Metadata: Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office in 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. 156
- Title:
- Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office in Lemberg/Lwów
- Title (official language):
- Вища державна прокуратура у Львові
- Creator/accumulator:
- Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office in Lviv
- Date(s):
- 1842/1919
- Language:
- German
- Polish
- Extent:
- 2,094 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Documents in this fonds that pertain to Jewish history (nos. 1-2) include material on gathering information on and investigating inter-ethnic conflicts, in particular, on the case of a Tarnopol resident named V. Gikave who had been involved in anti-Jewish rioting in 1882-83; correspondence about a candidate for the bar from Kołomyja who was suspected of anti-Jewish incitement (1890); and materials about anti-Jewish rioting that took place in that city in 1892; materials on violations of censorship laws, including a case involving the prosecution of the editor of the Jewish newspaper Mahzike Hadas (published in Lemberg in 1879-85 and 1886-1914; the press organ of the Orthodox Jewish organisation of the same name) – in 1883, the newspaper published a herem (anathema, censure) against Jews who vote for secular Jewish candidates in elections for Jewish community councils and representative bodies (publication of this herem, drawn up on behalf of over 300 rabbis, led to the confiscation of the newspaper’s print-run and the prosecution of its editor Shmuel Riess); correspondence, reports, and other materials related to the practice by which the Jewish communities of Galicia and Bukovina would collect an annual levy to go toward maintaining Jewish clergymen at the Lemberg prison (some of these files include bylaws of Jewish communities, member and taxpayer lists, etc. – no. 1 and the supplemental no.).
The fonds also includes (primarily in no. 1 and supplemental no.) files pertaining to disciplinary prosecutions of lawyers and notaries (Jews and non-Jews) accused of violations of official procedures, bribery, etc.; materials on the hearing of complaints of abuse of authority by court employees (in particular, a case of 1889-90 in which a prisoner named Isaac Raufman accused prison guards of abusing their authority); files pertaining to cases of various crimes committed by or against Jews: cases in which persons were charged with helping Jews to evade service in the Austro-Hungarian Army (1871-73), forging passports (1877-80), committing robberies; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office in Lemberg (Lwów) was established by decree of the Austrian Ministry of Justice on 29 June 1855 and began operations in September of the same year in the jurisdiction of the Provincial High Court in Lemberg, which included both Eastern Galicia and Bukovina. It was headed by a senior prosecutor. The prosecutor’s office was to investigate all criminal cases, including those of a political nature; oversee operations of the prosecutorial offices of lower courts; and provide disciplinary oversight of and prosecute criminal cases against judges, notaries, and lawyers. From 1865, the Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office also had oversight of prison facilities. It was abolished in 1918.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Raufman, Isaac
- Riess, Shmuel
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises three series, which are arranged mostly chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
