Artifacts
Description of shtetl SHEPETOVKA 1885 (Source: VOLOSTI AND MAJOR INHABITED PLACES) (a volost is a small district including several villages )
#702. SHEPETOVKA, a shtetl which used to be private, on the GUSKA River, containing 200 households, 1905 inhabitants; volost seat (county seat 20 miles); Orthodox church, Catholic church, a synagogue, two Jewish prayer houses, a hospital, four guest houses, a pub, 29 shops, four fairs, and an artificial mineral water plant. Nearby is a beet sugar plant, two brick plants, and a tile or shingle manufacturer. A railroad station is about 3 miles away. These images and translations provided by Ilya Zeldes.
Geographic Dictionary of the Former Kingdom of Poland and Other Slavic Lands provides an early (1890) geographical and historical description of Shepetovka. Images provided by Ilya Zeldes. If anyone can translate this text from Polish into English, please contact me.
Ilya Zeldes has located and contributed two original Revision Lists from the 1880s. Although each of these lists is only for a single person, there is interesting and official information within. The lists were found in the State Archives Zhitomer Oblast and are within the "Additional Revision Lists for Volyn Guberniya for 1883. The surnames are Tantser (Tentser) and Ashepa. Record 1, page 1 (cover): Additional Revision List of 1881-11-04, for the Volyn guberniya, Zaslav uezd, shtetle Shepetovka, Jewish city dweller Moshko Peisokhovich Tantser. Approved by the Treasury on 13-10-1882. Record 1, page 2: City dweller Moshko Peisokhovich Tentser, 25 years old. His son Ios Mordko, newborn, 1 year old. Record 1, page 3: Moshko Peisokhovich's wife Sura, 22 years old. This Revision List is signed by Leiba Shvartsman. Record 2, page 1 (cover): Additional Revision List of 1880-07-21, for the Volyn guberniya, Zaslav uezd, shtetle Shepetovka, for a single male Jewish soul missing in the previous revision. Approved by the Treasury on 26-07-1883. Record 2, page 2: Listed as #131 in the general revision lists of the Tenth Revision. Teviya Shulimovich Ashepa, 23 years old (by appearance). Record 2, page 3: No female entry. The last two sheets show listings for Ios Shulim Gershkevich, listed in 1863 DAZhO 118-13-864 Frame 166 Merchant Records.
Immigrants to the United States from Shepetovka formed associations in order to provide assistance to Shepetovka and to Israel, as well as to socialize with each other. These associations were formed in New York and Chicago (and perhaps elsewhere). Several booklets from their archives have survived and are shown below. Click the upper right-hand corner of each booklet if you would like to read in full. If you have additional booklets or more information about these associations, please contact this webpage designer.
Source: The Miriam Weiner Archives
Articles of Incorporation NY merged pdf.pdfShepetovka Const and Bylaws Complete merged.pdfDirectory and Yearbook p1.pdfNY 1948 Shepetovker Young Mens Assn.pdfNew York 1950
NYC Banquet 1950.pdfNew York 1957
NY Banquet 1957 Complete Merged.pdfNY 1966 Shepetovker Young Mens Assn.pdfNY 1961 Shepetovker Young Mens Assn.pdfNY 1956 Shepetovker Young Mens Assn.pdfNY Members List date unknown.pdfChicago 1947 Complete Merged.pdfChicago 1968 Complete Merged.pdfThis extensive collection of booklets from The Sudilkov-Shepetowka Relief Society of Chicago is printed here due to the generous donation of these materials by Jean Kaplan Teichroew to the Miriam Weiner Archives.
Chicago 1936.pdfChicago 1937.pdfChicago 1938.pdfChicago 1939.pdfChicago 1940.pdfChicago 1941.pdfChicago 1942.pdfChicago 1943.pdfChicago 1944.pdfChicago 1945.pdfChicago 1946.pdfChicago 1947.pdfChicago 1948.pdfChicago 1949.pdfChicago 1950.pdfChicago 1951.pdfChicago 1952.pdfChicago 1953.pdfChicago 1954.pdfChicago 1955.pdfChicago 1956.pdfChicago 1957.pdfChicago 1958.pdfChicago 1959.pdfChicago 1960.pdfChicago 1961.pdfChicago 1962.pdfChicago 1963.pdfChicago 1965.pdfChicago 1966.pdf
These menorah fragments were located by Axel Reineke, who provided these photographs. The inscription reads: "This menorah was made by our teacher the master Dov from Shepetovke in the year 5612." The year 5612 would be 1852 in the Gregorian calendar.
Plaque with the Yiddish words "Shepetovker shul - a makom kadosh" (a holy place). The location of this plaque is unknown. Source: Esther Chanie Dushinsky
Pin from Shepetovka
Source: the Miriam Weiner Archives
Envelope and stamps from letter sent from Shepetovka, courtesy of Lesley Kisner Cafarelli
David Kirzhner to Nathan Kisner, from Barb Greenberg collection, courtesy of Lesley Kisner Cafarelli
Certificate, herein the Teacher's Council of the Rovno Vocational School acknowledges that petty bourgeois class Kondratyuck Anna Ivanovna, who lived at site (shtetl) of Shepetovka, province of Volyn', Zaslavsky district, date of birth August 12, 1882, Orthodox Christian, has successfully passed the test in knowledge of the above mentioned school program.
Dated July 9, 1897
Signed by a Principal of the School (I. Radievich?)
Courtesy of Renee Hatt
Five ruble note from the Jewish community in Shepetovka, circa 1919. Source: The Miriam Weiner Archives.
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