] | 1882 |
communal register, partial copy | |||
| 928 | 73633-73715 | Pinkas medinat Lita [I.12] | 1886 |
register of the Council of Lithuania, partial copy by A.L. Faynshtayn in 1886 from the Brest copy of the Pinkas medinat Lita, Hebrew, 79 pp. | |||
| 929 | 73716-73721 | Dubno [I.13] | 1670-1671 |
excerpts from the pinkas, Council of the Four Lands | |||
| 930 | 73722-73725 | Libau, Courland [I.14] | 1850 |
pinkas of the burial society, 4 pp. | |||
| 930 | 73726 A and B | Kedainiai (Keydan) [I.16b] | 1702 |
wax seal from the pinkas of “Mitsvah Activists” Society, 5462 | |||
| 931 | 73726 | Mstislavl [I.15a] | 1702-1823 |
pinkas of Mstislavl and environs, a note | |||
| 932 | 73727 | Kedainiai (Keydan) | |
pinkas, a note | |||
| 933 | 73727-73733 | Liozni (Liozna) [I.18] | 1750-1820 |
pinkas of the hevra kadisha, partial copy, deals with Hasidim | |||
Series II: Civilia, 1638-1909. | |||
| 11 folders | |||
Scope and Content:This series consists of documents about the legal status and the political situation of Jews in Russia and Poland, mainly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Included are privileges and deeds granted to Jews by various rulers in Eastern Europe, official documents regarding the policies of tsars Nicholas I and Alexander II, documents concerning Max Lilienthal’s efforts to establish state schools for Jewish children in Russia, and materials about the Karaites. This series includes several samples of martyrological literature, such as prayers and lamentations in memory of the victims of pogroms in the times of Bogdan Chmielnicki (1648) and Ivan Gonta (1768). | |||
| Folder | Page | Title | Date |
| 934 | 7734-73736 | Listing of documents in the Civilia section | undated |
Reel 74 | |||
| 935 | 73737 | Pinkas of the Council of Four Lands of the Kingdom of Poland: Addendum [II.1] | 1892 |
excerpt from the book “Ma'amar kadishin”, 1764, about the laws regarding one who flees from his creditors, copied by Shim'on Goldlast, Lomza, 1 pp. | |||
| 935 | 73738-73739 | Rabbi Meyer Hirshl Margolius [II.2] | 1892 |
royal decree by King Stanislaw August, appointing the rabbi of Ostroh, R’ Meyer Hirshl Margolius, the rabbi of Bratslav and the Ukraine, January 1775, Polish | |||
| 935 | 73740 | Contract between the kehilla of Ostroh and R' Meyer Margolius [II.3] | 1777-1778 |
contract appointing him rabbi and chief of beit din of Ostroh and its environs, 1777 (renewed in 1778), 1 pp., copied by Menahem Nahum Litinsky | |||
| 935 | 73741-73742 | Contract between the kehilla of Ostroh and R' Meyer Margolius [II.4] | undated |
copy of the above | |||
| 935 | 73743-73744 | Edict of Herzog Ferdinand about the banishment of Jews from Courland [II.5] | 1839 |
banishment as of 23 March, 1714 | |||
| 935 | 73745-73746 | Decree by Herzog Karl [II.6] | 1760 |
decree of September 20, 1760 about the expulsion of Jews from Courland | |||
| 935 | 73747-73749 | Letters from the mortgage holders in the Podlasie Province [II.7] | 1825 |
to the council members of the Committee for Jewish Affairs in Warsaw, 9 Heshvan 5585, about their difficult condition | |||
| 935 | 73750-73751 | Letter from Zalman Posner to the community elders (parnasim) of Suwalki [II.8] | 1843 |
elders are Yehezkel Lipsky, Avraham Rosenthal, Moshe Epshteyn, from Warsaw | |||
| 935 | 73752-73753 | Excerpts from Responsa, Ateret-Tzvi [II.9] | 1720-1721 |
pp. 183, notation #25, regarding Rabbi Tzvi son of Azriel of Vilna and his trial, 5480-5481, 4 pp. | |||
| 936 | 73754-73757 | Jews and the jurisdiction of the Polish courts [II.10] | 1792 |
Vilna, original, dated 5 May, 4 pp., Polish | |||
| 936 | 73758-73795 | Committee for the History of Odessa Jews [II.11] | 1841-1846 |
five official documents, Russian, 35 pp. | |||
| 936 | 73758-73765 | Committee for the History of Odessa Jews [II.11] | 1841 |
a) letter from Count Kiselev to the governor-general of Novorussia with an addendum about the need for reforming Jewish life in Russia, 13 February, Russian, 8 pp., copy | |||
| 936 | 73766-73773 | Committee for the History of Odessa Jews [II.11] | 1841 |
b) memorandum from the Chief of the Interior Ministry, F. Stroganov, to the governor-general of Novorussia and Bessarabia about the proposed reforms regarding the Jews, 19 February, Russian, copy, 8 pp. | |||
| 936 | 73774-73781 | Committee for the History of Odessa Jews [II.11] | 1844 |
c) decree by the emperor Nicholas I, regarding ways to educate Jews in Russia, copy, 5 pp. | |||
| 936 | 73782-73793 | Committee for the History of Odessa Jews [II.11] | undated |
d) regulations about Jewish schools and teachers under supervision of the Ministry for Public Education, copy, 12 pp. | |||
| 936 | 73794-73795 | Committee for the History of Odessa Jews [II.11] | 1844 |
e) letter from Minister Perovsky to Count (Baron) Vorontsoff, about the laws pertaining to Jewish residence in cities, 3 August, Russian, copy, 2 pp. | |||
| 937 | 73796-73797 | Adolf Lasky [II.12] | 1835 |
a) certificate for Adolf Lasky about his completing the 3rd grade at the Odessa Jewish school, 10 September, original, Russian, 2 pp., seal | |||
| 937 | 73798-73799 | Adolf Lasky [II.12] | 1836 |
b) graduation certificate for Adolf Lasky from the Odessa Jewish school, 20 August, Russian, 2 pp. | |||
| 937 | 73800-73801 | Adolf Lasky [II.12] | 1897 |
c) letter from Adolf Lasky to Dubnow, dated January 10, about the above two certificates, Russian, 2 pp. | |||
| 937 | 73802-73803 | 1000-year celebration of Russian empire [II.13] | 1862-1863 |
a) letter from Ya'akov Barit (Kovner) to Yehoshua Heshel Levin in Vilna, Monday, 12 Tishrei 5623, about the Jewish delegation from Vilna to St. Petersburg for the 1000-year celebration of Russian empire in September 1862 | |||
| 937 | 73804 | 1000-year celebration of Russian empire [II.13] | 1862 |
b) address from Vilna kehilla to Tsar Alexander II, in honor of the 1000-year celebration of Russia, 8 September, Hebrew translation from Russian by Ya'akov Barit (Kovner) | |||
| 937 | 73805-73806 | Karaites [II.14] | 1887 |
a) About Karaites, by Shimen Stanislavsky, Yekaterinoslav, Russian, 2 pp. | |||
| 937 | 73807 | Karaites [II.14] | 1888 |
b) S. Y. Stanislavsky’s article about the Karaites, “Chronicle of the Karaite Literature”, Hamelitz, no. 243, November 28 | |||
| 937 | 73808-73809 | Karaites [II.14] | 1896 |
c) copy from Polin-Chronicles regarding the influx of Karaites into Lithuania, Volhynia and Galicia according to a Karaite manuscript of 5555 (1795) | |||
| 937 | 73810 | Karaites [II.14] | 1896 |
d) mailing envelope from Altansky from Bakhtshisaray, addressed to the head of the Karaite Synagogue in Odessa, Yehudah Berav Yitzhak Savaliskan, 11 January, Russian | |||
| 937 | 73811-73812 | Karaites [II.14] | 1892 |
e) article by M. N. Litinsky of Mohilev-Podolsk, about the Karaites with notes by Elishah Lenovits, July 10 | |||
| 938 | 73813-73828 | Khmelnitsky pogroms of 1648-1649 (Takh-ve-Tat) [II.15] | 1785 |
