Declaration of the Jews of the Zamość Entailed Estate against the Chełm and Bełz Jewish elders

Lejba Aronowicz, the general plenipotentiary of the Jews of the Zamość Entailed Estate and elder of the Włodzimierz poviat Jews, declares in their name against the land elders of Chełm and the Bełz Voivodeship, and especially their marshal, Abraham, and Fiszel, the general scribe, regarding their failure to implement the decree of the Jewish arbitration court of 21 May 1721 and the settlement of 23 July 1721 approved by the Crown treasurer and the lack of response by the two abovementioned elders to the same treasurer’s letter in the matter of putting an unfair burden of wyderkauf and taxes on the communities of the Zamość Entailed Estate.
Archive: The State Archive in Lublin
Fond: Horodlo castle court files (Księgi grodzkie horodelskie)
Reference Number: APL, Horodelskie RMO 43, s. 1030-1032
Language: Latin
Creation Date: 10.10.1721
Place of origin: Horodło
Geographical names: Belz (Bełz), Chełm (Chelm), Horodło, Volodymyr-Volynsky (Włodzimierz Wołyński), Zamosc
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Published: Żydowski samorząd ziemski w Koronie (XVII -XVIII wiek). Źródła, wstęp i oprac. A. Kaźmierczyk, P. Zarubin, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2019, pp. 450, 451.