Wychowanie patriotyczno-obywatelskie w szkole żydowskiej w okresie międzywojennym (na przykładzie Lwowa)
Patriotic-civic education in the Jewish school in the interwar period (as exemplified by Lviv)

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the determinants of the patriotic-civic education of Jewish students in Lviv in the years 1918-1939. In this city, the third largest Jewish diaspora in Poland (the largest two being those in Warsaw and Łódź), constituting more than 30% of the entire population (approximately 100 thousand people), was living. Jews were an important element of multi-cultural Lviv. Similarly to other nationalities, they were legally obliged to attend schools, and had to undergo education in accordance with the guidelines of the Ministry of Religious Confessions and Public Enlightenment, governing the curriculum of patriotic-civic education. The state ran public schools, taking under consideration the needs of those of their attendees who were the followers of Judaism; private schooling, maintained by Jewish communes and societies, was developing as well.As the subject-matter of research, the oldest (as existing since the year 1844) Jewish secular school (bearing the name of Abraham Kohn), and also T. Czacki Primary School, established yet as early as in the period of the autonomy of Galicia, namely in the year 1879, were selected. This paper was based upon the archive materials stored in the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv, collected in the sets bearing the following names: Jewish Community of the City of Lviv (1772–1939), and also the Office of the Superintendent of the Lviv School District (1921–1939). Those sets are composed of: correspondence between educational authorities, the reports of school inspectors, and also school documentation (correspondence, reports on the conference of teachers). Those materials have not hitherto been taken advantage of in the literature concerned with the history of education.

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