a) Shabtai Katz, introduction to Penitential Prayers and Lamentations for the Evil Events in Ukraine, Volhynia and Podolya, and in Lithuania in the years 1648-1649, copy from a selihot, printed in Amsterdam by Yohanan Levi Rofe, Hebrew, 3 pp. | |||
| 938 | 73813-73828 | Khmelnitsky pogroms of 1648-1649 (Takh-ve-Tat) [II.15] | 1892 |
b) same as above, copied and with comment by Shalom Aleksander Rivkin of Homel, Mohilev Province, 23 December, Hebrew, 8 pp. | |||
| 938 | 73813-73828 | Khmelnitsky pogroms of 1648-1649 (Takh-ve-Tat) [II.15] | 1658 |
c) selihot, composed by R' Yehiel Mikhel of Nemirov, following the events of Takh-ve-Tat (1648-1649) | |||
| 938 | 73813-73828 | Khmelnitsky pogroms of 1648-1649 (Takh-ve-Tat) [II.15] | 1794 |
d) selihot, copied by Eliezer Yitzhak Feygin, Bialystok, from Seder ha-Selihot (Book of Mourning/Penitential prayers), printed in Poritsk, Hebrew, 2 pp., folio | |||
| 938 | 73813-73828 | Khmelnitsky pogroms of 1648-1649 (Takh-ve-Tat) [II.15] | 1708 |
e) selihot, written in Kol Ya'akov by Ya'akov Kopl, son of Tzvi Margolies, Amsterdam, 5468 | |||
| 938 | 73813-73828 | Khmelnitsky pogroms of 1648-1649 (Takh-ve-Tat) [II.15] | 1893 |
f) R’ Ya'akov Emden’s reports about the horrors of Takh-ve-Tat, derived from his autobiographic text, Megillat sefer, by Hayim Eliezer Dubnikov of Tulczyn, 11 June | |||
| 939 | 73829-73833 | Penitentials and lamentations [II.16] | 1638 |
selihot ve-kinot about the martyrs Moshe and Yehudah, murdered in Warsaw in 5396 | |||
| 939 | 73834-73839 | Folksongs about persecutions [II.17] | 1768 |
Gezerot Takh-ve-Tat and Gezerot Gonte (Gonta), 5528 | |||
| 939 | 73834-73839 | Folksongs about persecutions [II.17] | undated |
a) folksongs about the persecutions in Podolia | |||
| 939 | 73834-73839 | Folksongs about persecutions [II.17] | 1893 |
b) From the History of Jews in Podolya, a rare document regarding Gezerot Gonte, by Menahem Nahum Litinsky, Mohilev Podolsk, 22 June 1890 | |||
| 939 | 73840-73843 | Catastrophes [II.18] | 1890-1893 |
a) Sha'ar ha-melekh by R’ Mordekhai, chief of the beit din of Vilkotch, printed Horodno 1790 | |||
| 939 | 73840-73843 | Catastrophes [II.18] | 1791 |
b) blood libel in the City of Turzysk, Volhynia and Kovel, 5551 | |||
| 940 | 73844-73846 | Letters from Yitzhak Nisnboym [II.19] | 1894 |
a) Rosh Hodesh Tevet 5655 | |||
| 940 | 73844-73846 | Letters from Yitzhak Nisnboym [II.19] | 1894 |
b) 10 Av 5655, with excerpt from various books: | |||
| 940 | 73847-73849 | Persecutions of Jews [II.20] | 1895 |
excerpts from various books, such as Rosh Yosef, Even ha-shoham, Kikayon de-Yonah | |||
| 940 | 73850-73853 | El mole rakhamim [II.21] | 1895 |
for the victims of Takh-ve-Tat (1648-1649); and of the Gonta rebellion (1743) in Pavlitsh, Tvarov, Mohilev, Nesvizh, and Chernigov | |||
| 940 | 73854-73855 | Sales, merchandising matters, taxes, rentals, and mortgages [II.22] | 1896 |
statutes from R’ Feibush of Krakow, the Ba'al ha-Taz of Lvov and others | |||
| 940 | 73856 | Note from the Vilna Police [II.23] | 1908 |
refers to prohibition of Jews to live on the most prominent streets of Vilna, 10 September, 1823, Yiddish and Polish, 1 pp. | |||
| 940 | 73857-73859 | Writ of Orders from the governor of Grodno [II.24] | 1852 |
Ukase from the Governor about Hair of Females | |||
| 941 | 73860-73861 | Address to Nicholas II, from the Society of True Russian Men in Odessa [II.25] | 1909 |
on the occasion of Nicholas II's passage through Odessa in September, Russian, 2 pp. | |||
| 942 | 73862-73870 | Dr. Lilienthal [II.26] | 1842-1844 |
thank you letter for Dr. Lilienthal in regard to his mission on behalf of the Ministry of Public Education, signed by Minister Perovsky, St. Petersburg, 29 July 1842 | |||
| 943 | 73871-73874 | Committee for Jewish Affairs in Warsaw [II.27] | 1846 |
documents regarding an imperial order of February 18, regarding restrictions on Jewish residence | |||
| 943 | 73875-73880 | Committee for Jewish Affairs in Warsaw [II.28] | 1825 |
request of the renters of Podlasie Province, dated 8 Heshvan, 5586, about their stressful situation | |||
| 943 | (Missing) Letter about farm laborers [II.29] | 1844 | |
Zalmen Posner to the councilors /parnasim of Suwalki, copy, 1844 (1843?), Hebrew, 2 pp. | |||
| 944 | 73881 | Circular about Zionist enclaves [II.30] | 1903 |
circular by Plehve and Lopukhin about supervision and steps to be taken to obstruct Jewish national movements, 24 June | |||
| 944 | 73882 | Call from the Odessa Union of the Russian People to the Jews [II.31] | 1909 |
concerning the elections to national Duma of 28 September | |||
Series III: Communalia, 1660-1912. | |||
| 13 folders | |||
Scope and Content:This series is centered on local history, documenting approximately thirty-five communities in Ukraine, Belarus and Poland. Materials are organized by community name. This diverse series contains excerpts from pinkasim, materials about blood libels and other proceedings against Jews, including those in Mezrich, the Velizh trial, 1823-1835 and in Novy Ushitsa, 1838-1840, martyrological texts, and tombstone inscriptions. | |||
| Folder | Page | Title | Date |
| 945 | 73883-73885 | Statutes from the pinkas of the Hevra Kadisha Baranovka [III.1] | 1780 |
excerpts from old books about victims of persecutions, Hebrew, 6 pp. | |||
| 945 | 73886-73887 | Ukase about punishing the convert Grudinsky for libeling Jews [III.2] | 1830 |
in connection with the Velizh court case, 10 July, Russian, 3 pp. | |||
| 945 | 73888-73889 | Privilege given to the Jews of Bychow [III.3] | 1880 |
privilege given by the Lithuanian vice-chancellor, Michal Sapieha, 17 February 1758 | |||
| 945 | 73890 | Statutes of the Hevra Kadisha Gomlei Hasadim of Belotserkov [III.4] | 1772 |
for the year 5532, copy, Hebrew, 1 pp. | |||
| 945 | 73891-73897 | Documents about Bialystok [III.5] | undated |
a) list of inscriptions on gravestones from the Bialystok cemetery for the years 5570-5620 (1810-1860), with remarks by Dr. Yosef Chazanovitsh, Bialystok, Hebrew, 5 pp. | |||
| 945 | 73891-73897 | Documents about Bialystok [III.5] | 1789 |
b) rabbinic certification for Shlomo Zalman Tiktin in Bialystok, dated 5549, copy, Hebrew, 4 pp. | |||
| 945 | 73898-73925 | Documents regarding the Velizh trial, 1823-1835 [III.6] | 1893 |
a) excerpts from the Senate proceeding compiled by Dubnow in the form of a notebook titled Zapiski Velizhe, June, 82 pp., Russian | |||
| 945 | 73898-73925 | Documents regarding the Velizh trial, 1823-1835 [III.6] | 1893 |
b) three letters to Dubnow about the Velizh blood libel, by L. N. Etinger, Velizh, 19 April, 26 May and 29 June, Russian, 16 pp. | |||
| 945 | 73898-73925 | Documents regarding the Velizh trial, 1823-1835 [III.6] | 1893-1894 |
c) two letters to Dubnow about the Velizh Trial from Hayim Rivkin, Velizh, 21 November and 9 January, Russian, 16 pp. | |||
| 945 | 73898-73925 | Documents regarding the Velizh trial, 1823-1835 [III.6] | undated |
