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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 43: RG-90.04.08, Sprawy Narodowosciowe. July - August 1927. No 4 Part 8

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:: Sprawy Narodowosciowe (National Minorities Affairs, publication); Research Institute for National Minorities Affairs, Warsaw, 1927 -- 1939; Polish periodicals, 1918 -- 1939; Polish political and social periodicals, 1918 -- 1939; Regional count of German population in interwar Poland, 1920s, Sprawy Narodowosciowe, 1927; Count of Germans in the Lodz and Warsaw provinces, 1920s, Sprawy Narodowosciowe, 1927; Scholarly articles in Sprawy Narodowosciowe (National Minorities Affairs), interwar Poland; Count of Germans in the Galician provinces, 1920s, Sprawy Narodowosciowe, 1927; Count of Germans in the Bialystok, Kilece and Nowogrodek provinces, 1920s, SN, 1927; Count of Germans in the Polesie and Wilno provinces and in Warsaw, 1920s, SN, 1927; Distribution of Germans in Polish provinces in regard to all population, 1920s, SN, 1927; Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance (UNDO), national-democratic party, interwar Poland; Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance (UNDO), political program and discourse, 1920s, SN, 1927; Ukrainian People's Labor Party, a premise for the UNDO, July 1925, SN, 1927; Ukrainian Labor Party (Ukrainska Trudova Partiia), Eastern Galicia, 1919 -- 1925; Ukrainian National Democratic Party transforms in to Ukrainian People's Labor Paraty, March 1919; Kost Levytskyj (Kost Levyckii, Konstanty Lewicki), Ukrainian politician, public figure, interwar; Kost Levytskyj, architect of Eastern Galician authonoy, helsman of Ukrainian National Democracy; Ukrainian National Democratic Party, political program in regard to an independent Ukrainian State; West Ukrainian National Republic, 1918 -- 1923; The Role of Ukrainian National Democratic Paraty in West Ukrainian National Republic, SN, 1927; Decision of the Council of Amabassadors from March 14, 1923 confirming in regard to East Galicia; Ukrainian Labor Party in regard to the decision of Council of Ambassadors, March 14, 1923, SN, 1927; Ukrainian Labor Party, the program of territorial autonomy after March 14, 1923, SN, 1927; Congress of Ukrainian Labor Party, Petrushevych line, orientation on Soviet Ukraine, April 1924; Split in Ukrainian Labor Party on left and right with regard to Polish state and Soviet Ukraine; Unifying congress of Ukrainian political forces in Lviv, July 11, 1925; Ukrainian People's Labor Party, Unifying Congress in Lviv, July 11, 1925; Ukrainian Party of National Work, Unifying Congress in Lviv, July 11, 1925; Ukrainian Parliamentary Representation, Unifying Congress in Lviv, July 11, 1925; Creation of Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance on Unifying Congress in Lviv, July 11, 1925; Political Program of UNDO in regard to Ukrainaian independent state, Unifying Congress, Lviv, 1925; Rada (Council), a periodical, organ of the Ukrainian Labor Party, 1925 -- 1934; Rada (Council), Ukrainian periodical about political program of the UNDO, July 1925; Evhen Petrushevych, statesman, President of West Ukrainian National Republic, 1863 -- 1940; Evhern Petrushevych, statesman, public figure, Ukrainian politician, political activity, 1918 - 1939; Congress of Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance (UNDO) in Lviv, October 20, 1926; Volodymyr Bachynskyj (Bachynskii), Ukrainian politician supporter of a compromise with Poland; Congress of the UNDO in Lviv, 1926, negative stand to Soviet Ukraine; Congress of the UNDO in Lviv, 1926, rejection of foreign representation (Petrushevych); Congress of the UNDO in Lviv, 1926, probability of cooperation with Polish government; Congress of the UNDO in Lviv, 1926, a guiding conception of relying on our own resources; Political trends in the UNDO since 1926, relying on the resources of our own; Political trends in the UNDO since 1926, orientation on Soviet Ukraine (Ukrainian Labor Paraty Left); Political trends in the UNDO since 1926, orientation on Poland (UKrainian Labor Party Right); UNDO, prevailing political trend, relying on resources of their own; People's Organization of Ukrainians, Lviv, Ukrainian political organization, interwar period; Ukrainskii Prapor (the Ukrainian Banner), a Berlin-based periodical controlled by Evhen Petrushevych; Minister Leon Wasilewski, Commission of Experts, Polish administration, interwar Poland; Etimology of designations, Ruski, Rusinski or Ukrainianski by Leon Wasilewski, 1927; Historic discourse in regard to ethnonational names Ruski, Rusinski, Ukrainski by Leon Wasislewski; Historic discourse in regard to ethno-religious entity Ukraina - Rus, by Leon Wasislewski, 1927; Formation of a Ukrainian nation and designation of Ukraine (Ukrainia) as a geo-political entity; Ethnonym Ukraina - Rus (Ukraine - Rus) and a historic discourse, by Leon Wasilewski; Perception of Galician Ukrainians to the etimology of Rusin (Ruthenian) and Ukrainets (Ukrainian); Acceptance of new political terminology Ukrainets (Ukrainian) and Ukrainski (of Ukraine), Wasilewski; Polish official terminology adopting a Ukrainian versus Ruthenian designation, by Leon Wasilewski; Documents in Polish language; Narratives in Polish language

Creators:: Sprawy Narodowosciowe, editorial board and contributors (1927 -- 1939); Research Institute for National Minorities Affairs, Warsaw, 1927 -- 1939; Stanislaw Paprocki, Polish scholar, editor-in-chief of Sprawy Narodowosciowe, 1927 – 1939