Metadata: Rudki County Starostwo, Rudki, 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. 1065
- Title:
- Rudki County Starostwo, Rudki, Lwów Voivodeship
- Title (official language):
- Рудківське повітове староство, м. Рудки Львівського воєводства
- Creator/accumulator:
- Rudki County Starostwo
- Date(s):
- 1919/1939
- Language:
- Polish
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 265 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. instructions of the Lwów Voivodeship Administration and correspondence of the Rudki county starostwo with heads (sołtysi) of territorial gminy directing that samples of seals and signatures of the heads of institutions and organisations be provided, including those of the chairs of Jewish communities; and that an accounting be made of land under cultivation either owned or rented by Jews (1926); etc.
Numerous documents shed light on the life and workings of Jewish communities in various localities of the Lwów voivodeship: lists of payers of the mandatory annual taxes that went toward the budgets of the communities of the cities of Komarno and Rudki (Rudki county) (no. 1, 1933-36); etc.
A considerable number of records of the county starostwa include correspondence with Jewish community structures: materials of the Rudki county starostwo include correspondence with the Lwów Voivodeship Administration regarding a complaint submitted by Jews of Komarno to the Polish Sejm regarding what was claimed to be a faulty census (no. 1, 1921); and materials on operations of the municipal community of Komarno (1934-36); 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.
- 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