d) Dubnow’s remarks and bibliographic notes appended to the Velizh proceedings, Russian, 10 pp. | |||
| 946 | 73926-73941 | History of Jews in Vizhun and Utian (Russia) [III.7] | 1894 |
a) Chronicles of the City in Vizhun, a letter to Dubnow from Nahum-Ber Garb, dated 4 February, Vilkomir, with excerpts from the statutes of the Hevra Tehillim in Utian (Kovno Gubernia), Hebrew, 8 pp. | |||
| 946 | 73926-73941 | History of Jews in Vizhun and Utian (Russia) [III.7] | 1893-1894 |
b) materials about the martyr, R’ Menahem Man of Vizhun | |||
| 946 | 73926-73941 | History of Jews in Vizhun and Utian (Russia) [III.7] | 1912 |
c) letter from Azriel Yafat and Ben-Tzion Tsun Yehaya and materials about R’ Menakhem Man, 7 February, Russian and Hebrew, 10 pp. | |||
| 947 | 73942 | Gravestone from the old cemetery in Homel [III.8] | 1898 |
from the year 5512 (1752), in the courtyard of Babushkins' Shul, copy by Dubnow, 24 August 1898, 1 pp., Hebrew | |||
| 947 | 73943-73946 | Excerpts from the Dubno pinkasim [III.9] | 1892-1893 |
excerpts from 17th and 18th century, printed in Hamelitz, 1892, # 124, 233, 241, and 1893, #63 by Khayim Margolis | |||
| 947 | 73947 | Inscriptions from Kishinev cemetery [III.10] | 1894 |
inscriptions from 1712-1794, by Ze'ev Volf Vaynshteyn, in a letter to Dubnow, 18 October | |||
| 947 | 73948 | Privilege for Jews in Kritchev, Mohilev Province [III.12] | 1893 |
privilege issued by the King Jan Kazimierz, 1664 | |||
| 947 | 73949-73954 | Letters about the Jewish Community of Liozna [III.13] | 1898-1899 |
three letters from Dr. Avraham Bramson, of Liozna, Mohilev Province, 8 December, 22 January and 7 June, Russian, 5 pp. | |||
| 947 | 73955-73956 | Letter with an inscription on the gravestone of the martyr Ze'ev Volf [III.14] | 1892 |
killed in 1762 in Lutsk | |||
| 948 | 73957-73969 | History of the Jews in Lublin [III.15] | 1894 |
a) listing of 26 gravestones, in the Lublin cemetery, sent to Dubnow by R' Yosef Levinshteyn, rabbi of Serock, Adar 5654, Hebrew, 4 pp. | |||
| 948 | 73957-73969 | History of the Jews in Lublin [III.15] | 1895 |
b) massacre of 5417 (1657) from old responsa | |||
| 948 | 73957-73969 | History of the Jews in Lublin [III.15] | 1892 |
c) letter from Tuva Habavli, Kovno, 16 December, with passages from responsa Yosef da'at (Mounting Knowledge), about Lublin, Hebrew, 3 pp. | |||
| 948 | 73957-73969 | History of the Jews in Lublin [III.15] | 1895 |
d) letter and card from Shlomo Nisnboym of Lublin, 12 February and 3 March | |||
| 949 | 73970-73989 | Mezrich (Miedzyrzec) [III.16] | undated |
a) income and expense ledger for the Kehilla of Mezrich, covering the years 5492-5563 (1732-1803), copied and sent to Dubnow by Ya'akov Shapiro of Mezrich, 8 pp., Hebrew | |||
| 949 | 73970-73989 | Mezrich (Miedzyrzec) [III.16] | 1893 |
b) letter from Ya'akov Shapiro about the apostate Meyer (Paul) the Informer, 15 Sivan 5653, Hebrew, 5 pp. | |||
| 949 | 73970-73989 | Mezrich (Miedzyrzec) [III.16] | undated |
c) the story of the City of Vahun, near Mezrich, a folk-tale recorded and annotated by Ya'akov Shapiro in Mezrich, Hebrew, 4 pp. | |||
| 950 | 73990-73991 | Chronicles of Israel in the City of Mohilev Podolsk [III.17] | undated |
inscriptions from old gravestones in the Mohilev cemetery from the years 5483-5552 (1723-1792), with annotations added by Menahem Litinsky | |||
| 950 | 73992-74005 | Mohilev-on the-Dnieper [III.18] | undated |
a) excerpts from Mohilev archival records | |||
| 950 | 73992-74005 | Mohilev-on the-Dnieper [III.18] | 1884 |
b) excerpts from the description of the Mohilev Province, pp. 716 in a book, Russian, 4 pp. | |||
| 950 | 73992-74005 | Mohilev-on the-Dnieper [III.18] | undated |
c) Azkarah for the martyrs of the year 1655, Mohilev Province, copied from a manuscript at the Shupol Synagogue by Shim'on Volkov, Hebrew, 2 pp. | |||
| 951 | 74006-74015 | Mstislavl Kehilla [III.19] | 1818, undated |
excerpts from the pinkas of the Funeral Society for the year 5568 (1808), excerpts made by S. Dubnow | |||
| 951 | 74006-74015 | Mstislavl Kehilla [III.19] | undated |
b) A Story of Miracles that Occurred in the year 5604 (1844) in Mstislavl, Hebrew, 5 pp. | |||
| 951 | 74006-74015 | Mstislavl Kehilla [III.19] | undated |
c) a few chapters about the Mstislavl miracle of 1844 (The Purim of Mstislavl) sent by Yitzhak Malkin of Smolensk, with remarks by Dubnow, Hebrew, 10 pp. | |||
| 952 | 74016-74019 | Nesvizh-Snov [III.20] | undated |
a) three halakhic decisions in the case between the kehillot of Nezvizh and Snov, copied by David Slutski of Snov, Hebrew, 4 pp., with remarks by Dubnow | |||
| 952 | 74016-74019 | Nesvizh-Snov [III.20] | 1892 |
b) claims of the kehilla of Brisk (Brest Litovsk) in the dispute between Nesvizh and Snov, dated (5547) 1787, as told by David Slutski in a letter dated, 12 December, 1892 | |||
| 952 | 74020-74023 | Nowogrodek/Novogrudok (Novaredok) [III.21] | undated |
a) excerpts of statements by Boni Originis, 25 August 1739, about residential permits for Jews in Nowogrodek, Polish and Russian, copy of a copy | |||
| 952 | 74020-74023 | Nowogrodek/Novogrudok (Novaredok) [III.21] | 1894 |
b) excerpt of pinkas mishnayot about the martyr R' Meyer, killed in Nowogrodek | |||
| 952 | 74020-74023 | Nowogrodek/Novogrudok (Novaredok) [III.21] | 1893 |
c) clippings from Hamelitz, #116, about the martyrs of Velma, Sha’ul Aharon Rubinshteyn | |||
| 953 | 74024-74041 | Ostroh, Zaslav, Stepan and Olik, Volhynia Province [III.22] | 1792 |
a) Megillat Tamuz, 5552, about the miracle in the war between Russia and Poland in Ostroh, 4 pp., Yiddish, calligraphy, 2 copies, Russian | |||
| 953 | 74024-74041 | Ostroh, Zaslav, Stepan and Olik, Volhynia Province [III.22] | 1892 |
b) elegies for the martyrs of Zaslav, copy of an old manuscript, Hebrew, with an appendix by the copyist Mendelberg, 1 pp. | |||
| 953 | 74024-74041 | Ostroh, Zaslav, Stepan and Olik, Volhynia Province [III.22] | 1795 |
c) two letters from Mendelberg of Ostroh, dated Wednesday, week of zot ha-brakhah, about Zaslav, Stepan and Olik, in Hebrew, 3 pp. | |||
| 953 | 74024-74041 | Ostroh, Zaslav, Stepan and Olik, Volhynia Province [III.22] | undated |
d) Megillat Stepan (The Scroll of Stepan) about the libel cast on R’ Yoel of Lutsk, Hebrew, 7 pp. | |||
| 953 | 74024-74041 | Ostroh, Zaslav, Stepan and Olik, Volhynia Province [III.22] | 1740 |
e) inscription on the gravestone of R' Shmuel Eliezer son of Yehudah (Maharsha) in Ostroh, 7 Heshvan, 5501, and his family, Hebrew, 2 pp. | |||
| 954 | 74042-74043 | Ostropol [III.23] | 1895 |
stories about the burial of R’ Shimshon of Ostropol, in a letter by Moshe Spiglbord, 11 June, from Ostropol | |||
| 954 | 74044-74060 | Pinczow [III.24] | 1894 |
a) Siddur Pintshev, copies of an old prayer book, manuscript from the Pintshev Beit Midrash, dated 5375 (1614), copies made by S. Dubnow, July 1894, 6 pp. Hebrew | |||
