Metadata: Lwów County Starostwo, 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. 7
- Title:
- Lwów County Starostwo, Lwów, Lwów Voivodeship
- Title (official language):
- Львівське повітове староство, м. Львів Львівського воєводства
- Creator/accumulator:
- Lwów County Starostwo
- Date(s):
- 1919/1939
- Language:
- Polish
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 9,825 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains directives of the Lwów Voivodeship Administration governing activities of Jewish religious communities (gminy), as well as Jewish public associations and organisations. Among these materials are orders of the Lwów Voivodeship Administration on procedures for drawing up Jewish community budgets (1931); stipulating that county starostwa monitor the activities of Jewish communities; and that Jews who emigrate to the USSR be stripped of their Polish citizenship (1934); etc.
Numerous documents shed light on the life and workings of Jewish communities in various localities of the Lwów voivodeship: files pertaining to elections of the boards of Jewish religious communities in the cities of Sambor (1928), Szczerzec, Nawaria, and Jaryczów Nowy (1921-26, 1935-37), and to the election of the Jaryczów Nowy community rabbi (no. 1); to filling the vacancy of the head of the Jewish vital records department in Winniki (no. 1, 1927, 1932-33); ratification of the budgets of the Jewish communities of the cities of Sambor for 1924 and 1936 and Nawaria for 1935 (no. 1), Szczerzec for 1936–37 (no. 3); etc. (with budgets or drafts thereof appended); financial operations of the board of the Jewish community of Jaryczów Nowy (no. 1); lists of payers of the mandatory annual taxes that went toward the budgets of the communities of the cities of Winniki, Nawaria, Jaryczów Nowy, and Szczerzec (Lwów county) (no. 3, 1935).
The fonds also includes bylaws and founding documents of Jewish sociopolitical, religious, philanthropic, cultural, and educational organisations and societies, including correspondence with the Lwów county starostwo on constituent assemblies and elections of the boards of Ahdut (Brzuchowice), Brit Trumpeldor (Brzuchowice), Agudas Israel (Jaryczów Nowy), the H. Herzog Talmud-Torah, and Gmilas Hesed (Winniki), Doresh Letsion, Tarbut, Oyse Hesed, and Merkaz Ruhani (Jaryczów Nowy), Ahava, Ha-Tsofim Brit Trumpeldor, and Linas Ha-Tsedek (Szczerzec) (no. 2, 1922-38).
A number of documents pertain to the involvement of Jews in social, political, cultural, educational, and philanthropic activities. These include an application by the Jewish scouts organisation Brit Trumpeldor in the town of Szczerzec (dated 5 October 1934) requesting permission to stage S. Ansky’s play The Dybbuk; and an application submitted by the Agudas Israel organisation in Jaryczów Nowy (13 November 1934) requesting permission to stage a one-act play titled Hannah and her Seven Sons (based on the story set forth in books II and IV of the Maccabees); an application by the Jewish community of Jaryczów Nowy (6 December 1934) requesting a permit to hold a dance to raise funds for indigent Jewish families (file 416).
There are also declarations by Jews stating that they renounced the Jewish religion and wished to be baptised according to the Catholic rite (1928, 1935); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- County starostwa were established in Galicia upon its annexation to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but continued to function unaltered after its collapse and the revival of independent Poland. The decree of the president of Poland “On the organisation and operations of general-administrative agencies” (19 January 1928) redefined the competence and functions of county starostwa. Thus, per an order of the minister of internal affairs issued pursuant to this presidential decree, “On the internal organisation and operations of county starostwa” (30 June 1930), these were recognised as the supreme governing bodies of counties, each headed by a starosta appointed by the minister of internal affairs and vested with broad powers to manage local administrative and state police agencies. Consisting of several structural subdivisions (referaty), the starostwa oversaw public order in their respective counties, and monitored the activities of the media and of political, religious, cultural, charitable, and other organisations and associations; and had oversight of financial allocations, construction, commerce, agriculture, etc. The county starostwa in turn answered to their respective voivodeship administrations. They were abolished in September 1939.
- Access points: locations:
- Brzuchowice
- Jaryczów Nowy
- Lwów
- Nawaria
- Sambor
- Szczerzec
- Winniki
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Citizenship
- Conversion to Christianity
- Correspondence
- Education
- Financial matters
- Financial records
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Jewish political activity
- Law enforcement
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Rabbis
- Taxation
- Theatre
- Vital 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