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Title: National Minorities Affairs (Sprawy Narodowosciowe), scholarly quarterly, interwar Poland, 1927-1939

ID: RG-90/RG-90

Primary Creator: Research Institute for National Minorities Affairs, Warsaw, 1927 -- 1939

Other Creators: Stanislaw Paprocki, Polish scholar, editor-in-chief of Sprawy Narodowosciowe, 1927 – 1939, Sprawy Narodowosciowe, editorial board and contributors (1927 -- 1939)

Extent: 6.0 Boxes

Subjects: Dilo (the Deed), Ukrainian daily, 1880 --1939, Dmytro Paliiv (Дмитро Palijiv), political and military figure, journalist, 1896 -- 1944, Documents in Ukrainian language, Ethnonational and religious groups in Poland, 1918 -- 1939, German ethnonational group in interwar Poland, German parliamentary representation in the Seum (Polish Parliament), 1918 -- 1939, German political establishment with regard to Polish statehood, 1918 -- 1939, Governmental prescriptions in regard to public and private education, interwar Poland, Hromadskyi Holos (Community Voice), Ukrainian social democratic publication, interwar Poland, Jewish economic and commercial affairs in interwar Poland, Jewish ethnonational and religious group in interwar Poland, Jewish national and religious aspirations, interwar Poland, Jewish national narrative, interwar Poland, Jewish parliamentary representation in the Sejm (Polish Parliament), 1918 -- 1939, Jewish PEN club in interwar Poland, Sprawy Narodowowsciowe, Jewish political establishment with regard to Polish statehood, 1918 -- 1939, Jewish social and cultural publications, Eastern Galicia, 1918 --1939, Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Education (MWRiOP), interwar Poland, Nash Prapor, periodical Ukrainian, interwar Poland, National Democratic party (Natsionalno-Demokratychna partiia), East Galicia, 1899 -- 1919, National self-identification according to mother tongue, Second General Census, 1931, National self-identification according to religious denomination, Second General Census, 1931, National self-identification as a historical category, Normalization (Normalizatsiia), an agreement between Polish Government and the UNDO, 1935, Periodicals, Jewish, interwar Poland, Periodicals, Ukrainian, interwar Poland, Poland (1918--1939), Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie" (Liberation), 1915 -- 1931, Reforming of Jewish religious education by the WRiOP, resistance of the Orthodoxy, interwar Poland, Reports of Jewish activities in Palestine, 1920s, Sprawy Narodowosciowe, Scholarly articles in Sprawy Narodowosciowe (National Minorities Affairs), interwar Poland, Spectrum of Jewish political movements in Poland, 1918 -- 1939, Sprawy Narodowosciowe, editorial and program articles, Territorial and state ethnonational groups in interwar Poland, 1918 -- 1939, Theories of nations, peoples and nationalities, Theories of the nations, peoples and nationalities with regard to Central and East European States, Theories of the state and nationalities presented in National Minorities Affairs, Poland, Ukrainian ethnonational group in interwar Poland, Ukrainian Labor Party (Ukrainska Trudova Partiia), Eastern Galicia, 1919 -- 1925, Ukrainian national aspirations, interwar Poland, Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance (UNDO), national-democratic party, interwar Poland, Ukrainian national narrative, interwar Poland, Ukrainian parliamentary representations in Polish Sejm and Senate, interwar Poland, Ukrainian Party of National Work (Ukrainska partiia natsionalnoi roboty, or UPNR), 1924 -- 1925, Ukrainian political and religious establishment with regard to Polish statehood, 1918 -- 1939, Ukrainian political parties, Eastern Galicia, interwar Poland, Ukrainian political spectrum in interwar Poland, West Ukrainian National Republic, 1918 -- 1923, National Minorities Affairs

Forms of Material: Sprawy Narodowosciowe (National Minorities Affairs, publication)