| 954 | 74044-74060 | Pinczow [III.24] | 1894 |
b) letter from the rabbi of Herzog, R’ Yosef Bera, about the Pintshev Siddur, Hebrew, 2 pp. | |||
| 954 | 74044-74060 | Pinczow [III.24] | 1894 |
c) two El mole rakhamims for the martyrs of Pintshev, copies by Yitzhak Meyer Levinshteyn of Koszyce | |||
| 954 | 74044-74060 | Plock [also III.24] | undated |
a) two documents from years 1754 and 1792, about the persecutions and murder of the Plock Jewish elders by the town administration, Polish translations of Hebrew texts excerpted from the synagogue records, 3 pp. | |||
| 954 | 74044-74060 | Plock [III.24] | 1894 |
b) letter from Israel Nozyca, 14 February, about the persecutions and murder of the Plock Jewish elders by the town administration | |||
| 955 | 74061-74066 | Pohrebishtche [III.25] | 1894 |
miscellaneous stories about the town in a letter by Fishl Guttman to Dubnow, Hebrew, 6 pp. | |||
| 955 | 74067-74083 | Poznan (Poyzn, Posen) [III.26] | 1865 |
a) chronicles of the City of Poznan about the persecutions in 1704, 1717, 1736, drawn from Kuntres (notebook, logbook) of Poznan, referred to by Perles in the History of the Jews of Posen (German), Hebrew, 2 pp. | |||
| 955 | 74067-74083 | Poznan (Poyzn, Posen) [III.26] | 1891 |
b) elegy for the Fire of Posen, from the book P'nei Yitzhak by R’Yitzhak Khayes, Krakow, 5351, 6 pp., Hebrew | |||
| 955 | 74067-74083 | Poznan (Poyzn, Posen) [III.26] | 1796 |
c) penitential recitations for the 5th of Av, the persecutions of 5476 (1706-1707) taken from Kuntres, Dyhernfurth, 5556, 8 pp, Hebrew | |||
| 955 | 74067-74083 | Poznan (Poyzn, Posen) [III.26] | 1733 |
d) Even ha-shoham the Onyx Stone, excerpts from the book of responsa, by Eliyakum Getz, Dyhernfurth 5493, regarding the persecutions of 5460-5478 (1700-1718), prepared by Ya'akov Shapiro of Mezrich, Hebrew, 4 pp. | |||
| 955 | 74067-74083 | Poznan (Poyzn, Posen) [III.26] | 1803 |
e) excerpts from "Ma'aseh ha-shem" (God’s Deeds), Roedelheim 5513 (1753) about the false accusation in Posen, Shevat 5563, 6 pp., Hebrew | |||
| 955 | 74084-74087 | Pruzany [III.28] | 1895 |
excerpt from the community pinkas of Pruzany, 5568-5574 (1808-1814) and other data in a letter from Moshe-Nissan Yanovski, dated first day of hol ha-moed Sukkot, 5656, Hebrew, 4 pp. | |||
| 955 | 74088-74090 | Rasin (Raseiniai) [III.29] | 1897 |
story about Pan Stolnik and the repressions of Jews in Rasin and other data, in a letter from the Vilna Rabbi, R’ Finfer, dated 15 Av, 5657, 3 pp., Hebrew | |||
| 956 | 74091-74120 | Ruzhana [III.30] | 1660 |
a) selihot (penitential/mourning) prayers for the martyrs of Ruzhana, 5420, copies by Dr. Yosef Chazanovitsh from a general ledger in Ruzhana | |||
| 956 | 74091-74120 | Ruzhana [III.30] | 1660 |
b) Da'at kedoshim al harugei Ruzhana 5420 (1660) ve-yihusam, recognizing the victims of Ruzhana killed in 1640 and their lineage, Hebrew, 39 pp., pp. 19, 20 missing | |||
| 956 | 74091-74120 | Ruzhana [III.30] | undated |
c) selihot for the martyrs of Ruzhana, written by R’ Shim'on Khozok, transcribed from a manuscript owned by R’ Eliyahu Yafe in Ruzhana, with remarks by S. Dubnow, Hebrew, 4 pp. | |||
| 956 | 74091-74120 | Ruzhana [III.30] | 1893 |
d) copy of the 5635 (1875) monument for the Ruzhana martyrs of the blood libel of 5420 (1600), R’ Yisrael and R’ Tuviah, plus some notes about the blood libel, in a letter to Dubnow dated 12 Tishrei 5653, sent by Aharon Moshe Mazursky, Ruzhana, with remarks appended by Dubnow, Hebrew and Russian, 4 pp. | |||
| 957 | 74121-74122 | Slonim [III.31] | 1764 |
copy of the pinkas of the Bikur Holim Society, transcribed by R’ Yitzhak Shamash in Slonim, Hebrew, 2 pp., also about the pogrom of 5524 | |||
| 957 | 74123 | Slutsk [III.32] | 1894 |
copy of the pinkas of the hevra kadisha of Slutsk, starting in 5438 (1678), Hebrew, 1 pp. | |||
| 957 | 74124-74135 | Ushitsa Trial [III.33] | 1838-1840 |
regarding attacks by local Jews against Jewish informers | |||
| 957 | 74124-74135 | Ushitsa Trial [III.33] | undated |
b) report of the trial in a letter account of the Litnivetser Mayse, written on stationery of Sh. A. Hornshteyn, Odessa, Russian, 7 pp. | |||
| 957 | 74136-74139 | Lublin [III.34] | 1902 |
a) lists of Prayers about the Cruelty, translated from a manuscript from Lublin including about the history of Jews in Lublin | |||
| 957 | 74136-74139 | Lublin [III.34] | 1902 |
b) letters from the kehilla of Lublin dated 1709 (5469), also from 2 Av, 5469 to R’ Aharon Avraham Ber, shtadlan, (intercessor and advocate for the Jewish community) in Oyrikh, regarding help, especially in this difficult time | |||
Series IV: Pogroms, 1881-1923. | |||
| 19 folders | |||
Scope and Content:The materials in this series were gathered mostly during Dubnow’s last years in Russia, between 1919 and 1922. Dubnow was then involved in editing the documentary volumes on anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia and he spent considerable time poring over the newly available records of the former imperial archives. In this series, there are reports by government officials and other information about pogroms in the modern era, including those of 1881, 1903, 1905, and 1906. In addition, there are memoranda on the situation of Jews in Russia that were submitted to the Pahlen Commission in 1884, including one written by Dubnow. | |||
| Folder | Page | Title | Date |
| 958 | 74140-74141 | List of files | undated |
(incomplete) | |||
| 959 | 74142-74217 | Reports about pogroms [IV.1] | 1881 |
a) information from police precincts, from German newspapers and from miscellaneous reports, April-May 1881, largely in Russian, 68 pp. | |||
| 959 | 74142-74217 | Reports about pogroms [IV.1] | 1881-1882 |
b) reports about pogrom agitation and orders, related to the trial of the pogrom perpetrators, May 1881- January 1882, Russian, printed copy, 17 pp. | |||
| 960 | 74218-74319 | Report by Count Kutaisov [IV.2] | undated |
a) about the pogroms of June 1881 in Bessarabia, Poltava Province, and Kiev Province | |||
| 960 | 74218-74319 | Report by Count Kutaisov [IV.2] | 1923 |
b) addendum to Kutaisov report, 3 pp., Russian | |||
| 961 | 74320-74326 | Report by Prince Shakhovsky [IV.3] | 1881-1882 |
about the pogrom in Chernigov Province, August 1881-January 1882, Russian, 7 pp. | |||
| 961 | 74327-74334 | Pogrom in 1881 [IV.4] | 1881 |
correspondence about agitation between the police gendarmerie, typed copies, Russian, 8 pp. | |||
| 962 | 74335-74381 | Pogroms of 1882 [IV.5] | 1882 |
documents about the pogroms in Podolia, pp. 1-5; Kherson, pp. 6-14; Chernigov, pp. 15-16; Bessarabia, pp. 17-18; Kiev, pp. 19; Yekaterinoslav, pp. 20; Poland, pp. 21-23; general letters about pogroms, pp. 24-26; emigration and groups, pp. 27-29; addenda, pp. 30-46 | |||
| 963 | 74382-74397 | Odessa pogroms of 1900 [IV.6] | 1900-1902 |
pogrom in Konstantinovka, Lithuania, 1900 | |||
| 964 | 74398-74426 | Dubossary blood libel [IV.7] | 1903 |
