Metadata: Collection of Leaflets and Posters
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
- Title:
- Collection of Leaflets and Posters
- Title (official language):
- Колекція листівок і афіш
- Creator/accumulator:
- Lemberg/Lwów Municipal Archive
- Date(s):
- 1813/1944
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- Yiddish
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 17,000 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains a significant volume of materials pertaining to Jewish history and culture, which may be provisionally divided into the following thematic groups:
1) A set of materials reflecting the religious and social life of the Jewish population of Galicia and Bukovina during the periods of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Polish Republic, including printed announcements of the Jewish community of Lemberg/Lwów regarding pre-election speeches by Rabbis I. Natanson and B. Levenshtein in the local synagogue (1865); and on a Purim celebration (undated); an announcement of Lwów’s progressive synagogue on the sale of tickets for Rosh Hashanah services (1915); an announcement on the sale of matzah for the Passover holiday (Czerniowce; undated); texts of speeches by rabbis of Lwów (1915); a directive of the board of the Jewish community of Lwów barring private Jewish houses of worship without prior special permission (1915); a notification of the Lwów Magistrate on procedures for obtaining a permit to open a cheder (Lwów, 1890); appeals by various state institutions and Jewish public organisations, in particular, a fundraising request by the Committee to Aid Victims of the Pogrom against Jews in Żytomierz (Zhytomyr) for assistance to victims [1905]; a membership appeal by the board of the Society for the Bernard Goldman Public School (Polish: Szkoly Ludowej im. Bernarda Goldmana) (Lwów, 1906); an appeal by the Association of Student Youth of Jewish Origin “Zjednoczenie” (Polish for “Union”) calling on fellow Jews to join the Polish Army and engage in armed struggle for the independence of Poland [Warsaw, 1914]; and by the Executive Committee of Members of the United Associations likewise calling on Jews to join the Polish Army and fight together against tsarism and for the independence of Poland (Lwów, [1914]); an appeal by the state-appointed commissioner of the Jewish community of Lwów E. Parnas to the Jewish population promoting the purchase of war bond no. 5 (1916); a statement by the Jewish Committee of Public Safety calling on the Jewish population of Lwów to maintain neutrality and not engage in battles (1918); announcements on the organising in the city and county of Stanisławów of the Provisional Jewish People’s Council, the opening of two Jewish schools in Stanisławów, etc. (1918); an announcement of the publication of the new Jewish newspaper Folksblat in Lwów, beginning 5 January 1919; an appeal by the Jewish Committee to the Jewish population regarding the labour service of all men between the ages of eighteen and fifty (Lwów, 1919); an appeal by the Vladimir Jabotinsky Union of Jewish Reservists in Poland calling for support in the fight against acts of terror committed by Arabs in Palestine (Lwów, undated); an appeal by Y. Mordalevych, chair of the Radomyshl/Radomyśl District Ukrainian Insurgents’ Committee, exhorting Jews not to join the ranks of the Red Army or support the Bolshevik government (1920); and a leaflet distributed by the Anti-Hitler Committee of Jewish Youth calling for a boycott of German goods (Lwów, 1935-39).
2) Printed documents pertaining to Jewish involvement in elections to the parliamentary institutions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Polish Republic, including a call for Jews to vote for B.-V. Goizman, a candidate for the Austrian parliament [1899]; an appeal by the Stanisławów Election Committee urging Jewish voters to take part in a general meeting featuring the Austrian parliamentary candidate Dr. M. Seinfeld (1907); an appeal by Rabbi Dr. S. A. Taubeles calling on Jews to only support, among candidates to the Austrian parliament, true defenders of the rights of Jews and Poles (undated); an appeal by the Jewish National Committee calling on all Jews to support Dr. A. Moller, a professor of the University of Lwów, in his campaign for the Austrian parliament (undated); a special issue of Lemberger Nachrichten containing an appeal to Jewish voters urging them to support the campaigns of Polish People’s Council (Polish: Rady Narodowej) members for the Austrian parliament (1911), etc.; pre-election appeals by the Jewish Election Committee of the Nonpartisan Bloc, which was in partnership with the government of Józef Piłsudski, calling on the Jews of Krzemieniec (Kremenets) to support only Nonpartisan Bloc candidates for the Polish Sejm (1924-30); an appeal by the central executive committee of the Jewish National Bloc (part of the National Minorities’ Bloc) calling on the Jews of Poland to support only candidates of this bloc in elections to the Polish Sejm (Warsaw, 1928); etc.
3) Materials reflecting the involvement of Jewish political parties and organisations in the revolutionary movement in late imperial Russia and their activities during the Civil War and early Soviet period, including leaflets with appeals to the Jewish population from the General Union of Jewish Workers in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia (the Bund) calling on Jews to take an active part in the first general meeting of workers in Lwów [1892], and to support the newspaper Arbeter shtime in its effort to produce Russian- and Hebrew-language editions (1901) – appended is a page from this newspaper containing an article titled “Zionism and Bread and Butter” (Łódź, [1901]); appeals by various committees and subdivisions of the Jewish Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Po’ale Tsiyon in Galicia and Poland, calling on Jews to join the party (Krakow, 1905, 1907), to take part in a May Day demonstration demanding an eight-hour work day (1907) and a general meeting devoted to the “Jewish question” (Drohobycz, 1911), and calling for aid in establishing the party’s press organ, the Social-Democrat newspaper (1911); an appeal calling for the protection of the Jewish population from pogroms in the western region of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR) [1918-19]; an announcement on the organising of a demonstration against imperialism and militarism and for international workers’ solidarity (Warsaw, 1927); announcements on the nomination of candidates for the Lwów Municipal Council [1930], etc.; an appeal by the Local Workers’ Committee of Przemyśl to the Jewish population, condemning the involvement of the Jewish bourgeoisie in suppressing the 1905 Revolution in Russia (1906); leaflets issued by the provisional bureau of the United Jewish Communist Workers’ Party (OEKRP) announcing an emergency meeting of its members (undated) and a general meeting of members of the OEKRP and the Communist Bund in Kamieniec Podolski/Kamianets-Podilskyi [1919]; etc.
