The Faina Petryakova Scientific Center for Judaica and Jewish Art

The Faina Petryakova Science Center for Judaica and Jewish Art has been founded on March 23, 2005. The Center is based in Lviv, Ukraine. It has been set up to commemorate the life of Faina Petryakova, a distinguished professor of the Lviv Academy of Arts, recognized figure in the field of ethnography in Ukraine and beyond, and a senior researcher of the Insitute of Ethnography at the Lviv branch office of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Doctor Petryakova passed away in 2002, leaving behind a remarkable scientific legacy worthy of her stature as a renowned scholar in such fields as Ukrainian glass, porcelain, ceramics and Ukrainian Judaica. The Center has started to attract a lot of public interest in the local community due to its large repository of Judaica items and other rarely-found pieces of traditional Ukrainian glass artwork.
Objectives
The Petryakova Center strives to renew scholarly interest toward the history and culture of Ukrainian Jews, particularly Jews of Halychyna (Galicia), at the regional, national, and international levels. The Center works actively to support research in various areas of Jewish culture, to enable the development of a durable scientific institution charged with the task of preserving, researching and promoting the historical and cultural heritage of the Ukrainian Jewry. The Petryakova Center carries out projects that seek to revive and preserve the historical and cultural heritage of the Jewish people in Ukraine, as an integral part of the Ukrainian and world heritage. Through its daily work the Center makes an important contribution to the existing scholarship on Jewish-Ukrainian relations by filling in many gaps in an area that up until now has remain dramatically under-examined.
Location
The Petryakova Center is headquartered in an apartment, now a memorial apartment and museum, where Doctor Faina Petryakova used to live, on 14 Mendeleeva Street in Lviv, Ukraine. On February 11, 2011, the apartment was visited by the mayor of Lviv, who publicly supported the future opening of a memorial apartment-based museum.
Publications
They have held two conferences:.
*2007 conference, "Preservation of Jewish historical and cultural heritage as part of Ukrainian and world culture: the legal, historical, art museum and Aspects" and (12-14 November 2007),
*2008 conference "Ukraine-Jewish relations : cultural, historical, sociological aspects "(October 27-28, 2008).
They have also published a project by N. Levkovich on " Art ceramics of the Jewish community of Galicia XIX XX centuries."

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