copy, Russian, 29 pp. | |||
| 965 | 74427-74486 | Kishinev pogrom [IV.8] | 1903 |
copy, typescript, Russian, 60 pp. | |||
| 966 | 74487-74497 | Homel pogrom and Vitebsk confrontation [IV.9] | 1903 |
copy, typescript, Russian, 11 pp. | |||
| 966 | 74498-74501 | Pogroms in 1904 [IV.10] | 1904 |
pogroms in Vitebsk and Smola, copies in typescript, 8 pp. folio, Russian | |||
| 966 | 74502-74518 | Pogroms in 1905 [IV.11] | 1905 |
pogroms in Zhitomir, Polotsk, Vitebsk, Melitopol, Brest, and Grodno, copies and typescripts, 17 pp., Russian | |||
| 967 | 74519-74582 | Pogroms in 1905 [IV.12] | 1905 |
pogroms in Minsk, Saratov, Vitebsk, Skidele, Vilna, Yekaterinoslav, Kishinev, Bessarabia in general, Saratov, Bialystok, Grodno, Kiev, Berdichev, Uman, and Rostov | |||
| 968 | 74583-74591 | Bialystok pogrom [IV.13] | 1906 |
copies, typescript, 9 pp., Russian | |||
| 968 | 74592-74604 | Bialystok pogroms [IV.14] | 1905-1906 |
copies, typescript, 13 pp., Russian | |||
| 968 | 74605-74619 | Homel pogrom [IV.15] | 1906 |
copies, typescript. 15 pp., Russian | |||
| 969 | 74620-74624 | Miscellaneous pogroms, 1903-1907 [IV.16] | 1903-1907 |
a) Zvenigorodok, Kishinev, regarding Jewish recruits, Bialystok Pogrom, Siedlce pogrom, the situation in Podolia and Volhynia, copies, typescript, 4 pp., Russian | |||
| 969 | 74620-74624 | Miscellaneous pogroms, 1903-1907 [IV.16] | 1905 |
b) telegram to the Ministry of Justice about the pogrom in Melitopol, copy, typescript, 1 pp., Russian | |||
| 970 | 74625-74643 | Court case between residents of Birzai and Count Tyszkiewicz [IV.17] | 1892 |
printed copy of decisions of the suit and signature of Tyszkiewicz attorney, Bernard Andreevich Fridman, 19 pp., Russian | |||
| 971 | 74644-74671 | Project of Minister of Interior V.K. Plehve [IV.18] | 1904 |
regarding changes in legislation concerning Russian Jews, copy, typescript, 54 pp., Russian | |||
| 972 | 74672-74682 | Prince N. Golitzin’s book [IV.19] | 1886 |
excerpt from Istoriia Russkogo Zakonodatel’stva o Evreiakh (The History of Russian Legislation Regarding Jews), volume I, (1649-1825), St. Petersburg, Russian, 14 pp. | |||
| 973 | 74683-74863 | Report on the question of Jews’ education [IV.20] | 1886 |
by Georgeevskii, A., to the Pahlen Commission, printed, 314 pp., notes by Dubnow | |||
| 974 | 74864-74917 | Review of the Laws Regarding Jews in Russia Today [IV.21] | 1883 |
report by Margolis for the Pahlen Commission, Russian | |||
| 975 | 74918-75052 | The Jewish Question and the Pogroms of 1881-1882 [IV.22] | undated |
report for the Pahlen Commission, 248 pp., Russian | |||
| 976 | 75053-75057 | Megillat Shabtai [IV.23] | 1893, undated |
chronicles of the pogrom in the town of Bobovne in the year 5589 (1829), Hebrew, copied from a manuscript by R’ Aharon Yehoshua Tov be-ha-rav Shabtai, 4 pp., undated | |||
Series V: Miscellaneous, 1760-1921. | |||
| 15 folders | |||
Scope and Content:This series contains a variety of historical documents that often overlap with the above listed materials. Worth mentioning is a collection of family documents of the Dubnow family, including personal documents of Ben-Tsion Dubnow, Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, who was a teacher in Mstislavl. | |||
| Folder | Page | Title | Date |
| 977 | 75058-75085 | General Privilegium und Reglement [V.1] | 1912 |
issued by Friedrich II in 1750 for the Jews of Prussia, copy, German | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1782 |
a) contract with Michal Parczewski regarding building a house on his parcel of land, Polish, 2 pp., original | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1799 |
b) contract, 17 April, regarding leasing a parcel of land in Mstislavl, Polish, 1 pp., original | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1825 |
c) script of an administrative decision in connection with a request by Velki (Volf?) Dubnow, son of Ben-Tsion, 21 August, regarding a house | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1831 |
d) decision about a rental by Velki (Volf?) Dubnow, 29 September, Russian, 2 pp. | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1839 |
e) will and testament of Victor (Avigdor), son of Volf Dubnow, 24 August, Russian, 4 pp. | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1839 |
f) fragment of will, Hebrew, written in Avigdor (Victor) Dubnow’s hand | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1844 |
g) certificate issued to Ben-Tsion Dubnow by the Mstislavl magistrate concerning his father’s (Avigdor’s) will, Russian, 22 January, 4 pp. | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | undated |
h) blank check, signed by Avigdor Dubnow, Russian | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1885 |
i) power of attorney for handling matters in the name of the Christian and Jewish merchants in Mstislavl and requesting permits for brick houses, April, draft, Russian, 2 pp. | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1838 |
j) contract between Avigdor (Victor) Dubnow and Yisrael-Isser, son of R’ Mordekhai Khazanov, 23 August, presented to the Mstislavl police, with signatures and approvals, Russian, 2 pp. | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1838 |
k) contract with the signatures of Avigdor, son of Rabbi Volf Dubnow, Yisrael-Isser, son of R’ Mordekhai Khazanov, and others, Hebrew, 2 pp., 6 Elul 5598, Mstislavl | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1856-1858 |
l) five documents concerning the Jewish School in Mstislavl | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1856 |
m) ledger of Ben-Tsion Dubnow as honorary chairman of the Mstislavl Jewish school for the year 1856, 2 pp., Russian | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1820 |
n) letter from Avigdor Dubnow to his brother Moshe regarding his rights to the house in Mstislavl, November, Russian, 2 pp. | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1843 |
o) certified notice from Hillel Rapoport to Ya'akov, son of David Yakubson, 9 December, regarding decisions of the court in Vilna concerning a house, Russian, 2 pp. | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1865 |
p) (1) request from Ben-Tsion, son of Avigdor Dubnow, to borrow money to rebuild his house that had burned down, on the grounds of the royal decree of 1859 | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1863 |
p) (2) request from Ben-Tsion, son of Avigdor Dubnow, to the head of the Mohilev Province, 31 October, related to the fires of 1858 and 1863 in Mstislavl | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1861 |
q) (1) request from Nahman, son of Mordekhai Kahanov of Mstislavl, regarding a debt of 150 rubles, September | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1858 |
q) (2) loan document from Leib, son of Avrom Kahanov, dated 14 July, regarding the obligation of Nahman, son of Mordekhai Kahanov, Russian, 2 pp. | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1869 |