4) There is a separate set of documents consisting of leaflets issued by various Zionist organisations, in particular, an appeal by the Zionist Electoral Committee to the Jewish population of the Drohobycz-Turka-Bolechów-Skole district calling on Jews to vote for Dr. Ts. Hershon in elections to the Austrian parliament (1917), and a statement describing the activities of Delegate Dr. D. Herman in the Austrian parliament (circa 1918); an appeal to the Jewish community by the regional commission of the Keren Kayemet le-Yisrael Jewish National Fund to raise funds for material assistance for the purchase of land in Palestine (Lwów, 1926); an appeal by the central committee of the Zionist Workers’ Organization Hit’aḥadut “to the Jewish working masses” exhorting them to only vote for candidates to the Polish Sejm from the national minorities’ bloc (Warsaw, [1930s]).
5) Documents from the period during the First World War when forces of the Russian Empire occupied Galicia and organised the General Government of Galicia, including orders of Count G. A. Bobrinskii, the Russian governor-general of Galicia, strictly prohibiting Jewish citizens from entering or leaving Galicia, or moving from county to county within it (Lwów, 1915); a decree of the governor-general, pursuant to an order of the commander-in-chief of the armies of the Southwestern Front, barring Jews’ movement within and departure from the territory of Galicia (Lwów, 1915); etc.
6) A collection of printed announcements of the German occupation authorities during the Second World War, including leaflets containing orders of the municipal head (stadthauptman) of Lemberg/Lwów Hans Kujath imposing a curfew for the Jewish population of the city; permitting the local Jewish population to buy food products in the markets from 12 to 2 pm; establishing the Lemberg/Lwów ghetto and stipulating the expulsion of Ukrainians and Poles from its territory (1941); a printed announcement of the head of the Lemberg/Lwów Labor Exchange instituting forced labour for Jews between the ages of fourteen and sixty (1941); various orders and decrees of the governor-general of occupied Poland Hans Frank, the governors of the District of Galicia Karl Lasch and Otto von Wächter, the Lemberg/Lwów municipal heads (stadthauptmans) Dr. A. Ulrich and E. Heller, the SS and Police commandant F. Katzman, and the head of the Lemberg/Lwów Judenrat Dr. Henryk Landsberg stipulating the rules by which Jews were supposed to reside in the ghetto; barring the private employment of Jews without the authorisation of the Labour Exchange’s Jewish section; mandating the compulsory vaccination of Jewish children for smallpox; etc. (1942-43).
7) Materials on Jewish culture, including posters and announcements: for a lecture by A. Shtand in a Jewish academic reading room in Brno on the subject of “The World War and the Jews” (1915); for a tour of the State Yiddish Revue Theatre of the BSSR (artistic directors Shimen [Szymon] Dzigan and Yisroel Shumacher [or Szumacher]), featuring the performances “Geshosn un Getrofn!” (Yiddish: “Shoot and You Will Hit!”), “Zingedik un tantzendik!” (Yiddish: “[Let’s] Sing and Dance!”) accompanied by a jazz orchestra conducted by Sh. Berezovsky (1941); an announcement on the repertoire of the Lviv/L’vov State Yiddish Drama Theatre, in particular, on performances based on Yiddish-language plays: Jacob Gordin’s Mirele Efros, staged by I. Kaminskaya (1940); Avrom Goldfadn’s Tsvey Kuni-Lemlekh (Yiddish: Two Simpletons) and The Tenth Commandment; Avraham Ber Gottlober’s Two Weddings in One Night, Jacob Gordin’s The Orphan Hasya, Yankev Dinezon’s Yosele, Perets Markish’s The Feast, Sholem Aleichem’s The Treasure, Yitskhok Leybush Peretz’s Sisters and Unequal Marriage, a play by S. Fridman based on the novel The Gadfly by Ethel Voynich; Ludwig Werne and V. Behr’s Bolbek the Lawyer, S. Gergel and O. Litovsky’s My Son (1941); an announcement of performances by the Jewish Theatre Collective of the Palace of Culture of the M. Gorky Industrial Coop: a staging of B. Dunaevsky’s play Brothers (Quiet Is the Ukrainian Night) (1941); announcements of evenings of “Jewish song and comedy” featuring the variety performers I. Khalif, T. Weintraub, I. Rosenina, E. Borer, N. Rabinovich and others (1941).
- Archival history:
- This collection was organised in the early 1960s; it was based on a collection of leaflets and posters received from the former library of the Lemberg/Lwów Municipal Archive that that institution had begun to collect in the early 1890s.
- Access points: locations:
- Bukovina
- Czerniowce
- Galicia
- Kamieniec Podolski
- Lwów
- Przemysl
- Zhytomyr
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures
- Bund movement
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Forced labour (of Jews)
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Ghettos
- Jewish holidays
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Jewish political activity
- Jewish press
- Matsah
- Pogroms
- Rabbis
- Revolutions
- Synagogues
- Theatre
- World War I
- World War II
- Zionism
- Zionism--Revisionist Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties
- System of arrangement:
- There is a thematic card index as well as inventory books and a subject catalogue.
- Finding aids:
- A card index etc. is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary