Єврейські фотографи та фотостудії Львова (1860-1939) الأوكرانية 2023

The monograph is dedicated to the history of Jewish photographers and photo studios in Lviv from 1850 to 1939. To this day, quite a few fundamental materials and documents on this topic have been preserved. However, the art collections of Lviv museums, as well as an array of photographs of Jewish (and not only) subjects scattered in museums, libraries, and private collections, give scientists (and not only) opportunities to develop research on this topic and learn about new facts of this page of history. Photography has long acquired the status of an important historical and cultural source. The photographs in this book are primarily an informative retelling of the life of Lviv residents at the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries. The found photographs of famous and unknown photographers (professionals and amateurs) reflect changes in city life, elections to self-governing bodies, patriotic and protest demonstrations, and the construction of cultural, industrial, and public objects significant for the city. Photography did not miss cultural and artistic events, the emergence of technical innovations, the formation of the first sports clubs, and at the same time - everything that was of everyday interest to the townspeople: disasters and destruction of buildings, fires, and floods, criminal chronicles, and high-profile lawsuits. It is important to bring back into the fabric of the urban environment once known and now completely unknown names, because almost all of these photographers, as well as their families, with few exceptions, died during the Holocaust - the mass destruction of the Jewish population of Lviv.