r) certification to Ben-Tsion, son of Avigdor Dubnow, December, granting permission to live anywhere in Russia, Russian, 2 pp. | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1843 |
s) contract regarding residence in the house of Ben-Tsion Dubnow, between himself and Leib Lipshits, dated 1 May, originals with signatures of Dubnow, Lipshits and witnesses, Russian, 2 pp. | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | undated |
t) mortgage document | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1851 |
u) contract drawn by the Mstislavl community about installing a new shoykhet, Shneyer Yitskhok, son of Shmuel Halevy, with signatures of a large number of town balebatim (bourgeoisie), among them Ben-Tsion Dubnow, 2 pp., Hebrew | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1856 |
v) petition for help for Pesach from the community of Mstislavl to Countess Saltykova, as their protector, in connection with the banishment of 1843, 3 pp. | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1860 |
w) response to a request to the Mohilev governor from the Mstislavl citizens and merchants’ association, 4 pp. | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | undated |
x) listing of ma'ot hittim donations in Mstislavl with many names of local balebatim (bourgeoisie), Hebrew | |||
| 978 | 75086-75159 | Family papers of Simon Dubnow’s grandfather, Ben-Tsion Dubnow [V.2] | 1906 |
y) beit din of Mstislavl, judgement dated Monday, 26 Sivan, 5666, regarding house belonging to David, son of Meyer Frumkin and his sister-in-law, shows signatures of beit din and witnesses, Hebrew, 2p. | |||
| 979 | 75160-75182 | Decisions of Lithuanian assessors in the trial of the Vilna Kahal of 1767 [V.3] | 1798-1807 |
excerpted from the municipal books of Vilna county, 1799, Polish, 8 pp. numbered 216-220, with signature | |||
| 980 | 75183-75206 | Lists [V.4] | 1760 |
copied and transcribed in a notebook, 40 pp., Russian | |||
| 980 | 75183-75206 | Lists [V.4] | 1794 |
b) excerpt from the book Talmud Stories, Polish, pp. 8 | |||
| 980 | 75183-75206 | Lists [V.4] | undated |
c) excerpt from Jewish seforim by the priest Pazdzierski, translated from the Polish into Russian | |||
| 980 | 75183-75206 | Lists [V.4] | undated |
d) listing of 48 Jewish and Christian prisoners arrested in connection with the Velizh trial, Russian | |||
| 980 | 75183-75206 | Lists [V.4] | 1817 |
e) letter from the Minister of Education, Count Golitsin, to the Governor of Grodno, dated 6 March, about the annulment of the Velizh blood libel, Russian copy | |||
| 981 | 75207-75214 | Regulating Jewish emigration [V.5] | 1890 |
letter, Russian, copy with addenda | |||
| 981 | 75214-75239 | Proposal for establishing Jewish caucuses in European parliaments [V.6] | 1906 |
by Simon Bernfeld, copy, German, 25 pp. | |||
| 982 | 75240-75371 | Minutes of the committee to publish documents about the blood libel trials in Russia [V.7] | 1920 |
meetings during 1919 and 1920, Russian, 133 pp. | |||
| 983 | 75372-75438 | Velizh trial [V.8] | 1816, 1828 |
Grodno, Russian, copies, 65 pp. | |||
| 984 | 75439-75493 | Vilna Archeographic Commission, Northwest, and Southwest [V.9] | 1902 |
table of contents of Jewish-related documents, 93 pp., text and prefatory page, Russian, assembled by Dubnow | |||
| 985 | 75494-75505 | Excerpts from a book by Kostamarov [V.10] | 1870 |
prepared by Dubnow, Russian, 8 pp. | |||
| 985 | 75506-75517 | Listings from various Russian periodicals [V.11] | 1891-1892 |
list made in Rostov-Don | |||
| 985 | 75506-75517 | Listings from various Russian periodicals [V.11] | undated |
list is undated | |||
| 985 | 75518-75519 | Nayeste Veltkunde (periodical) [V.12] | 1798 |
volume I, #1, January, 4 pp. German | |||
| 985 | (Missing) Project to establish the Alliance Israelite [V.13] | 1858-1860 | |
French, 9 pp. | |||
| 985 | 75520-75522 | Program for the Jewish-Democratic Party [V.14] | 1905 |
founded by Bramson et al, St. Petersburg, February, copy, Russian, 3 pp. folio, with remarks by Dubnow in Russian | |||
| 985 | 75523A–75523H | Nahum Sokolow’s letters [V.15] | 1906 |
dealing with his work on the history of Jewish emancipation in Western Europe and Jewish representations in parliaments | |||
| 986 | 75524-75532 | Jewish Education in St. Petersburg [V.16] | undated |
a) proposal for establishing a Jewish religious institute in St. Petersburg, 4 pp., typed, Russian | |||
| 986 | 75524-75532 | Jewish Education in St. Petersburg [V.16] | 1911 |
b) minutes of the three meetings of the Pedagogic Council of the Baron Guenzburg Higher Courses in Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg, 3 pp., Russian | |||
| 986 | 75524-75532 | Jewish Education in St. Petersburg [V.16] | 1902 |
c) program of the Baron Guenzburg Higher Courses in Oriental Studies, 2 pp., Russian | |||
| 986 | 75533-75543 | Role of the government in the deporting of Jews in the World War, 1914-1915 [V.17] | undated |
report, Russian typescript, 22 pp. | |||
| 986 | 75544-75550 | Jewish expropriators in Yekaterinoslav [V.18] | undated |
a) report of executions of Jews in Yekaterinoslav jails, Russian, typescript, 2 pp. | |||
| 986 | 75544-75550 | Jewish expropriators in Yekaterinoslav [V.18] | 1908 |
b) letter from the Yekaterinoslav Police Chief to the rabbi, 20 November | |||
| 986 | 75544-75550 | Jewish expropriators in Yekaterinoslav [V.18] | 1906 |
c) letter to the rabbi regarding burial of expropriators, Russian, 4 pp. | |||
| 986 | 75544-75550 | Jewish expropriators in Yekaterinoslav [V.18] | undated |
d) copies of letters by B.Y. Toporovsky, who sent the above documents to Dubnow | |||
| 986 | 75551-75558 | World War I in 1914-1915 [V.19] | 1914 |
a) report by Georg Brandes on the situation in the war zone on the eastern front, Politicken, 26 October, No. 299, Russian, typescript, 6 pp. | |||
| 986 | 75551-75558 | World War I in 1914-1915 [V.19] | 1915 |
b) description of the grave situation by a 13 year-old girl, Russian translation, typescript, 2 pp. | |||
| 987 | 75559-75563 | The disturbances of 1918 [V.20] | 1918 |
a) atrocities by Polish legionnaires in the towns, Russian, 3 pp. | |||
| 987 | 75559-75563 | The disturbances of 1918 [V.20] | 1918 |
b) report by Y. Kopelovitsh about the polish legionnaires in Starye Dorogi, Russian, 2 pp. | |||
| 987 | 75564-75585 | Archives of the Justice Ministry [V.21] | 1798-1800 |
excerpts from various documents, prepared by the Archeographic Commission (continuation from V.9) assembled by Dubnow, Russian | |||
| 987 | 75586-75587 | Book by Dr. M. Friedlander [V.22] | 1883 |
Zur geschichte der Blutbeschuldigungen gegen di Juden in Mitlalter un in der Neuzeit … nach die Quellen darzustellen, 1871-1883 (about blood libel since the medieval period), 3rd edition, Vienna, 2 pp., German | |||
| 988 | 75588 | Permission for Rahel Segal to remain in the city in order to prepare for baptism [V.23] | 1893 |
