The Dzieduszyckis

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Львів

Scope and content:: Materials housed in the fond that pertain to Jewish history consist mainly of financial documents related to the management of the Dzieduszycki estates:

Op. 1 contains documents on a property dispute between Alfonsyna Dzieduszycka and Leisor and Leia Steinberg, who were tenants of the manorial farm in the village of Liachoviczi Zareczny (Żydaczów county) (1869-71); on a deal between Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki and the Lublin merchant Gerszon Rosenblatt regarding the sale of timber to be felled (1882); etc.

Op. 2 contains documents of the Miączyński family, including business letters, financial and property documents, files pertaining to financial disputes, etc., including: agreements with the Jews Szmul Josewicz and Szmul Michalewicz for their rental of taverns and other real estate in the villages of Błudów, Bubnów, and Desyatina (Gorochow/Horochów county) (1731); with Szmul Josewicz, for the rental of a mill, a tavern, and land in the village of Błudów (1735); files pertaining to a financial dispute between Adam and Józef Miączyński and the Jewish community of Bełz (1778-87); on property disputes between Ignacy Miączyński and the Jewish merchants A. Rozental and R. Frenkel (1809-11), and between Mateusz and Klementina Miączyński and the merchant Osija Horowitz (1843-49); etc.

Administrative/biographical history:: The Dzieduszyckis are an old gentry family of Ruthenian origin. Among its representatives were prominent statesmen, military men, officials, art patrons, and collectors. The fond contains documents of Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki (1825-99), a politician and public figure, deputy of the Galician Regional Diet, large landowner, prominent philanthropist, trustee and member of various societies, and collector of ethnographic and natural history materials that later formed the basis of Lwów/Lviv’s Museum of Natural History; the fond also contains documents of his wife Alfonsyna (nee Miączyńska; 1836-1919), their children, and grandchildren.

Also housed in the fond are materials of the Miączyński family, mainly related to the activities of Count Ignacy Miączyński (1767-1840), a royal chamberlain, captain, and state councilor, as well as his son Mateusz. These documents became part of the fond insofar as, until 1939, they were housed together with the documents of the Dzieduszycki family in their palace in Lwów, since Alfonsyna Dzieduszycka was the only heiress of Mateusz Miączyński.

The fond’s documents were split up in 1939, with some of them forming a collection in the Manuscripts Department of the Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv (see the description of f. 45).

Subject terms:: Financial records; Hospitality industry; Hospitality industry--Inns; Jewish community; Legal matters; Real estate; Trade and commerce

System of arrangement:: The fond includes two inventories systematized thematically.