Editor: Warren Blatt.
Publication was suspended after vol. 8 no. 2 (spring 2004).
The Kielce-Radom Special Interest Group (SIG) is a cooperative research group for the Jewish population of southern Russian Poland, called Kielce and Radom. For further information, see their web site.
The Kielce and Radom gubernias were two of ten gubernias (provinces) of the Kingdom of Poland or Russian Poland, existing from 1867-1917. The area was previously known as the Cracow and Sandomierz palatinates of Poland 1795, and became West Galicia. In 1844, the familiar names of Kraków and Sandomierz wojewodztwa (1815-1844) were re-introduced, which became Radom gubernia. In 1867, Radom gubernia was split into Radom and Kielce gubernias. Their borders remained in place until World War I. The seven districts (Polish powiat, Russian uezd) of Kielce gubernia 1867-1917 were: Jedrzejów, Kielce, Miechów, Olkusz, Pinczów, Stopnica, and Wloszczowa. The seven districts of Radom gubernia 1867-1917 were: Ilza, Konskie, Kozienice, Opatów, Opoczno, Radom, and Sandomierz. Numerous Jewish residence bans were enacted throughout Kielce's history, from its first ban in 1535 until 1868, when the Kielce Jewish community and cemetery were established. In 1897, Kielce gubernia had a Jewish population of 83,200, and Radom gubernia had 112,630 Jews. This journal includes articles for genealogical research throughout Russian Poland, such as Cyrillic index transliterations from LDS microfilms and extracted vital records, population figures for each town, maps, surnames, occupations, births, marriage, deaths, other vital record extracts from ca. 1795 to present, SIG activities, projects, and initiatives, descriptions of each article's content are found in their web site.
Indexed in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) under POKR.
For more information, see the web site: [
www.jewishgen.org] (last viewed 8 Dec 2005).