photocopy, remarks by Dubnow, St. Petersburg, 14 February | |||
| 988 | 75589-75590 | Approvals for the shas (set of Talmud) [V.24] | 1904 |
torn out of a volume of Gemara, printed at the end of the 18th century in Nowy Dwor | |||
| 988 | (Missing) Ketubah for Avraham Hayim, son of Pinhas and Avigayl, daughter of Mula Aliz Badal [V.25] | 1862 | |
Bukhara, 10 Adar, 5522, 1pp., Hebrew square lettering | |||
| 988 | (Missing) Letter to the Community in Miedzybozh from Teveriah (Tiberias) [V.26] | 1821 | |
about support for the Sefardim and the grave of R’ Meyer Ba'al ha-Ness, 5481, Hebrew and Aramaic, 1 pp. | |||
| 988 | 75591 | Text for an oath in Yiddish [V.27] | 1844 |
printed in Russian transcription, with various signatures, dated 14 July, 1 pp. | |||
| 988 | 75592 | Solicitation to collect folksongs [V.28] | 1898 |
by S. Ginzburg and P. Marek, April, Russian, 1 pp. | |||
| 988 | 75593-75611 | Istoricheskii Vestnik [V.29] | 1870-1887 |
clippings about Jews, notebook, 15 pp. and 2 pieces numbered 16 and 17 | |||
| 989 | 75612-75621 | Clippings from Hamelitz [V.30] | 1760 |
a) text of a gravestone, dated Thursday, 17 Iyar 5407 | |||
| 989 | 75612-75621 | Clippings from Hamelitz [V.30] | undated |
b) text of memorial to the martyrs (victims) of Zaslav | |||
| 989 | 75612-75621 | Clippings from Hamelitz [V.30] | 1892 |
c) Kedoshei Zaslav by Yosef Kantortshik, issues #195 and #198 | |||
| 989 | 75612-75621 | Clippings from Hamelitz [V.30] | 1893 |
d) R’ Matityahu Delakrut, by Aharon Kaminka, issue #234, 23 October | |||
| 989 | 75612-75621 | Clippings from Hamelitz [V.30] | 1894 |
e) salhonim (supplications, prayers), eloquent texts from the pinkas of the bikur holim, dated 5524 (1764) | |||
| 989 | 75612-75621 | Clippings from Hamelitz [V.30] | 1894 |
f) chronicles of Jews from the Horodno area for the year 5524 (1764) by Sh. Viner, Hamelitz #148 | |||
| 989 | 75612-75621 | Clippings from Hamelitz [V.30] | 1894 |
g) Memorial Day, by Hillel Shteynshnayder | |||
| 989 | 75612-75621 | Clippings from Hamelitz [V.30] | 1894 |
h) listings of the Jewish events in Volhynia, by Yehiel Zatulovsky | |||
| 990 | 75622-75627 | Yiddish and Hebrew clippings from various publications [V.31] | 1906 |
a) from Der Veg (The Road), 21 June, about economic terror | |||
| 990 | 75622-75627 | Yiddish and Hebrew clippings from various publications [V.31] | 1906 |
b) from Der Veg, 28 July, a letter from Laufman, about anarchism | |||
| 990 | 75622-75627 | Yiddish and Hebrew clippings from various publications [V.31] | 1906 |
c) from Fraynd (Friend), about Murafa, in Podolia Province | |||
| 990 | 75622-75627 | Yiddish and Hebrew clippings from various publications [V.31] | 1906 |
d) from Hazman, call from a former member of the Duma of Wyborg, 14 July | |||
| 990 | 75622-75627 | Yiddish and Hebrew clippings from various publications [V.31] | 1906 |
e) from Hazman, 10 June, about Bialystok pogrom | |||
| 990 | 75622-75627 | Yiddish and Hebrew clippings from various publications [V.31] | undated |
f) from Fraynd, about the martyrs of Pavoloch | |||
| 990 | 75628-75633 | Russian clippings from various publications [V.32] | 1890-1921 |
eight clippings about the pogrom in Niezhin vicinity, and other topics | |||
| 991 | 75634-75635 | Clippings from Voskhod [V.33] | 1903 |
documents about Jews in Chernigov and Brest Litovsk, from issues #51 and 52, documents dating from 1648 and 1654 | |||
| 991 | 75636-75637 | Review of Yevreyskaya Starina [V.34] | 1919 |
from volume X, off-print, in Russian, 2 pp. | |||
Series VI: Literaria, 1662-1938. | |||
| 26 folders | |||
Scope and Content:This series contains biographical materials about notable rabbinical figures, mainly from the territory of Poland. | |||
| Folder | Page | Title | Date |
| 992 | 75638-75656 | Letters from R’ Yosef Levinshteyn [VI.1] | 1894-1895, undated |
about various rabbis in Poland, starting with RaShal (R’ Shloyme Luria) and ReMa (R’ Moshe Isserlis), and also about the earliest Hasidic leaders (R’ David of Makow, the Tishevitser “Moshiakh”), the martyrs of Lublin from 1636, and R' Nahman Adler, Serock, 11 letters, Hebrew | |||
| 993 | 75657-75664 | Introduction to the book Vikuah mayim hayim [VI.2] | 1712 |
by R’ Khayim son of Betsalel, Amsterdam, 5472, copy, 8 pp., Hebrew | |||
| 993 | 75665-75669 | Letter from Ya’akov Shapiro [VI.3] | 1895 |
about the situation of the rabbis and the state of Hebrew language in 17th century Poland, 10 Elul 5655, Mezrich, 5 pp., with copies of various religious books, Hebrew | |||
| 993 | 75670-75677 | Introduction and approvals to the book Ir-David (City of David) [VI.4] | undated |
by R’ David Lida from the year 1680-1681, about the pogrom in Lvov of 5424 (1664) and the names of the rabbis of that time | |||
| 994 | 75678-75679 | Excerpts from the book Panim me'irot – responsa [VI.5] | 1715 |
by R’ Meyer son of Yitshak of Szydlowce, Amsterdam, 5475, two volumes, and other notes, Hebrew, 2 pp. | |||
| 994 | 75680-75681 | Genealogy records of the Margolius family [VI.6] | 1808 |
from manuscript by R’ Tzvi-Hirsh Margolius, dated 5568, sent to Dubnow by Dr. Chazanovitsh with a notation by Yosef Melnik, the copyist, Hebrew, 2 pp. | |||
| 994 | 75682 | Approval by the Rabbi of Maciejow, R’ Shmuel son of Hayim Lanzer [VI.7] | 1790 |
approval for Sefer Harefues by Dr. Moyshe Markusi, Poryck, 5550, Hebrew, 1 pp. | |||
| 994 | 75683-75684 | Public notice about the misuse of the quotations and writings of the Gaon of Vilna [VI.8] | 1800 |
from the Vilna Calendar for the year 5560, sent to Dubnow by Dr. Chazanovitsh, Hebrew, 2 pp. | |||
| 994 | 75685-75688 | Introduction by Louis Meyer to his autobiography [VI.9] | 1871 |
copied from his book, Berlin, German and Hebrew, 4 pp. | |||
| 994 | 75689-75690 | Letter from Feivel Frenkl [VI.10] | 1893 |
about R’ Shlomo and his son R’ Yehudah of Lublin and the elegy about their deaths, from the book Shalshelet ha-kabbalah, Kiev, 24 Tamuz 5653, Hebrew, 2 pp. | |||
| 994 | 75691-75694 | Statutes of the Three Kehillot/Communities [VI.11] | 1715 |
copy of the book, Altona, Hamburg and Wandsbeck, dated 5475, clothing laws, from the copy in the Strashun Library in Vilna | |||
| 995 | 75695-75696 | Letters and a homily by R’ Azriel Leib Rakovski [VI.12] | 1880 |
chief of the beit din of Plock in the year 5640, concerning his rabbinate in Mstislavl, with a remark by Dubnow’s brother, Ze’ev-Volf, Hebrew, 2 pp. | |||
| 995 | 75697 | Appeal of acquittal for the brothers Yehezkel and David [VI.13] | 1831 |
sons of R’ Avraham Yehudah-Leib Segal (aka Laybl Vilkiyer) and a request for their support, in the time of their trials in court, issued by the beit din and kehilla of Vilna, with signatures and a seal, 21 Kislev, 5592, original, 1 pp. | |||
| 995 | 75698-75710 | Invocation in honor of the crowning of the Tsar Nicholas in 1894 [VI.14] | 1896 |
by Menahem Nahum Litinsky, dated 5656, in the form of a drama, Hebrew, 12 pp. | |||
