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REIGN OF SOVEREIGN EMPRESS ANNA IOANNOVNA
1739 yr.
21. – August 18. Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers upon the Senate's
report.--
On the prohibition of Jews to keep taverns in Malorossia and give them anything in
rent.
Report. According to the decree, which took place in the former Supreme Secret
Council in 1727, the 26th of April *), the following was ordered: the Jews of male and
female sex,
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*) See No. 13, page 7.
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1740 yr.
which are dwelling in Ukraine and in other Russian cities, should all be sent abroad out from Russia
immediately, and henceforth they should not be allowed to enter Russia, and about that the warning
should be spread in all places; and while they are leaving, they must be looked at closely so that they
should not export from Russia abroad any gold and golden coins nor any Russian silver coins or the
Jefimok(s) shall not be taken out at all. But if they do have Chervonets(s) and Jefimok(s) or any kind of
Russian coins, for those shall be exchanged with equivalent in copper coins: about that then the Decree
was sent to the Governorates and to Malaya [Little Russia] Rossia. Then, and on the most sensitive
points, the orders were given to the deceased Hetman Apostle in 1728, August 22nd *): the Jews could
only be allowed to enter to Malaya Russia to do merchant's trade at trade-fairs, but they could not live
in it, and so that no one should let them to settle – that is forbidden by the force of the Decree.
And in the year of 738, the Register was sent to the Senate from Glukhov, from the General Military
Chancellery, and in that record, was shown that in Malaya Russia in the lands underwritten (reassigned)
to Her Imperial Majesty and in proprietary lands retired to Her Imperium, in the localities where the
Jews are living they make for sale wine, beer and honey, and of them there are 13 people including
those who came from Poland, and those 127 people accepted by the above-mentioned decree of 1727.
And according to the determination of the Governing Senate, those Jews were ordered to be sent
immediately abroad by force of the above-mentioned decree of 1727, of which the order was sent, and
to which the General Military Chancellery informs that, in the wake of the present war the concern is
that if the Jews are sent abroad, and they could be aware of the local whereabouts (emplacement,
disposition), so that through their present deportation would not have followed (occurred) some
espionage. And though by that the Senate argues that the Jews must certainly be sent abroad and not
allowed to return and continue to trade except at the trade-fairs, so that through their habitation, and
notably during the present military situation, would not occur any espionage; However, this issue also
demands an overall discourse (collective reasoning) from the Cabinet of Her Imperial Majesty.
Resolution. The exile of the Jews is judged to be postponed until the end of the current Turkish
war, and how many of them and who are merchants, or tavern managers, or others, and from what kind
of crafts they live, and in which cities and places are dwelling, and exactly on whose tenures
(properties) – the complete register must be composed and sent immediately from the Malorussian
(Little Russian) Chancellery to the Senate. And in the meanwhile, the Malorussian Chancellery is
ordered to watch closely and strictly forbid anyone in the whole of the Little Russia to shelter or hire
the Jews, or keep them in their taverns, nor give them anything for rent. (P.P. S. 3, Vol. X, No. 7869).
Translation by Anastasia SavenkoMoore and Rick Moore, Eugene OR.
Funded by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture NYC, http://mfjc.org/.
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