The Faina Petryakova Center for Judaica and Jewish Art was set up to commemorate the life of Faina Petryakova – a scholar and a passionate defender and promoter of Jewish art. Petryakova was born…
An announcement of an initiative from the Ukrainian Civic Group for the Restoration of the Activities of the Jewish Museum in Lviv The Jewish Museum in Lviv opened on 17 June 1934 in a Jewish…
The culturologist Diana Klochko talks about the tradition of the vertep, [a type of Ukrainian puppet theater re-enacting the Nativity—Trans.] and the contemporaneity of vertep characters that represent national minorities: Jews, Roma, Armenians, and others….
S. An-sky (Jewish author, playwright, and researcher of Jewish folklore) led a series of expeditions in 1912-1914, accompanied by a photographer and musicologist, with a view to recording Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement…
On the exhibition of ketubot at the Borys Voznytsky National Art Gallery of Lviv. The exhibition features Jewish marriage contracts, which were saved by the Lviv collector and hematologist Marek Reichenstein. (Editor’s note: The exhibition…