| 995 | 75711-75714 | Todah ha-ba'ah le-aharei ha-zeman (Thanks that came too late) [VI.15] | 1878 |
by Yehudah Leib Gordon, composed in 5638, not printed for reasons of censorship | |||
| 996 | 75715-75762 | Teater fun Khasidim | undated |
in 3 separate acts, performed in Lvov, 1839-1843 | |||
| 997 | 75763-75815 | Responsa between Lithuanian and Lubavich Rebbes and the rabbis of the surrounding areas | ca.1820-1829 |
handwritten notebook | |||
| 998 | 75816-75969 | Sefer beit Aharon | 1843 |
by Rabbi Aharon of Karlin | |||
| 999 | 75970-76034 | Sihot ha-Ran ve-sippurim me-R’ Nahman mi-Bratslav | 1891 |
Bratslaver homilies and stories, manuscript, 5586 (1826), with Dubnow’s written comments and annotations | |||
| 1000 | 76035-76107 | Personal documents of Polish inhabitants of Vilna, 17th-19th centuries | 1863-1872 |
includes a last will, and documents related to disposition of real estate property in Vilna, Polish and Latin | |||
| 1001 | 76108-76119 | Chronicle of the blood libel in Mezrich in the year 5576 (1815-1816) | 1892 |
Ya’akov Shapiro, 5652 | |||
| 1001 | 76120 | Bukharan ketubah | 1662 |
dated 5422 | |||
| 1001 | 76121 | Receipt for toll duty paid by a Jew | 1849 |
Warsaw | |||
| 1001 | 76122 | Letter by Dubnow about the blood libel in Telsiai in 1827 | undated |
Reel 77 | |||
| 1002 | 76123-76140 | Documents and correspondence with O. Grunenberg | 1890 |
about anti-Jewish statements made by officials in Mstislavl | |||
| 1003 | 76141-76146 | Genesis of a ritual lie | 1882, 1913 |
article by Dubnow about blood libels, written in connection with the Beilis trial, printed in Dien, 1913 | |||
| 1004 | 76147-76223 | The debate (kultur-kampf) in the Odessa branch of the Hevrei Mefitzei Haskalah | 1901-1902 |
about establishing a national Jewish school network in Russia | |||
| 1005 | 76224-76243 | Kishinev Pogrom, April 20, 1903 | 1903 |
correspondence, appeal in Hebrew, by Agudat Soferim Ivri'im (The Union of Hebrew Writers) | |||
| 1006 | 76244-76248 | Projected declaration by Russian Jewry about the patriotic duty of Jews in wartime and about the hopes of achieving equality | 1915 |
copies, includes Dubnow’s editorial comments, January | |||
| 1007 | 76249-76290 | Zurich conference about Jewish rights | 1927 |
speech by Dubnow, report, dispatches by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, press reports in Yiddish, German, Russian | |||
| 1008 | 76291-76299 | Shalom Schwarzbard trial | 1927 |
press statements | |||
| 1009 | 76300-76308 | Enquiry from Funk and Wagnall publishers about Jesus | 1899-1901 |
correspondence with Dubnow, K. Kohler, Nahum Sokolow and others | |||
| 1010 | 76309-76316 | Manuscript about the town Wilki | undated |
by Avraham Yehudah-Leib ben Mordekhai Markus | |||
| 1011 | 76317-76332 | Dubnow’s answers responses to the greetings on his 70th birthday | 1930 |
notes, envelopes | |||
| 1012 | 76333-76373 | Sefer Megillas Sedorim Lehisaneg Lifney Heykhal Oyneg | 1884 |
Prague, 5551-5552 (1791-1792), by R’ Yehuda, son of Mordekhai ha-Levi, Ish Hurvits, Warsaw | |||
| 1013 | 76374-76567 | Books from Dubnow’s library | 1895-1899 |
Isaac Hirsch Weiss, Zikhronotai (My Memoirs), Warsaw 5655 (1895) | |||
| 1014 | 76568-76596 | Dubnow’s memoirs | 1932-1933, undated |
clippings of chapters published in Folksblat, Der Tog and Di Tsukunft | |||
| 1015 | 76597-76760 | World History of the Jewish People | undated |
Russian manuscripts of volume III | |||
| 1016 | 76761-77032 | World History of the Jewish People | 1936 |
proofs of the German edition of volume I | |||
| 1017 | 77033-77080 | Various articles by Dubnow | 1927-1938 |
including articles about: | |||
Series VII: Letters to Dubnow, 1885-1931, 1961. | |||
| 26 folders | |||
Scope and Content:This series consists of letters written to Dubnow. A large part of the series consists of letters from zamlers (collectors) from the 1890s who participated in the search for Jewish historical materials. The correspondence is replete with discussions about documents, their location, availability, etc. The other letters in this series are from fellow historians and other scholars, including Yitzhak Antonovski, Martin Buber, Shim’on Goldlast, Elias Tcherikower, Maxim Vinaver, Max Weinreich, and Chaim Zhitlowsky. The number of letters is in parentheses. | |||
| Folder | Page | Title | Date |
| 1018 | 77081-77087 | Dubnow’s ad-hoc notes on the envelopes | undated |
Reel 79 | |||
| 1019 | 77088-77102 | Aleph א | 1894-1896, 1924-1931 |
Shmuel Alexandrovich, Bobruisk, (1), 5655 (1895) | |||
| 1020 | 77103-77139 | Beys ב | 1891-1900, 1931 |
Barukh Bobis, (1), 1893 | |||
| 1021 | 77140-77220 | Gimel ג | 1892-1927 |
Eliahu ha-Levi Gabrielev, Nesvizh, 1893 | |||
| 1022 | 77221-77287 | Gimel-Hey ג-ה | 1892-1931 |
Yosef-Hayim Dorozhko, (1) | |||
| 1023 | 77288-77298 | Vov ו | 1893-1896, 1931 |
Volf Vaynshteyn, Kishinev, (1), 1894 | |||
| 1024 | 77299-77345 | Vov ו | 1921-1925 |
Maxim Vinaver, Paris, (3), 1922-1923 | |||
| 1025 | 77346-77364 | Zayin-Khes ז-ח | 1892-1897 |
D. Z. Zakharin, Odessa, (1), 1896 | |||
| 1026 | 77365-77396 | Khes-Khaf ח-כ | 1885-1900, 1931 |
Avraham Taub, Timisvar, (German) (1), 1931 | |||
| 1027 | 77397-77416 | Lamed-Mem ל-מ | 1888-1898 |
A. Leon (1), 1892 | |||
| 1028 | 77417-77453 | Nun-Ayin נ-ע | 1892-1899, 1928 |
Yitzhak Nisenbaum (1), 1895 | |||
| 1029 | 77454-77490 | Pey-Fey פ-פֿ | 1891-1898, 1931 |
Shmuel Figit, Yekaterinoslav (1) | |||
| 1030 | 77491-77516 | Kuf ק | 1888-1898 |
Sha'ul Kazarnovsky, Lyadi, (2), 1893 | |||
| 1031 | 77517-77527 | Resh ר | 1892-1903, 1931 |
M. Rabinovich, Jerusalem, (1), 5691 (1931) | |||
| 1032 | 77528-77558 | Shin ש | 1891-1910, 1928-1932 |
Dr. Moshe Schorr, Vienna, (3), 1900 | |||
| 1033 | 77559-77566 | Unidentified letters | undated |
also documents sent along with letters | |||
| 1034 | 77567-77646 | Various materials about Dubnow collected by Riva Tcherikower | 1916, undated |
including: | |||
| 1035 | 77647-77749 | Various materials about Dubnow collected by Riva Tcherikower | 1961 |
catalogues of Dubnow exhibits at YIVO | |||
| 1036 | 77750-77833 | Various materials about Dubnow collected by Riva Tcherikower | undated |
news clippings about Dubnow | |||
| 1037 | 77834-77905 | Copies of letters from S. Dubnow | undated |
Yosef Opatoshu | |||
| 1038 | 77906-77924 | Copies of letters from S. Dubnow | undated |
Max Weinreich (also some from Weinreich) | |||
| 1039 | 77925-77986 | Copies of letters from S. Dubnow | undated |
Daniel Charney | |||
| 1040 | 77987-78069 | Copies of letters from S. Dubnow | undated |
the Jewish Youth Library in Rio de Janeiro | |||
| 1041 | 78070-78163 | Copies of letters from S. Dubnow | undated |
David Movshovitsh | |||
| 1042 | 78164-78198 | Copies of letters from S. Dubnow | undated |
M. Sudarsky | |||
| 1043 | 78199-78269 | Copies of letters from S. Dubnow | undated |
Ya’akov Shatzky | |||
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