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CENTRAL STATE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES
OF UKRAINE IN LVIV
by Miriam Weiner and Valery Bazarov

Group of Jewish genealogists visiting the reading room of the Central State Historical Archives in Lviv during a Routes to Roots tour, 1992 (Photo credit: Miriam Weiner)		One of the many very old Jewish documents in the Centrat State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv, 1994. (Photo credit: Miriam Weiner)

RECORD GROUPS RELATING TO THE GENERAL POPULATION
WHICH INCLUDE JEWISH NAMES

Many of the documents held in other fonds of the Central State Historical Archives contain matters related to Jews, such as:

Emigration Records

Fond 422. Office of the Emigration Directorate Representative, Lviv.
3,367 files, 1920–1933 (Polish)

Emigration documents relating to:
Australia
Austria
Argentina
Africa
Belgium
Canada
Chile
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
Ecuador
France
Finland
Germany
Japan
Italy
Paraguay
Uruguay
USA
USSR
Yugoslavia.
Statistics relating to emigration matters.

          Sample Document (pdf)

Economics Collection
French concern of oil and trade industry, Malopolska, Lviv, 1885–1940, Fond 225
Includes lists of employees, personal files, correspondence and much more: 1885–1940.

Sample Document (pdf)

Legislative and Administrative Collections
Documents related to the history of Jews in XVII— XVIII centuries can be found in the fonds of the Zemsky courts.

• Zemsky Court of Belz, 1439–1784, Fond 2, File 373;
• Zemsky Court of Busk, 1680–1784, Fond 4, File 3;
• Zemsky Court of Galich, 1435–1738, Fond 6, File 359;
• Zemsky Court of Zhidachev, 1557–1784, Fond 8, File 29;
• Zemsky Court of Lviv, 1446–1787, Fond 10, File 491;
• Zemsky Court of Peremyshl, 1557–1784, Fond 14, File 319.

Documents of city magistrates contain information related to the history of the Jewish artisans, merchants, Kahal activities, relationship of the Jewish population
with the city council, mayors, kings and nobility.

• City Council of Belz, 1458–1855, Fond 22, File 44;
• City Council of Brody, 1588–1853, Fond 24, File 65;
• City Council of Drogobych, 1531–1877, Fond 29, File 27;
• City Council of Siyanka, 1683- 1864, Fond 44, File 27;

   Sample Document (pdf)

• City Council of Lviv, 1458–1855, Fond 52, File 2430;
• City Council of Zhidachev, 1672–1787, Fond 68, File 3;
• City Council of Zholkva, 1622–1890, Fond 69, File 3;
• City Council of Zlochev, 1666–1887, Fond 70, File 70;
• City Council of Galich, 1787–1854, Fond 728, File 454.

Altogether, there are 40 Fonds of city magistrates in the Lviv Historical Archives related to the history of Jewish communities of Russky and Belz voyevods (provinces).


Fonds of the Attorney Offices

• Gentry Court of Lviv, 1712–1899, Fond 149;
• Supreme Regional Court of Lviv, 1772–1919, Fond 150;
• Lviv Court of Appeal, 1915–1939, Fond 151;
• State Attorney Office, 1861–1918, Fond 156, File 2094;
• Galicia Attorney Office, 1773–1918, Fond 159, File 80172;
• Tabula Krayova, 1632–1939, Fond 166;
• Lviv Office of Attorney, 1919–1939, Fond 205, File 3236;
• Lviv Office of Attorney, 1861–1918, Fond 458, File 1807;
• Podvoyevodinsky Court, 1740–1788, Fond 738, File 9,
   Created to deal with the Jewish civil cases.
   Kahal representatives participated in court sessions.

Educational Collections

Lviv Regional School Council, 1797–1939, Fond 178— (File 18692, 1813–1921)
Includes documents related to the foundation of Jewish religious and secular schools, their financing, religious teachers in state schools, donations and students' financial aid, artisan and agriculture schools.

Sample Document (pdf)

Curatoria of Lviv School District, 1843–1943, Fond 179
Includes material with personal information, official testimonies, property inventories, alphabetical indexes of surnames, lists of students and teachers in the Jewish schools, and much more.

Sample Document (pdf)

Ministry of Confessions and Education, Vienna, Fond 639, 1835–1920
Contains documents regarding the monitoring of Jewish schools

Financial Collections

• Josefinskan Metrica, Fond 19, File 5496
   Includes property records, descriptions of land parcels, names of owners,
   communities boundaries, lists of private buildings, 1785–1793.

• Franciscan Metrica, Fond 20, File 5483
Includes property and land records, alphabetical lists of landowners, property transactions, marriage contracts, tax assessment, 1807–1902.

Sample Document (pdf)

• Regional Land Tax Assessment Commission in Lviv, Fond 186
Includes lists of the land lots, real estate inventories, and names of landowners, 1813–1939. The following districts are included:

Berezhany
Zhovkiv
Zolochev
Kolomiya
Lviv
Peremyshl (Przemysl)
Sambir (Sambor)
Stanislav
Stryy (Stryj)
Ternopil
Chortkiv (Chortkov)
Ryashiv
Syanots
Yaroslav
Yasliv
Bokhnyany
Novosanciv
Krakov (Krakow)
Tarnov (Tarnow)
Vadovitsk

Sample Document (pdf)

• Fond of the state accounting office, 1774–1866, Fond 187, File 437;
• Fond of Regional Financial Directorate, 1778–1919, Fond 160, File 7968.
• Fond of Trade and Industrial Shareholders Association, 1844–1939, Fond 248, File 38826;
• Fond of Railway Shareholders Associations, 1867–1943, Fond 288, File 7605;
• Fond of the Lviv Regional Bank, 1884–1944, Fond 484, File 8116.


Church and King: property collections
These collections include documents containing information about Jewish merchants, contractors, persecution and baptizing of Jews. They contain information about Jewish pogroms during the peasant rebellions under Bogdan Khmelnitsky, and during the wars with Sweden in the XVII— XVIII centuries, and complaints by Jews of the priests falsely accusing Jews in ritual murders.

• Lviv Roman Catholic Capitol, 1417–1939, Fond 107, File 328;
• Catholic Monasteries, Costels and Churches, 1310–1903, Fond 140, File 340;
• Greek Catholic Metropolitan Consistory in Lviv, 1900–1945, Fond 208, File 42876;
• Dominican and Benedictin Monasteries, 1545–1944, Fond 418;
• Sale of the Royal Church and other real estate property, 1685–1886, Fond, 453, File 2189;
• Lviv Greek Catholic Capitol, 1746–1944, Fond 491, File 988;
• Roman Catholic Consistory, 1492–1944, Fond 618, File 2469.


Personal fonds of Jewish public figures

• Fond 761 Maximillian Goldstein, 1895–1941

Personal and public fonds, which contain documents relating to Jewish history

• Fond 135 Vladislav Lozinsky, 1843–1915;
• Fond 138 Carol Badetsky, 1886–1953;
• Fond 362 Yulian Romanchuk, 1881–1927;
• Fond 408, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptitsky, 1868–1946, File 586.
• Fond 309 T.G. Shevchenko Society, File 486. A letter from King Jan Casimir
(1649) to the Greek Catholic clergy regarding the prevention of violence towards Jews.
• Fond 780 Army Bureau of Registration in Vienna, 1849–1945, 27,230 files, German, Polish, Ukrainian.

Sample Document (pdf)

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