Metadata: A Sheptytsky
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. 358
- Title:
- A Sheptytsky
- Title (official language):
- Шептицкий А.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Sheptytsky, Andrey
- Date(s):
- 1899/1944
- Language:
- Polish
- Latin
- Italian
- French
- Greek, Modern (1453-)
- German
- Ukrainian
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 1,248 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The documents in this fonds include letters from rabbis of Galicia to Metropolitan A Sheptytsky and materials pertaining to the religious and cultural life of the Jews of Galicia. In particular: a congratulatory letter, including a photo, from Chief Rabbi Yehuda Meyer Shapiro of the city of Przemyślany on the occasion of A Sheptytsky’s return from Russia (1917); a calling card of Rabbi Levi Freund; letters from the Lwów rabbis Yehezkel Levin and Levi Freund (1936); as well as letters from M Bukhin to A Sheptytsky about the organisation of a Judeo-Christian congregation in Lwów, and the draft charter thereof (1935-36), and letters from the Ewer bookstore in Warsaw about shipping the Encyclopedia Judaica (1929).
The fonds also contains a poem dedicated to Metropolitan A Sheptytsky (titled “A Blessing”) by a Hebrew teacher named Zvi-Eliezer Taller of the Baron Hirsch Foundation School in Pomorzany/Pomoriany (Złoczów county) (1904); a letter from Rabbi Hirsh Adler of the village of Pereginsko (Dolinskoe county) on the recuperation of twenty Jews at the sanatorium owned by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky in Podliuty (near the village of Osmoloda, in what is now the Rozhniativ district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine) (1914), and a poem by Asher Barash addressed to the metropolitan (undated).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Andrey Sheptytsky (1865-1944) was a count, metropolitan of Galicia, archbishop of Lwów and bishop of Kamieniec Podolski. He was the son of Count Jan and Countess Sofia of the Fredro/Szeptycki family. His baptismal name was Roman Aleksander Maria Sheptytsky. Upon graduating from secondary school [gimnaziia] he served in the military for some time, but was forced to withdraw due to illness. He studied at the law schools of the Universities of Krakow and Wrocław. He received the degree of doctor of the law in 1888 and that same year entered the Basilian monastery in the city of Dobromil, taking the monastic name of Andrey. He subsequently studied philosophy and theology in Krakow. Upon graduating, he received the degrees of doctor of theology and philosophy. In 1892, he was ordained as a priest in Przemyśl and in 1896 he became archimandrite of the Monastery of St. Onuphrius in Lemberg (Lwów/L’viv). In 1899, he was nominated by Emperor Franz-Joseph II to the position of bishop of Stanisławów (now Ivano-Frankivsk) and on 17 December 1900 he was made metropolitan of Galicia. In 1901, he founded a Studite monastery, of which his brother Casimir (Klymentiy) Sheptytsky was appointed archimandrite. In 1941, Andrey Sheptytsky initially welcomed the arrival of German forces in Lwów, but he soon became an opponent of the Nazi regime. Condemning the persecution of Jews, he submitted protests (December 1941, February 1942) to Heinrich Himmler against the extermination of the Jewish population in Galicia. With the metropolitan’s knowledge, a significant number of Jews were hidden in monasteries and at the metropolitan’s residence in Lemberg/Lwów. Among these were Rabbi David Kahane of the Sykstuska Street [the traditional name for what is now Вулиця Дорошенка] synagogue in Lemberg/Lwów, and the sons Kurt and Nathan of Rabbi Yehezkel Levin of the liberal temple in Lemberg/Lwów. On 21 November 1942, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky promulgated an epistle titled “Thou Shalt Not Kill,” which called for the reconciliation of political forces in Ukrainian society and condemned political assassinations. The World Holocaust Remembrance Centre Yad Vashem has not recognised Andrey Sheptytsky as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, but on 14 February 1995 it conferred this honorific on his brother Klymentiy Sheptytsky for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Adler, Hirsh
- Barash, Asher
- Bukhin, M
- Freund, Levi
- Levin, Yehezkel
- Shapiro, Yehuda Meyer
- Sheptytsky, Andrey
- Taller, Zvi-Eliezer
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises three series, which are arranged thematically and chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary