Metadata: Lwów Municipal Administration, Lwów (Lwów Voivodeship)
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Lviv Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний Архів Львівської області
- Postal address:
- ul. Pidvalna 13, 79008, L’viv
- Phone number:
- +38 (032) 235-47-22
- Email:
- archive_lviv@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 2
- Title:
- Lwów Municipal Administration, Lwów (Lwów Voivodeship)
- Title (official language):
- Львівське міське управління, м. Львів Львівського воєводства
- Creator/accumulator:
- Lwów Municipal Administration
- Date(s):
- 1918/1939
- Language:
- Polish
- Extent:
- 74,376 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The documents in this fonds include a circular of the Lwów Voivodeship Administration that describes an order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on how the Versailles Treaty’s national minorities section was to be interpreted (1924) (no. 23).
The fonds also contains documents on the activities of the Jewish community: correspondence of the Lwów Municipal Administration with the board of the Lwów Jewish religious community on enlisting able-bodied men to perform compulsory labour under martial law (1919) (no. 27); with the Lwów Voivodeship Administration on amending the community’s charter (1925-26) (no. 33); correspondence of the Lwów Municipal Administration with the Jewish community of Lwów on the opening of a pharmacy at the “Lazarus Jewish Hospital” [named after Maurice Lazarus, the Jewish entrepreneur who financed its construction; it was also known as the Szpital izraelicki. Officially, it was called the Hospital of the Jewish Religious Community of Lwów. This monumental building now houses a maternity hospital] (1926-28) (no. 28); draft budgets of the Lwów Jewish community, and reports on fulfilment thereof (1929-35) (no. 23); etc.
There is a significant number of documents pertaining to the activities of Jewish public and philanthropic organisations, including: bylaws of the Lwów Society to Benefit Jewish Children’s Shelters (1914) (no. 23); materials on the interwar activities of Lwów’s Gersh Gruder, Solomon Sprecher, and Miriam and Abram Barda charitable foundations (no. 33); membership logs of Lwów branches of charitable foundations of various confessions (1936-37), and an alphabetical index to same (1924) (no. 22); a list of members of the Jewish Arts and Literature Society in Lwów (1929) (no. 23); correspondence of the Lwów Magistrate with the board of the Jewish People’s Library in Lwów on granting the latter a waiver of fees for the holding of paid events (dance and theatre evenings, etc.) in cases in which they were held for charity (1919-20) (no. 23); etc.
A number of files pertain to the history of the construction of buildings of Jewish community institutions, educational institutions and public organisations. Among them are construction oversight documents of the municipal government in Lwów, including applications from construction companies and landowner, and rulings of the technical department of the Lwów Municipal Administration (Magistrate) granting permits for the construction of new buildings and the repair and remodelling of existing ones, including administrative buildings of the Lwów Jewish community (no. 3), the “Lazarus Hospital” and nursing home of the Lwów Jewish community (no. 1), the secondary school of the Jewish Primary and Secondary Education Society in Lwów (no. 1), and the Yad Charutzim [Skillful Hand] Jewish Craftsmen’s Society (no. 3); plans for the construction, remodelling and repair of buildings of the Jewish religious community of Lwów and the Lwów Jewish Commercial Secondary School (1932-33, 1937-38) (no. 41); etc.; applications submitted by the Lwów Society to Benefit Jewish Children’s Shelters and the Jewish gymnastics society Dror in Lwów, correspondence of the Lwów Magistrate’s presidium with the boards of these societies and the magistrate’s technical department and excerpts from minutes of meetings of the Lwów Municipal Council regarding the gratis allocation of land for the construction of a new shelter and a gym (1924-31) (no. 23).
Financial documents include files on the search for persons in arrears and correspondence of the Lwów Magistrate with the magistrates of Vienna, Kołomyja, Rawa Ruska, Czerniowce, and other cities on determining their whereabouts and on collecting tax arrears on behalf of the Jewish religious community of Lwów (1928-30); notifications of the Lwów Municipal Administration regarding entries in the mortgage log for tax arrears of the Ha-meltsor ha-Israel society, the Mitsyion Tetse Tora (acronym: Mitet) Jewish school, and the Yad Charutzim Jewish Craftsmen’s Society in Lwów (1929-33) (no. 23); etc.
There are also files from the 1920s-30s relating to Lwów Jews’ petitions for amendments to their birth certificate records (no. 33); files on the issue of permits to open private Jewish schools and cheders in Lwów (1919-27) and on a dispute between the Lwów Jewish community and the Or Hayosher Meforshey Hayom society regarding ownership of the Sieniawska Street synagogue in Lwów (1919-27) (no. 33); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Prior to the Polish Parliament’s adoption on 23 March 1933 of the “Law to partially alter the structure of territorial government,” which unified the system of local government in all regions formerly belonging to the Austro-Hungarian, German and Russian Empires, municipal government in Galicia continued to operate according to Austrian law. The executive and controlling body of city government remained the magistrate (renamed the municipal administration in 1933). The municipal administrations of Drohobycz, Lwów, and Stryj were headed by a president, of Żółkiew and Sambor by a burgomaster. Municipal administrations were in charge of finances and, in particular, the city budget and collection of local taxes, public services and sanitation, urban planning and construction, road maintenance, plumbing and sewerage, public health and public education and keeping city statistics. They also enforced regulations pertaining to commerce, traffic, fire safety, etc. They were abolished in 1939.
- Access points: locations:
- Lwów
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Art
- Children
- Correspondence
- Education
- Education--Cheders
- Education--Schools and universities
- Elderly
- Financial records
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Hospitals
- Jewish community
- Libraries
- Literature
- Professions
- Professions--Crafts
- Sports
- Sports--Sports clubs
- Synagogues
- Vital records
- Vital records--Birth records
- System of arrangement:
- The series in this fonds are arranged according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary