The monograph is devoted to the history of Jewish photographers and photo studios in Lviv from 1850 to 1939. To this day, few basic materials and documents on this topic have survived. However, the art collections of Lviv museums, as well as an array of Jewish (and other) photographs scattered throughout the museum, library, and private collections, provide scholars (and others) with opportunities to develop research on this topic and learn new facts about this page in history. Photography has long since acquired the status of a significant historical and cultural source. The photographs in this book are primarily an informative retelling of the life of Lviv residents in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The recovered photographs by known and unknown photographers (professionals and amateurs) reflect changes in city life, elections to local governments, patriotic and protest demonstrations, and the construction of cultural, industrial, and public facilities important to the city. The photographs did not ignore cultural and artistic events, the emergence of technical innovations, the formation of the first sports clubs, and at the same time, all the everyday life that interested the citizens: disasters and destruction of buildings, fires, and floods, criminal chronicles, etc.
