JUDAICA OF 19TH - THE FIRST THIRD OF THE 20TH CENTURY: NON-PRECIOUS METALS AND DIFFERENT GROUPS OF THE COLLECTION OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF UKRAINIAN HISTORY

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to highlight results of the research of the collection of the National Museum of Ukrainian History on the theme ‘Judaica’: ‘rarities of rites and the daily life of the Jewish community of Ukraine in 19th – the first third of the 20th century’. The introduction into the scholarship of the information about the collection, which consists of numerous museum objects from synagogues in the some storage groups of the collection, including ‘Metals’ (non-precious metals), is one of the key tasks of the article. The first study of the collection that has been accumulated in the National Museum of Ukrainian History from the 1930s and has significant exposition and research perspectives is among main results in the article.
There are some practical achievements of the proposed research: spreading the knowledge about the collection of the National Museum of Ukrainian History among scholars; intensive study of the so-called museum ‘Retro-base’; summarizing the information about a prominent museum collection, which reflects the history of the Jewish community of Ukraine; accumulation of examples of ‘(re)attribution’ and ‘additional attribution’ of museum objects in order to introduce the proposed definitions into the theory of museology.
Key words: Judaica, non-precious metals, (re)attribution, additional attribution, Mendele Moikher Sforim, Retro base of the NMUH