Testimony of Aaron Abramowicz accused of conspiracy against the land rabbi

Interrogation of Aaron Abramowicz from Nowy Wiśnicz, a servant of the land rabbi, accused of conspiracy against the land rabbi of Kraków, on the basis of the questions prepared by the instigator of the Voivode court. He describes the activities of the rabbis of Nowy Korczyn, Stopnica, and Wodzisław who, together with the Ickowicz brothers, the leaseholders from Słuck, sought to remove Dawid Szmelka from the office and appoint Józef Icek Jonowicz, Szmujła Ickowicz's son-in-law. Aaron claimed that he had been forced by them to collect signatures against Dawid Szmelka and blamed Haskel Wulfowicz from Tarnów, the marshal of the land, who urged the land elders to sign and choose a new rabbi during the regional council in Tarłów.

 

Archive: Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv
Fond: Archive of Tarlo Family (Fond 254)
Reference Number: CGIA Kijów, Fond 254 [Arch. Tarłów], op. 1, sp. 1183, s. 12r -13v [kopia]
Language: Polish
Creation Date: 07.1742 - 09.1742
Place of origin: Opole Lubelskie
Geographical names: Biała Podlaska, Chmielnik, Cracow (Kraków), Koniecpol, Nowy Korczyn, Nowy Wisnicz, Olkusz, Opole Lubelskie, Pińczów, Sandomierz, Slutsk, Stopnica, Tarlow, Tarnow, Warsaw (Warszawa), Wodzisław
Notes:

Zeznania na mocy wyroku z dn. 17 VII 1742.

Mikrofilm: The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP), HM3/ 250.47

Published: Żydowski samorząd ziemski w Koronie (XVII -XVIII wiek). Źródła, wstęp i oprac. A. Kaźmierczyk, P. Zarubin, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2019, pp. 494-496.