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Great Synagogue in Drohobych
Object Detail

Building Date
1844-1863

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
ca. 1928 (by Józef Awin); 2016

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Synagogue

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance
Part of Jewish quarter

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)

Bibliography
CJA documentation; Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and mass grave sites in Ukraine. United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad (Washington D.C., 2005); Meir Wunder, Benjamin Lukin, Boris Khaimovich, Grandeur and Glory: Remnants of Jewish Art in Galicia, vol. 1: Eastern Galicia, A-O (Jerusalem, 2005), p. 70 with ills.; Pinkas hakehilot: Polin, vol. 2: Galitsiya Hamizrahit (Jerusalem, 1980), p. 164; Sefer zikaron le-drohobits, borisov ve-ha-svivah, edited by N.M.Gelber (Tel Aviv, 1959), pp. 89, 95, ills. Plate VII; Evreiskaia Entsiklopediia, 16 vols. (St. Petersburg, 1908-1913), vol. 7, p. 345-346 with ill.; Iosif Gelston, "Evreis'ki kul'tobi sporudy Drohobycha" in: Sakral'ne mistetstvo Boikivshchyny: naukovi chytannia pam'iati Mikhaila Dragana (Drohobych, 1997), p. 22-23, ill. on p. 21; Mścisław Mściwujewski, Królewskie wolne miasto Drohobycz (Lwów-Drohobycz, 1929), p. 23-24; Iosif Gel'ston, "Opis' pamiatnikov evreiskoi istorii i kul'tury v g. Drogobyche", Evreis'ka istoriia ta kul'tura v Ukraini, materialy konferentsii, Kyiv, 21-22 serpnia 1995 (Kyiv, 1996), p. 175; Iosif Gel'ston, "Arkhitekturnye osobennosti planirovok sinagog Drogobycha", Evreis'ka istoriia ta kul'tura v Ukraini, materialy konferentsii, Kyiv, 2-5 veresnia 1996 (Kyiv, 1997), p. 148; Yantovskii, Shimon, Sud'by evreiskikh obshchin i ikh sinagog, SSSR, 1976-1987 (Jerusalem, 2003), ills on p. 388; Sprawozdanie Kuratorjum Opieki nad Zabytkami Sztuki Żydowskiej przy Żydowskiej Gminie Wyznaniowej we Lwowie (Lwów, 1928), p. 16. Sergey Kravtsov, “Jewish Identities in Synagogue Architecture of Galicia and Bukovina,” Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art 6 (2010), p. 89–90.

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2021

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