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Making and Defending a Polish Town: “Lwów” (Lemberg), 1848-1914

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Many east central European towns and cities bear several names, reflecting the ethnic and religious diversity once characteristic of the region. The town chosen in 1772 by the Habsburgs as capital of their newly acquired province of Galicia serves as an example. In the second half of the nineteenth century Ruthenian national populists referred to the city as “Ľviv”; Russophiles designated the city “Ľvov.” For Poles and Polonized Jews the town was “Lwów,” and for Germans as well as German- and Yiddish-speaking Jews the city was “Lemberg.” The ethnic and linguistic reality was, in fact, much less clear than these divisions would suggest. For much of the period of Habsburg rule, language barriers remained permeable. The city's inhabitants were multilingual, often employing different languages depending on the type of communication in which they were engaged. By the

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Forum: A City of Many Names: Lemberg/Lwów/L'viv/L'vov— Nationalizing in an Urban Context
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Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 2003

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40 The “de-austrianization” was not very conspicuous, as there were not many Austriandefined names. “Ferdinandsplatz” was turned into “plac Mariacki” (after a statue of St. Mary erected in 1862), and Fresnel Straße into ulica Kościuszko. The main promenade kept its Austrian name honoring Karl Ludwig, as did the hill with the old castle, which was named for the reigning emperor, Francis Joseph.

41 The relevant state of affairs can be conveniently traced by the growing number of urban maps, especially the most splendid one, issued by the city council in 1890: “Plan królewskiego stołecznego miasta Lwowa (z enklava Jalowiec) wydany staraniem i nakładem Rady miejskiej /Plan der k. Residenzstadt Lemberg und der Enclave Jalowiec, hgg. v. Stadtrat,” then in the immediate prewar years, “Lwów—Lemberg—Ľviv—Léopol“ (Ľviv, ca. 1912).

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65 Myśli nowoczesnego Polaka (Ľviv, 1903). In the course of only thre years, two further editions were to follow. On the ideology of the National Democrats, see Brian, Porter, When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland (New York, 2000).Google Scholar

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68 The Jewish national movement was the most recent of the three “sources of threat.” Oriented toward urbanity and embracing Galuth nationalism, the Lwów-centered Jewish national movement also represented a third idea of Lwów as a capital of a constructed Jewish nationality in the Habsburg Empire. This topic would deserve further study. An overview of the Jewish history of the town is given by Vladimir, Melamed, Evrei vo Lvove: XIII—pervaia polovina XX veka (The Jews of Ľvov from the thirteenth to the middle of the nineteenth century) (Ľviv, 1994).Google Scholar

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70 In 1905, the insurance company Dnister had erected a “Ruthenian” building on “Ruska street,” of which the facade had been decorated in a mixed style of art nouveau and Ruthenian folk art. In 1895, the Enlightment society Prosvita, a core institution for the Ukrainophiles, had aquired the former Lubomirski palace on the comer of the market square. The building offered space for political and cultural gatherings and harbored Ukrainophile societies, newspaper offices, and a bookshop. Other important new buildings were those for the Shevchenko and Pedagogical societies, the National Hotel (Narodna Hostynnytsja, 1906), which hosted a “Ruthenian” restaurant and coffee shop, and finally the National Museum (Narodnyj Muzej, 1913).

71 The account is in Dilo, July 2, 1912, p. 2. The day ended in heavy clashes between students and acts of vandalism against Ukrainian institutions. Dilo, July 3, 1912, p. 4. Gazeta Narodowa, July 3, 1912, p. 2.

72 On the Shashkevych festivity, see Dilo, Nov. 3-Nov. 6, 1911 (Nr. 245–47). Two other major commemorations in the prewar years were held for Shevchenko in March 1911 and in 1914.

73 Słvwo Polskie, May 6, 1912, p. 1.

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