Metadata: Provincial School Council, 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. 178
- Title:
- Provincial School Council, Lemberg/Lwów
- Title (official language):
- Крайовашкільна рада, м. Львів
- Creator/accumulator:
- Provincial School Council, Lviv
- Date(s):
- 1797/1939
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- Extent:
- 13,814 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Materials in this fonds that pertain to the history of Jews in this region (nos. 1-4) may be provisionally divided into the following subject groups.
1) Audit reports and other administrative information on the operations of primary Jewish educational institutions (including schools established with the involvement of the Baron Moritz (Zvi) von Hirsch [Maurice de Hirsch] Foundation) in Bolechów, Brody, Lemberg/Lwów, Rawa Ruska, Tarnów, Tarnopol, Jabłonów, and other localities (op 2; 1860-1911); lists of educational institutions; data on teachers and students, and on bylaws, budgets and funding, curricula, school buildings, etc.; various materials on Jewish secondary and vocational schools, including bylaws, administrative documents, and correspondence of the Jewish Industrial School in Lemberg/Lwów, the Jewish cobbling school in Kołomyja, Jewish commercial schools in Brody, Lemberg/Lwów, Sambor, Stanisławów, Tarnopol, etc. (nos. 4, 1886-1918).
2) Materials on the “regulation” of the status of cheders (traditional Jewish elementary schools), including data on their number and status, lists of persons running them in various localities, etc. (no. 2, 1868-81). Files from the early 1870s contain lists of directors of cheders in Niemirów and Rawa Ruska who were in violation of the ban on conducting classes imposed due to the cholera epidemic. There are also materials on the prosecution of parents who refused to send their children to Jewish elementary schools in Lemberg (no. 2, 1890s), as well as information about the history of Jewish education in this city from 1843-1906 (no. 2, 1906).
3) Lists of teachers of Jewish educational institutions, questionnaires, personal files, and other information of a biographical nature, including correspondence about individual applicants for teaching positions (no. 1, 1873; no. 2, late 19th-early 20th century); materials on the appointment of instructors to teach courses on Judaism at non-Jewish schools that had Jewish pupils (including correspondence with Jewish community organisations about their remuneration; nos. 1 and 2, early 20th century); and on employment among teachers, particularly after the loss of jobs as a result of hostilities during the First World War (no. 1, 1914-18); and on the establishment of a school (seminary) in Lemberg/Lwów to train teachers of the Jewish religion (no. 1, 2, late 19th-early 20th century).
4) Information on activities of a political nature among Jewish students, including the dissemination of socialist newspapers in secondary schools of Lemberg and Krakow (no. 3, 1880); information on the existence of underground Zionist and socialist circles in Lemberg and on legal sanctions against persons found to be involved in them (no. 3, 1903, 1907); on the same kinds of circles – Hashomer Hatzair, the “Student Council,” etc. – discovered at the Czortków secondary school [gymnasium] (no. 3, 1919); and on tensions between Polish and Jewish pupils of secondary schools in the city of Przemyśl, in connection with the accusation levelled against the latter that they participated in a Jewish militia and were unwilling to help defend the city (alongside the Polish Army) from Ukrainian forces (ibid, 1919).
There are also materials on the review of books and textbooks on Jewish subjects, such as David Rosenman’s The Bible for Students of Secondary and Special Schools (no. 1., 1920-21); and on the removal of mentions of the Russian emperor from prayer books published in Russia and their replacement with prayers “for the health of the emperor of Austria” (no. 1., 1915).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Provincial School Council of Lemberg (Lwów) was established in 1867 on the basis of the school section of the fifth department of the Viceroyalty of Galicia as the main agency to manage and monitor primary and secondary schools as well as professional educational institutions. It answered to the Ministry of Education and Religion of Austria-Hungary. It remained in operation until the establishment of the Curatorium (Board of Trustees) of the Lwów School District in 1921 (see the description of f. 179).
- Subject terms:
- Censorship
- Correspondence
- Education
- Education--Cheders
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Students
- Education--Teachers and professors
- Education--Vocational training
- Financial matters
- Financial records
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Diseases
- Historical research
- Legal matters
- Personal records
- Prayer books
- Socialism
- Statistics
- World War I
- Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises five series, arranged according to the structural-chronological principle. No. 5 contains reference materials on documents of the school council and of the school department of the Galician Government and Viceroyalty.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary