Metadata: Collections of Letters of State, Public and Church Figures of Ukraine, Poland and Other Countries
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Львів
- Postal address:
- 3a Soborna sq., 79008 Lviv
- Phone number:
- +380 (32) 235-40-63
- Web address:
- https://archives.gov.ua/Eng/Archives/ca04.php
- Email:
- tsdial@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 132
- Title:
- Collections of Letters of State, Public and Church Figures of Ukraine, Poland and Other Countries
- Title (official language):
- КОЛЕКЦІЯ ЛИСТІВ, ДЕРЖАВНИХ, ГРОМАДСЬКИХ ТА ЦЕРКОВНИХ ДІЯЧІВ УКРАЇНИ, ПОЛЬЩІ ТА ІНШИХ КРАЇН
- Date(s):
- 1516/1888
- Language:
- Polish
- English
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Latin
- German
- Russian
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- French
- Extent:
- 1,234 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
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Documents from the 16th to 18th centuries in this collection that pertain to the history of Jews in Galicia include declarations to the Lwów Magistrate by the Polish Kings Sigismund II, Stephan Batory, Sigismund III, Władysław IV, Jan Kazimierz, and others, as well as by certain high dignitaries. These declarations affected the life of the city’s Jewish population, in particular, the rights and privileges of Jewish merchants who came to Lwów from Turkey in the mid-16th c.; restrictions on trade conducted by Jewish merchants with Jesuits in the early 17th c.; conflicts surrounding Lwów’s Nachmanowicz (Golden Rose) synagogue; anti-Jewish “disturbances” in Lwów perpetrated by Polish townspeople and students in 1641; pogroms in 1664 and 1688; and antisemitic outbursts in the 1730s.
The collection also contains complaints regarding Jewish communities and particular members thereof – “harassment” perpetrated by Jews, including of an economic nature, regarding disagreements over taxation and trade. In particular, a communique of the Poznań Magistrate from August 1690 cites examples of abuses committed by Jewish leaseholders of the crown tax.
In addition, materials of the collection – in particular, a November 1759 letter from Archdeacon Szczepan Mikulski to the Lwów Magistrate – provide information on such historical events as the siege of Lwów by the forces of Bohdan Khmel’nyts’kyi, and attempts to buy them off; the adoption of Christianity by Frankists, adherents of the mystical sect named for its founder, the messianic claimant Jacob Frank (1759); etc.
- Archival history:
- This collection was formed in 1868 by the city archivist K. Rasp in the process of organising the archives of the Lwów Magistrate; it consists of letters of state, Church, and public figures, hetmans of the Zaporizhian Host, deputies of the Polish Sejm, and other officials, representatives of the gentry, merchants, and townspeople. These materials reflect the sociopolitical and economic history of Lwów and the Polish state in the 16th to 19th centuries. When subsequently housed at the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine, the collection was supplemented with letters transferred from other fonds.
- Access points: locations:
- Lwów
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises a single inventory arranged by structure and chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
