Metadata: Lwów Stauropegial Institute, Lwów
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine, Lviv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Львів
- Postal address:
- pl. Soborna, 3-а, 79008, L’viv
- Phone number:
- + 38 (032) 235-40-63
- Web address:
- tsdial.archіves.gov.ua
- Email:
- tsdial@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 129
- Title:
- Lwów Stauropegial Institute, Lwów
- Title (official language):
- Львівський ставропігійский інститут, м. Львів
- Creator/accumulator:
- Lwów Stauropegial Institute, Lwów
- Date(s):
- 1378/1944
- Language:
- Polish
- Yiddish
- Latin
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 3,418 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds includes a ruling (4 December 1584) of the Lwów Jewish Court awarding 140 books and typographical supplies to the Lwów Jew Izrail’ Iakubovich, given to him as collateral by the Russian printing pioneer Ivan Fedorov and his son Ivan, a bookbinder; an epistle of Lwów Bishop Gedeon Balaban (1569-1607) to the eparchy’s Orthodox population (18 November 1585) calling for donations so as to get Ivan Fedorov’s printing press back, and an epistle from Patriarch Jeremias of Constantinople calling for assistance to Lwów’s Assumption Brotherhood so that this same printing equipment could be bought back “from Jewish hands” (November 1589); and an epistle of Lwów Bishop Arsenii Zheliborskii (1618-62) forbidding Christians to work for Jews as domestic servants or patronise Jewish grocers (17 September 1653) – the epistle threatened violators with harsh punishments and eternal damnation.
Manuscripts of scholarly works in the fonds include notes by an unidentified author on the history of Lwów’s Jewish cemetery (“okopisko Żydowskie we Lwowie”), the text of which, judging by notes made in the margins, was meant to be part of a “Chronology of Lwów” (“do chronologii m. Lwowa”). The text of the notes includes extracts from Lwów castle books – several documents (in Latin and Old Polish) on the Jewish cemetery, known since 1480, as well as on the financial and “labour” taxes to which the Jewish population of Lwów was subject (1480, 1563, 1622).
There are also files on contracts between the Stauropegial Brotherhood and Jewish printers and typesetters from Żółkiew (Zhovkva/Zholkva) for the production of fonts and the delivery of paper from Wrocław (first half of the 18th century); on lawsuits between the brotherhood and the Jew Moshk Brodskii and his heirs regarding property disputes (latter half of the 18th – early 19th century); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Lwów Stauropegial Institute was established in 1793 on the basis of the Stauropegial Brotherhood of Lwów’s Church of the Assumption; the brotherhood began its existence in the mid-16th century (according to some sources, the 15th century). In 1592, Patriarch Jeremias II Tranos of Constantinople granted it the right of stauropegia, i.e., ecclesiastical autonomy, making it directly subordinate to the patriarch of Constantinople. The Assumption Brotherhood was a centre of religious, social, and cultural life in Lwów and the region, running printing presses, schools, and hospitals and providing material assistance to the Ukrainian population. Originally it was founded for the purpose of defending Eastern Orthodoxy; in 1708, however, it was transferred to the Uniate Church, and in 1788, shortly after the annexation of Galicia to the Austrian Empire, it was abolished. In 1793, it was replaced by the newly established Stauropegial Institute, whose range of activities would be far narrower than that of the brotherhood, and limited to typography, management of the bursa [religious school / seminary dormitory], and custodianship of the church. Over the course of the 19th century, pro-Russian tendencies began to predominate at the Stauropegial Institute, facilitated in particular by its personnel’s conservative worldview, their orientation toward the Russian past (and corresponding rejection of the increasingly popular Ukrainophile ideology and Ukrainian language) and their close ties with Russian cultural figures and scholars, as well as the financial assistance they received from Russia. In 1940, the institute was closed by the Soviet authorities, but some of its structures partially resumed activities during the German occupation of the city (1941-44).
- Access points: persons/families:
- Brodskii, Moshk
- Iakubovich, Izrail’
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises four series, which are arranged mainly according to the subject-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
