Maturity certificate of Jakub Leon Zuckerberg (1910-2003) from the Władysław Jagiełło High School in Drohobych. Document with photograph. Visible on the document are the stamps of the Examination Commission, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Kazimierz Wielki University in Lviv (then Lwów, Poland), and a stamp of stamp duty.
After the war, Jakub Leon Zuckerberg used the name Leon Horoszowski and lived in Wrocław, then in Warsaw. In 1968 he emigrated to Germany.
The school where he obtained his maturity certificate was founded on 23 May 1858 as Franz Joseph High School by the municipal authorities. In 1919, after Poland regained its independence, the high school was named after King Władysław Jagiełło.
At the time when Jakub Leon Zuckerberg attended the school (1921-1930), it was located at 34 Zielona Street (now vul. Ivana Franko 24, Ukrainian: вул. Івана Франко 24). At the time, fewer than 600 pupils were studying there. The language of instruction was Polish.
It was not a Jewish school, but was firmly embedded in the life of the local Jewish community. Jews predominated among gymnasium graduates in the first decade of the Second Republic. Between 1918 and 1928, Jewish pupils made up at least 53% of the total number of students. In the city itself, Jews accounted for approx. 44% of the population.
Among the many prominent representatives of the Władysław jagiełło High School we can find Bruno Schulz himself, first as a pupil (1902-1910) and then as a long-time teacher of drawing and handwork, occasionally also of mathematics (1924-1941).
The certificate tells us what subjects the pupils of this Lviv school were allowed to take for their maturity exams in the interwar period. The first subject mentioned is religion, in which Jakub Leon Zuckerberg obtained a good grade (indicative of the secularisation of the family). Further on, we see a subject called history and the study of modern Poland, natural science, physics and chemistry, mathematics. In all of them he received a 'satisfactory' grade. The following page also lists the subjects in which he obtained annual credits in grades VI-VIII. These included Polish language, philosophy propedeutics, drawing, physical exercises, and hygiene.
The document was donated to the collection by Mrs. Małgorzata Grabowska. Jakub Leon Zuckerberg was her father's half-brother. | Marta Frączkiewicz
