Obj. ID: 10342 Great Synagogue in Zhovkva, Ukraine
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Name/Title
Great Synagogue in Zhovkva | Unknown
Object
Object Detail
Date
1692
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction dates
Artist/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Origin
Historical Origin
Community
Location
Site
Unknown
School/Style
Period Detail
Gross Family Collection No.
Category
Material/Technique
Material Stucture
Material Decoration
Material Bonding
Material Inscription
Material Additions
Material Cloth
Material Lining
Tesserae Arrangement
Density
Colors
Construction material
Brick
Measurements
Height
Length
Width
Depth
Circumference
Thickness
Diameter
Weight
Axis
Panel Measurements
Hallmark
Iconographical Subject
Unknown |
Condition
Extant
Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
Present Usage
Under reconstruction
Present Usage Details
Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)
Architectural Significance type
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Construction of the synagogue was sponsored by Polis king John III Sobieski, and hence it is known as Sobieski Shul.
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Brick and stucco Torah ark.
Urban significance
Part of Jewish quarter
Significance Rating
4 (International)
Custom
Contents
Codicology
Scribes
Script
Number of Lines
Ruling
Pricking
Quires
Catchwords
Hebrew Numeration
Blank Leaves
Direction/Location
Façade (main)
Endivances
Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
Location of Platform
Temp: Architecture Axis
Arrangement of Seats
Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
Signature
Colophon
Scribal Notes
Watermark
Binding
Decoration Program
Summary and Remarks
History/Provenance
Main Surveys & Excavations
Bibliography
CJA documentation;
Zoya Yargina, Wooden Synagogues (Moscow, [1993]), p. 49 ill. 43;
Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), pp. 290-4 with ills. and ills. 302-4, 309, 313;
Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and mass grave sites in Ukraine. United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad (Washington D.C., 2005);
Boris Khaimovich, "Istoriko-etnographicheskie ekspeditsii Peterburgskogo evreiskogo universiteta," in: V.A.Dymshitz (ed.), Istoriia evreev na Ukraine i v Belorussii: ekspeditsii, pamiatniki, nakhodki (=Trudy po iudaike, issue 2) (St. Petersburg, 1994), p. 27-8 with ill.;
Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 4 - 2000, p. 451 with ill.;
Pinkas hakehilot: Polin, vol. 2: Galitsiya Hamizrahit (Jerusalem, 1980), 207, ill. after p. 208;
Vladimir Likhodedov, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ills. 198-201 on p. 104-106;
Tadeusz Rolke, Simon Schama, Tu byliśmy: Ostatnie ślady zaginionej kultury (Berlin-Warszawa, 2008), p. 60;
Ulrich von Verdum, “Shchodennyk podorozhi...,” trans. Ivan Svarnyk, Zhovten’ 9 (467), 10 (468) (1983), p. 91
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