Provenance of the Judaica in Museum Collections in Ukraine: Lviv`s case.

In interwar period in lviv and region had took place few private and community initiatives concerned to preservation, conservation, and description of objects of Jewish cultural heritage. As a result, two exhibitions dedicated to Jewish culture had been opened before 1939. Forced nationalization in Soviet period, mass confiscations and physical destruction either objects or its owners by the Nazi, totally changed a situation with Jewish Cultural Heritage in the Western Ukraine. Circumstances of the WWII made the issue of the provenance of Jewish collections in museums in the postwar Soviet period and, in some cases, with legal ownership on objects in contemporary period, quite complicated. Lack of interest to the Jewish Heritage in Soviet period beside with shortage of specialists in Oriental studies had caused a gap in the investigations of the Jewish material culture in general and, particularly, in history of collections. In the period of independent Ukraine bunch of remarkable articles concerned to the history of some collections or single artifacts. This article is an attempt to reconstruct traces of Jewish collections and artifacts in the Lviv after the WWII.