Road to Palestine. Zionist organizations, Lviv, Ukraine, 1908-1939.

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Subjects (All):

L'viv Region (Ukraine)--History--20th century--Sources.

L'viv Region (Ukraine).

Zionism--Ukraine--L'viv Region--History--Sources.

Zionism.

Jews--Ukraine--L'viv Region--History--History--Sources--20th century.

Jews.

Jews--Ukraine--L'viv Region--Societies, etc--History--20th century--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024.

Language Note:

English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, German, or Russian.

Summary:

Ukrainian Archives: Road to Palestine reflects the essential dynamism of Jewish political and social life in interwar Poland from its development following the reestablishment of Polish independence in 1918 through the Holocaust and focuses on one of the most politicized Jewish communities of interwar Poland: Eastern Galician Jewry and its capital in Lviv, which was then the third largest city in Poland. One should note the variety of designations given to the city of Lviv through history: 'Lemberg' under Austrian rule (1772-1918), it became 'Lwów' in the Polish Republic (1918-1939), 'Lvov' in the Soviet Union (1945-1991), and finally 'Lviv' in independent Ukraine (1991-). For clarity, the city will be most often referred to by its contemporary name, Lviv. In the early 1990s historical archives of the former Soviet Union were partially opened, greatly contributing to the advancement of academic research on Eastern Europe. Among them is the Central State Historical Archive in Lviv (Tsentral'nyi Derzhavnyi Istroychnyi Arkhiv in Lviv), now a centralized repository for historical documentation of Western Ukraine prior to Soviet rule. This archive has opened a new window for researchers into the history of the Jews who lived in the territory of Galicia for many centuries. Specifically, the collection gives access to 13 documentary fonds (archival record groups) drawn from the Historical Archive in Lviv. These fonds shed light on a variety of Zionist and Jewish welfare institutions working in East Galicia from the early 1920s until the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939, soon followed by the Soviet annexation of East Poland. As such, this collection significantly enlarges the scope of already available documentary sources, mainly housed at the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research in New York and the Central Zionist Archive in Jerusalem, on the development of Zionism and Jewish youth organizations in interwar Poland.

This collection reflects the essential dynamism of Jewish political and social life in interwar Poland from its development following the reestablishment of Polish independence in 1918 through the Holocaust and focuses on one of the most politicized Jewish communities of interwar Poland: Eastern Galician Jewry and its capital in Lviv, which was then the third largest city in Poland. One should note the variety of designations given to the city of Lviv through history: 'Lemberg' under Austrian rule (1772-1918), it became 'Lwów' in the Polish Republic (1918-1939), 'Lvov' in the Soviet Union (1945-1991), and finally 'Lviv' in independent Ukraine (1991-). For clarity, the city will be most often referred to by its contemporary name, Lviv. This collection, which focuses on Galicia and the Lviv province in particular, gives an invaluable regional perspective on the development of Zionism and Jewish political life during the 1920s and 1930s and will thus certainly enlarge our view of the Jewish experience in Poland on the whole.

Contents:

Subcollections: Record Group 332 Inventory 1: Lviv Regional Branch of the Palestinian Bureau, Lviv: on the Organisation of Emigration to Palestine

Record Group 334 Inventory 1: Lviv Branch of the Central Jewish Emigration Society "EAS", Lviv

Record Group 335 Inventory 1: Society for the Reconstruction of Palestine "Keren Hayesod", Lviv

Record Group 338 Inventory 1: Regional Zionist Organization, Lviv

Record Group 339 Inventory 1: Society "Keren Kaemet Leizrael" Lviv: National Jewish Foundation

Record Group 341 Inventory 1: Editorial and Administration of the Weekly Newspaper "Zionistskyi Dyden", Lviv, 1931-1938

Record Group 454 Inventory 1: Lviv Central Committee of the Jewish Organization of Artisans "Zionim Baalei Myktsoa", Lviv, 1933-1939.

Notes:

Date range of documents: 1908-1939.

Reproduction of the originals from Central State Historical Archive of Lviv.

OCLC:

1454355457

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Restricted for use by site license.