Appeal to Shmuel Fuliovitsh from Jews of Vinnitsa not to transfer the wine industry to another locale.

(RUSSIA).

Vinnitsa (Ukraine)

1802

Russian Manuscript on paper, followed by three pages with 107 individual Hebrew signatures in Aschkenazic cursive scripts. Imperial Russian stamp at top.

The Jews of Vinnitsa here petition their co-religionist Shmuel Fuliovitsch, not to be the cause of their unemployment by moving his wine-production facility to another town. Vinnitsa was a significant Jewish center in Podolia, Western Ukraine, in which “most of the important distilleries (an ancient industry, to which the town owes its name) were owned by Jews." See JE, Vol. XII, p.440. For a related manuscript concerning Jewish involvement with the wine industry in Vinnitsa, see Kestenbaum Auction 50, Lot 259