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Object Alone
Starovilska Prayer House in Zhytomyr
Object Detail

Building Date
19??

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Dwelling

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance

Significance Rating
1 (Local)

Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)

Bibliography
CJA documentation; Israel Tayar, Sinagoga - razgromlennaia, no ne pokorionnaia (Jerusalem, 1987), ill. after p. 68; Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and mass grave sites in Ukraine. United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad (Washington D.C., 2005); Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 4 - 2000, p. 447-448 with ill.; Yantovskii, Shimon, Sud'by evreiskikh obshchin i ikh sinagog, SSSR, 1976-1987 (Jerusalem, 2003), ills on p. 351; David E. Fishman, “‘To Our Brethren Abroad’: Letters and Reports by Soviet Rabbis, 1925–1930,” Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe 1–2(54–55)(2005), p. 155
Kravtsov, Sergey and Vladimir Levin. Synagogues in Ukraine: Volhynia (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center and the Center for Jewish Art, 2017)

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
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Biography

Photograph Date
1998

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