Metadata: Dominican Monastery, 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. 418
- Title:
- Dominican Monastery, Lwów
- Title (official language):
- Монастир домініканців, м. Львів
- Creator/accumulator:
- Dominican Monastery, Lwów
- Date(s):
- 1545/1934
- Language:
- German
- Latin
- Polish
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 860 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Among the materials in this fonds is a file devoted entirely to the lengthy court cases associated with lawsuits brought by the Dominican monastery of Corpus Christi against the Jewish community of Lwów (1707-80) for the repayment of loans that the monastery regularly provided to local Jews. The same file also includes numerous materials pertaining to the Lwów monastery’s credit and debt relations with Jewish kahals of other cities: Żółkiew (Zhovkva/Zholkva), Brody, Tyśmienica, Czortków, Pinsk, etc.
Two other files contain directives and correspondence of the Lemberg/Lwów Area Administration concerning the residence of Jews in the monastery villages of Zarudce and Borki, as well as Żółtańce, Zavadov, Zaszków, and Kościejów for 1801-45. In particular, these materials pertain to complaints against Jews who resided in rural areas but employed Catholics to work the land, or who were generally engaged in trade (1822); allegations that Jews were getting rich at the expense of Catholic subjects (1822); a directive to millers in some localities forbidding them to allow Jews to settle at their mills, under penalty of a fine (1842, 1845); etc.
The fonds also includes files pertaining to lawsuits brought by the monastery against particular Jews for nonpayment of debts (late 18th to the first half of the 19th century), as well for offences committed in the course of their business activities: forest-clearing (1788-99), illegal sale of alcoholic beverages (1845), etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first mention of the Dominican Monastery and the Church of Corpus Christi (since 1991, after its transfer to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church: the Church of the Holy Eucharist) dates to the 1370s, when the Count Palatine of Hungary Vladislaus II of Opole (Władysław Opolczyk) transferred three villages (Krotoszyn, Zaszków, and Kościejów) and four homesteads in the village of Mierzwica to the Lwów monastery of the Dominican Order. Initially, the monastery operated as part of the missionary Brotherhood of Pilgrims for Christ among the Unbelievers; from 1456 it was subordinate to the Polish province of the Dominican Order (based in Krakow); and from 1612 it was the administrative centre of the Ruthenian province of the Dominican Order. In the 15th to 18th centuries the villages of Zarudce, Borki, Rokitno, Dawydow, Czerepin, Kupiatyn, and Żółtańce were donated to the monastery. The Lwów monastery continued to exist under Austrian rule, even as, under secularisation reform in Galicia, many Dominican monasteries were closed. In 1816, the monastery established a men’s secondary school. The monastery was closed by the Soviet authorities in 1946. Since 1972, the monastery building has housed the Museum of Religion and Atheism (now the Museum of the History of Religion).
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
