Universal of August Czartoryski, voivode of Ruthenia, appointing Chaim Symchowicz as the rabbi of Lviv and as the general land rabbi of Ruthenia

August Czartoryski, Ruthenian voivode and general starost, confirms Chaim Symchowicz in the office of the rabbi of Lviv and gives him the Ruthenian land rabbinate for three years, equipping him with judicial powers over Lviv and Lviv poviat Jews and freeing him from paying debts and taxes required of the Lviv kahal.
Archive: Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv
Fond: Acta terrestria Lwoviensia (Fond 10)
Reference Number: CGIA Lwów, Fond 10, op. 1, sp. 142, p. 78-81
Language: Polish
Creation Date: 30.05.1763
Place of origin: Puławy
Geographical names: Lviv (Lwów), Pulawy
Notes:

Tyt.: Instrumenti per Celsissimum Principem Czartoryski super munus rabinate [s] civitatis Leopolienisis infideli Chaim Szymchowicz collati
oblata. Do oblaty w księdze sądu kapturowego województwa ruskiego, ziemi lwowskiej i powiatu żydaczowskiego podał 5 IV 1764 Michał Dzieliński.

Published: Żydowski samorząd ziemski w Koronie (XVII -XVIII wiek). Źródła, wstęp i oprac. A. Kaźmierczyk, P. Zarubin, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2019, pp. 260, 261.