Languages: Polish

Abstract

It was a bi-monthly/quarterly periodical published in Warsaw by the Research Institute for National Minorities under editorship of Stanislaw Paprocki in 1927 – 1939

This publication reflected largely an inner perspective inherent and intrinsic to Ukrainian, Jewish, German and other national minorities of interwar Poland.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Sprawy Narodowosciowe (National Minorities Affairs) analyzed, reviewed and presented the state of political, social, cultural activities with regard to political establishment of national minorities in interwar Poland. The Journal also reflected on the interaction with Polish state and between national minorities. The Research Institute for National Minorities collected information from the periodicals published by the national minorities, as well as from official Polish publications.

Collection Historical Note

This Journal is structured according to the mosaic of national minorities in interwar Poland. Every issue contains program, editorial and analytical articles, elucidating a theme related to ethnonational sphere. Then in a rubricated form the current a state of being for the given national minority. The themes normally chronicle the current state of political, social, cultural and economic affairs with regard to every sizable national minority in interwar Poland.

The Second Polish Republic, although striving to a nation-state status, or the state with the domineering Polish national cause, remained a multiethnic country with the 30 percent of non-Polish population. The largest ethnonational group were Ukrainians, constituting from 5 to 7 millions. The second largest ethnonational, or according to the official designation, religious group were Jews, amounting to 3.1 million people. The third largest national group were Germans, comprising 740,000 people.

In political sense, Ukrainians and Germans were irredentists. The extent of unacceptance and degree of denial legitimacy to the Polish state vary. Political aspiration of Ukrainians and Germans also differed. The Ukrainians were territorial ethnonational group, living on the ethnic Ukrainian territory. An eternal Ukrainian agenda was establishing Ukrainian independent state in all ethnic Ukrainian territories. The Germans, although living in the newly acquired Polish territories (former German), were state people and largely were seeking reunification with Germany. The Jews were neither territorial, nor state ethnonational or religious group. They constituted largely urban population. In central Poland, Galicia and western Volhynia, Jews constituted from 30 to 60 percent of the urban population. In political sense, Jewish nationally oriented political parties strived to attain equal civil, economic and cultural rights with non-Jewish citizens. Jewish Orthodoxy largely was concerned with preservation of observance and free execution of all religious rites and did not confront Polish authorities otherwise.

This journal reflected on a full specter of ethnonational and religious affairs in interwar Poland.

Biographical Note

This scientific institution was created by the after the May 1926 Coup D’état in Poland. It was directed and patronized by the Pilsudskiite government. Largely, the Institute in general and its publication in particular worked to fulfill its mission, to ease the tensions between national minorities and the state

