Metadata: The Radzimińskis
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv. Manuscripts Department
- Holding institution (official language):
- Львівська національна наукова бібліотека України імені В. Стефаника. Bідділ рукописів
- Postal address:
- Stefanyka St. 2, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- +38 (032) 236-80-28
- Email:
- manuscr@lsl.lviv.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 45
- Title:
- The Radzimińskis
- Title (official language):
- РАДЗИМІНСЬКІ
- Creator/accumulator:
- The Radzimińskis
- Date(s):
- 1500/1900
- Language:
- Latin
- Polish
- French
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 570 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
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The fond contains particular files and file fragments that pertain to Jewish history and culture – excerpts from and copies of court rulings, legal documents, proclamations, etc., that contain information on the life of Jews, both individuals and kahals, in particular, in the file headed “Miscellaneous: private and public documents of 1625-1831, including court rulings, accounting notes, border records, proclamations, and political documents,” etc. Documents of this kind may be provisionally divided into the following thematic groups:
1) Information on the activities of the kahals of various population centers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in particular, headings lists of rulings of Lublin’s Council of Four Lands (Hebrew: Va‘ad arba‘ aratsot) governing various aspects of relations between the kahals of the towns of Siemiatycze, Busk, Rozvadov, etc., including material on a petition by the Jewish community of Sarnak requesting that it be transferred from the jurisdiction of the Siemiatycze kahal to that of Tihoczin (1753-58); a report on the relationship between the Polish militia and the kahal in Wiszniowiec (1789); a statement by a cornet (chorąży, a military officer) stating that, during the suppression of peasant unrest, he (and the troops in his command) “did no harm in the Wiszniowiec lands” – the statement is also affirmed by the signatures of representatives of the local Jewish community (1789); a copy of a statement by the Lutsk Municipal Court regarding the Ostrog kahal’s violation of previous agreements on the payment of fines, as well as an extract about a fire at the local synagogue, and a pogrom against Jews (1790); etc.
2) Documents on the tax policy of the Polish authorities vis-à-vis Jews and their economic and commercial activities, including extracts from court cases containing allegations to the effect that Jews in cities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were not paying taxes, which other townspeople were forced to pay instead (1626); and a statement to the effect that unjust taxes were being levied on Jews (1626). There are also inventories and descriptions of population centers in the Commonwealth that mention Jews, their occupations and property, in particular, a Jewish-owned tavern in the village of Fedorówka (1754); a receipt for financial obligations issued by M. Yakubovich to A. Hershkovich (1774); extracts from the “Lutsk Castle Archive” that contain references to business correspondence between Jews and Christians in Korzec (1779); etc.
3) Materials pertaining to the religious and personal life of Jews, including a circular on regulations for Jewish marriages (1786); a certificate issued to a Jew named L. Krizhanvsky attesting that he had converted to Christianity in 1828 and was henceforth a member of a Catholic parish (1831); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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A Polish gentry family. Among its prominent representatives was Zygmunt Feliks Radzimiński-Luba (1843-1928), a public figure and historian specializing in genealogy, heraldry, and archaeology. In 1859 he enrolled at Kiev University, first studying in the physics and mathematics department, then the law school. In 1862, he interrupted his studies and settled on his estate in the village of Zavadnicy. In 1876, he was elected Ostrog county deputy of the Volhynia Nobles’ Assembly in Zhitomir (Zhytomyr, Żytomierz) from the Ostrog district. In 1878, he became an honorary justice of the peace of the Kremenets area, and in 1879, chair of the Kremenets Congresses of Justices of the Peace. He was a corresponding member of the Moscow Archaeological Society (from 1878 on), and a member of several commissions of the Polish Academy of Arts (1878-83), Kiev’s Nestor the Chronicler Historical Society (from 1879 on), the Genealogical Academy in Pisa (from 1880 on), the Historical Society in St. Petersburg (from 1893 on), etc. He was one of the persons involved in establishing (1908) Lemberg/Lwów’s Heraldic Society and served as its president from 1911 on. The main topic of his research was the history of Volhynia in the 14th to 17th c. The height of Radzimiński-Luba’s scholarly activity came with his involvement in the compilation of the well-known document collection “Archive of the Princes Sanguszko-Lubartowicz in Sławuta [Slavuta]” (Polish: Archiwum książąt Łubartowiczów-Sanguszków w Sławucie; in seven volumes (Lemberg/Lwów, 1887-1910).
The Radzimiński archive (Polish: Archiwum Radzimińskich), partially organized by Zygmunt Feliks Radzimiński-Luba, was transferred to Lwów’s Ossolineum after the First World War. In the interwar period, the prominent legal historian P. B. Dąbkowski worked on describing it; in 1919 he published a pamphlet on the archive that became the basis of the Ossolineum’s current inventory of it. The archive contains original documents and copies, in particular, of court rulings, legal documents, complaints, inventories, and similar materials, mainly from Volhynia, as well as personal documents of Zygmunt Feliks Radzimiński-Luba himself.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory systematized thematically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary