Metadata: Jewish Community in Tarnopol (1874-1939)
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Holding institution (official language):
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Postal address:
- ul. Tłomackie 3/5, 00-090 Warszawa
- Phone number:
- +48 (22) 827 92 21
- Email:
- secretary@jhi.pl
- Reference number:
- 312/110
- Title:
- Jewish Community in Tarnopol (1874-1939)
- Title (official language):
- Gmina Żydowska w Tarnopolu (1874-1939)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish community in Tarnopol
- Date(s):
- 1874/1939
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- Extent:
- 0.15 linear metres (31 archival units)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection includes documents on the activities of philanthropic foundations, such as: legates, wills, foundation statutes, reports, court rulings, documents regarding the foundation's property, correspondence with the county administration, the Voivodship Office, the Lviv Voivode and the Jewish Population Registry in matters of individual foundations, reports meetings of the Jewish Community Board regarding foundations, financial and banking documents and other documents. They relate to the following foundations and bequests:
Abe Eberman Foundation (19 May 1889 - 1939)
Feigi Chaji Königsberg Foundation (1892-1939), for dowries
Dawid Francoz Foundation (1911-1939)
Abraham Kittner Foundation (1877-1937); after the foundation was dissolved, its capital was transferred to the David Francoz Foundation
Milka Karpf Foundation and other small foundations (September 1881- 8 August 1939)
Majer Weissglas charity foundation for the Jewish poor in Tarnopol. (2 December 1926 - 1939)
Jakub Czosnowski Foundation (1895-1932)
Bequest of Jakub Eberman (27.09.1882-1937)
Salomon Eberman Foundation (1918-1937)
Foundation Simcha Fröhlich (1932-1933)
Estera Brüner Foundation (1908-1939)
Moses Parnas Foundation (1895-1934)
S Marmorek Foundation (1913)
Mojżesz Katz and Złata Raisa Dudaków Foundation (1892-1932)
Horowitz Foundation (1920-1923)
Kurfürst Foundation (1898-1905)
Markus Eliasz Günsberg, M. Weissglas Foundation (1919-1931)
Rudolf Gall Foundation (1897-1939)
Dr. Melchior Axelrad Foundation (1892-1897)
Saul Parnass Foundation (1874-1939)
Ryfka Peller Foundation (1933-1939)
Board of Trustees of the Józef Perl Foundation (1934-1938)
Jakub Schmierer Foundation (1935-1938)
Bequest of Ozjasz Kaminker, (debts of Joel Rothstein) (1932-1938)
Łukaczer Bequest (1931-1938)
Bequest of Jekel Luftig (1934-1936)
Bequest of Hersz Lilli (1931-1939)
Bequest of Pesa Ruchla Safier (1929-1935)
Bequest of Mariem Kammerling - Hirschhorn, 1936
Bequest of Samuel Schulbaum, 1935
Izydor Weissglas Foundation (1923-1937).
- Archival history:
- The fate of the archive of the Jewish community in Tarnopol is unknown. There are just a few extant records regarding foundations in Poland after 1945; they were taken over in 1947 from the collections of the Central Jewish Historical Commission.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jews lived in Tarnopol since it was granted town rights in 1550. They were not allowed to reside on the market square. They made a living from grain and cattle trade to Germany. After a great fire in 1623, they obtained permission to erect a stone synagogue. During the Khmelnytsky Uprising, some of the 300 Jewish families were murdered by the Cossack army. At the end of the 18th century, thanks to Józef Perl (1773-1839), a writer and educator fighting against Hasidism and the founder of the first Jewish secular school, one of the oldest Haskalah centres was established in Tarnopol. Jews took part in municipal elections in Tarnopol in 1843-1844; it was one of the first such cases in Galicia. In 1868, 11,000 Jews lived in this town; in 1910, there were 14,000, which constituted 46% of the total population. Town life declined during World War I, but revived in the interwar period. Numerous political and social organisations and charity foundations operated. The Zionist movement enjoyed strong support. In addition to the former Perl school, other private Jewish schools were established, and a Jewish amateur theatre operated. In 1939, the number of Jewish inhabitants was about 18,000. The German occupation began with a pogrom in which about 2,000 victims were killed. The Judenrat was established in August 1941; the ghetto in September. Most of the Jews of Tarnopol died in Bełżec, 739 Jews survived the war.
- Access points: locations:
- Tarnopol
- Access points: persons/families:
- Eberman, Jakub
- Kaminker, Ozjasz
- Kammerling-Hirschhorn, Mariem
- Lilli, Hersz
- Luftig, Jekel
- Łukaczer
- Safier, Pesa Ruchla
- Schulbaum, Samuel
- Finding aids:
- A Polish language digital inventory (2009-2015) is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Agnieszka Reszka, Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, 2019