Subject/Index Terms

Dilo (the Deed), Ukrainian daily, 1880 --1939
Dmytro Paliiv (Дмитро Palijiv), political and military figure, journalist, 1896 -- 1944
Documents in Ukrainian language
Ethnonational and religious groups in Poland, 1918 -- 1939
German ethnonational group in interwar Poland
German parliamentary representation in the Seum (Polish Parliament), 1918 -- 1939
German political establishment with regard to Polish statehood, 1918 -- 1939
Governmental prescriptions in regard to public and private education, interwar Poland
Hromadskyi Holos (Community Voice), Ukrainian social democratic publication, interwar Poland
Jewish economic and commercial affairs in interwar Poland
Jewish ethnonational and religious group in interwar Poland
Jewish national and religious aspirations, interwar Poland
Jewish national narrative, interwar Poland
Jewish parliamentary representation in the Sejm (Polish Parliament), 1918 -- 1939
Jewish PEN club in interwar Poland, Sprawy Narodowowsciowe
Jewish political establishment with regard to Polish statehood, 1918 -- 1939
Jewish social and cultural publications, Eastern Galicia, 1918 --1939
Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Education (MWRiOP), interwar Poland
Nash Prapor, periodical Ukrainian, interwar Poland
National Democratic party (Natsionalno-Demokratychna partiia), East Galicia, 1899 -- 1919
National self-identification according to mother tongue, Second General Census, 1931
National self-identification according to religious denomination, Second General Census, 1931
National self-identification as a historical category
Normalization (Normalizatsiia), an agreement between Polish Government and the UNDO, 1935
Periodicals, Jewish, interwar Poland
Periodicals, Ukrainian, interwar Poland
Poland (1918--1939)
Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie" (Liberation), 1915 -- 1931
Reforming of Jewish religious education by the WRiOP, resistance of the Orthodoxy, interwar Poland
Reports of Jewish activities in Palestine, 1920s, Sprawy Narodowosciowe
Scholarly articles in Sprawy Narodowosciowe (National Minorities Affairs), interwar Poland
Spectrum of Jewish political movements in Poland, 1918 -- 1939
Sprawy Narodowosciowe, editorial and program articles
Territorial and state ethnonational groups in interwar Poland, 1918 -- 1939
Theories of nations, peoples and nationalities
Theories of the nations, peoples and nationalities with regard to Central and East European States
Theories of the state and nationalities presented in National Minorities Affairs, Poland
Ukrainian ethnonational group in interwar Poland
Ukrainian Labor Party (Ukrainska Trudova Partiia), Eastern Galicia, 1919 -- 1925
Ukrainian national aspirations, interwar Poland
Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance (UNDO), national-democratic party, interwar Poland
Ukrainian national narrative, interwar Poland
Ukrainian parliamentary representations in Polish Sejm and Senate, interwar Poland
Ukrainian Party of National Work (Ukrainska partiia natsionalnoi roboty, or UPNR), 1924 -- 1925
Ukrainian political and religious establishment with regard to Polish statehood, 1918 -- 1939
Ukrainian political parties, Eastern Galicia, interwar Poland
Ukrainian political spectrum in interwar Poland
West Ukrainian National Republic, 1918 -- 1923, National Minorities Affairs

Box and Folder Listing

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 28: RG-90.03.05, Sprawy Narodowosciowe. May - June 1927. No 3, part 5

National Minorities Affairs, journal of scholarly analysis and reviews with regard to ethno-national discourse in interwar Poland, published in Warsaw, 1927 – 1939

Subject/Index Terms:: Scholarly articles in Sprawy Narodowosciowe (National Minorities Affairs), interwar Poland; Sprawy Narodowosciowe (National Minorities Affairs, publication); Discourse with the national minorities in interwar Europe, Sprawy Narodowosciowe; Polish periodicals, 1918 -- 1939; Polish political and social periodicals, 1918 -- 1939; Ukrainian perception of Orthodox Church in interwar Poland with regard to national identity; Orthodox Church in ethnic Ukrainian territories, interwar Poland, Sprawy Narodowosciowe, 1927; National confrontation in Orthodox Church in interwar Poland, Sprawy Narodowosciowe, 1927; Nation as a cultural entity, theories of nations, Sprawy Narodowosciowe, 1927; Theories of the state and nationalities presented in National Minorities Affairs, Poland; Material versus spiritual in regard to the determination of the national kernel, 1927; Herrenvolk or Master Race theory, German national concept utilized by National Socialism, 1920s; German cultural entity, a national construct intrinsic to the Herrenvolk (Master Race) theory; German alternative national theories to the theory of Herrenvolk (Master Race); Nation as a cultural-historic entity, an alternative theory to the Herrenvolk theory (Master Race); Mother tongue (national language) is a main criterion of national identity of a nation's integrity; Concession on the opening of private general education schools, WRiOP, 1927

Creators:: Research Institute for National Minorities Affairs, Warsaw, 1927 -- 1939; Sprawy Narodowosciowe (National Minorities Affairs) (1931 -- 1939); Stanislaw Paprocki, editor-in-chief of Sprawy Narodowosciowe, 1927 -- 1939