Metadata: Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Society, Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv
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; +380 (32) 235-56-57
- Web address:
- https://archives.gov.ua/Eng/Archives/ca04.php
- Email:
- tsdial@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 309
- Title:
- Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Society, Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv
- Title (official language):
- НАУКОВО ТОВАРИСТВО ІМ. ШЕВЧЕНКА, м. ЛЬВІВ
- Creator/accumulator:
- Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Society, Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv
- Date(s):
- 1757/1946
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Polish
- French
- English
- Czech
- Russian
- German
- Extent:
- 3,143 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Housed in op. 1 are certain documents pertaining to Jewish history, including the following manuscript materials: a report by H. Drachenok titled “The Jewish Question in Ukraine” (1926); a story by Peter Rosegger titled “The Jewish Tree”; articles by unidentified authors titled “The Jewish Question and the Anti-Jewish Movement in Russia in 1881-82” and “Awaken Israel.” There is also a record card for honorary Shevchenko Scholarly Society member Albert Einstein (1937); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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This organization was established in Lwów in 1873 as the T. G. Shevchenko Literary-Scholarly Society. Its charter was approved by the Galician viceroyalty on 11 December 1873. In November 1892, it was reorganized as the Shevchenko Scholarly Society (Ukrainian: Naukovo tovaristvo im. Shevchenka; abbrev. NTSh) and began to play the role of an unofficial Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The society brought together scholars of various profiles and had three sections: history and philosophy; philology; and mathematics, medicine, and natural sciences. In order to address particular research issues, the sections formed commissions: the archaeographic, bibliographic, statistical, ethnographic, philological, etc. commissions. Findings of the commissions were approved by the section boards. The structure of the Shevchenko Scholarly Society also included a library, museums, a bibliographic bureau, a printing house, a bindery, and a bookstore. Members of the society included prominent representatives of Ukrainian scholarship and literature: Ivan Franko, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Filaret Kolessa, Ivan Krypyakevich, Kirill Studinsky, I. Sventsitsky, as well as scientists of world renown like Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and others.
The Shevchenko Scholarly Society ceased activities in 1939 after the Soviet annexation of Western Ukraine. Certain of the society’s sections were in operation during the Nazi occupation of the city in 1941-44. After 1945, the Shevchenko Scholarly Society was in operation in exile in Germany, France, Australia, and the US. Its resumed activities in Lviv in 1991.
- Access points: locations:
- Lwów
- Subject terms:
- Jewish Question
- Manuscripts
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes two inventories systematized thematically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary