Metadata: Archive of Ancient Official Documents, Lemberg/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:
- archives.gov.ua/Eng/Archives/ca04.php
- Email:
- tsdial@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 55
- Title:
- Archive of Ancient Official Documents, Lemberg/Lwów
- Title (official language):
- Архів давніх актів м. Львова
- Date(s):
- 1891/1939
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- Latin
- Extent:
- 292 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains correspondence between the Jewish communities of Krakow and Lemberg/Lwów and the magistrates of these cities regarding requests of the former for permission to use images of the cities’ coats of arms in their seals; these materials include a letter from the director of the Krakow Archive to the Krakow Magistrate to the effect that there was no ground to grant the Jewish community’s request (1912).
The fonds also contains draft notes and archival excerpts made by an unknown author regarding features of the production and use of Jewish religious items (tallises, tzitzit, tefillin, etc.) in cities and towns of Galicia (latter half of the 19th century). The notes mention the tallis works of Lazar Hulvirt and Isaac Bart in Lemberg and of Samson Geller in Kołomyja, and the manufacture of tzitzit in the town of Borshiv, of tefillin in Tyśmienica (Tysmenytsia), and of black sashes (gartls) in the cities of Kolomyia and Sniatyn.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The archive of the city of Lviv dates to the 13th century and was first organised simultaneously with the foundation of the city (the documents were housed in a chancery on the premises of the city hall). The archive contained privileges issued to the city by kings and palatines, documents of the municipal government (judicial-administrative and financial logs), documents of guilds and, to some extent, personal documents of the city’s patrician families.
In 1891, the Lemberg Magistrate reorganised the city archive and gave it the title of the Archive of Ancient Official Documents of the City of Lemberg. It was considered a separate department of the magistrate and was subordinate to the municipal presidium (in Ukrainian, the presidia mista). This institution’s first permanent archivist was Aleksander Czołowski (1865-1944), who later served as its director (1906-37).
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bart, Isaac
- Geller, Samson
- Hulvirt, Lazar
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged according to the thematic-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary