Metadata: Ahavat Hesed Credit and Mutual Aid Society, Lwów
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. 498
- Title:
- Ahavat Hesed Credit and Mutual Aid Society, Lwów
- Title (official language):
- ТОВАРИСТВО КРЕДИТУ І ВЗАЄМОДОПОМОГИ «АГАВАТ ХЕСЕД», м. ЛЬВІВ
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ahavat Hesed Credit and Mutual Aid Society, Lwów
- Date(s):
- 1935/1936
- Language:
- Polish
- Extent:
- 5 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Housed in the fond are loan applications of members of the Ahavat Hesed Society (1935-36).
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The Ahavat Hesed (Hebrew for “Love of Charity”) Credit and Mutual Aid Society was officially established in Lwów in 1933 pursuant to the order of the voivodeship administration dated 30 September 1933 that approved the society’s charter. Its activities covered the territory of the Lwów, Stanisławów, and Tarnopol voivodeships. The society’s governing bodies were its general assembly (which convened once a year in January), main council (elected by the general assembly for a three-year term) and board (consisting of fifteen members, likewise elected for three years). The board consisted of the director, three deputy directors, a secretary, a treasurer, and their assistants; there was also an oversight commission and a comrades’ court. Members of the leadership of Ahavat Hesed included such well-known Zionist figures as the journalist Joel Spiegel and Dr. Meir Geier. The declared purpose of Ahavat Hesed was to provide assistance to the working Jewish intelligentsia in Galicia (in documents, referred to as Eastern Małopolska). The society’s main source of income was its members’ monthly dues (as of 1937, there were 250 members) and donations from Jewish organizations abroad.
The Ahavat Hesed Credit and Mutual Aid Society ceased activities in 1937.
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Debt
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory systematized chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary