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Great Synagogue in Rivne
Object Detail

Building Date
1840-1874

Synagogue active dates
Closed 1959

Reconstruction Dates
After 1960

Architect/ Maker

Community

Location

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Sport facility

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
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography
CJA documentation; Shmuel Pisyuk, "Troyer-akademies in rovne", Yalkut vohlin: osef zikhronot ute'udot, issue 22 (elul 1967), pp. 21-22 with ill.; Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and mass grave sites in Ukraine. United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad (Washington D.C., 2005); Yantovskii, Shimon, Sud'by evreiskikh obshchin i ikh sinagog, SSSR, 1976-1987 (Jerusalem, 2003), ills on p. 399; Vladimir Likhodedov, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ill. 250-251 on p. 130-131; Zvi Gitelman, A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present (2002), ill. on p. 143 (int) = Zvi Gitelman, A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present (New York, 1988), p. 222; Evreiskii mir v pochtovykh otkrytkakh (Moscow, 2002), ill. on p. 72; Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow) - internet; E.I.Melamed, Dokumenty po istorii i kul'ture evreev v regional'nykh arkhivakh Ukrainy. Putevoditel'. Volynskaia, Zhitomirskaia, Rovenskaia, Cherkasskaia oblasti (Kiev, 2009), p. 260, 277; State Archives of Rivne Region, f. 30, op. 32, d. 86, fol. 26, 28; State Archives of Rivne Region, f. 30, op. 26, d. 35, fol. 23; State Archives of Rivne Region, f. 33, op. 1, d. 21006 (on scandals); State Archives of Rivne Region, f. R-204, op. 12, d. 73; Yalkut Vohlin, issue 22 (1967), ill. on p. 21; Mordechai Altshuler, Yahadut ba-makhbesh ha-sovyeti: bein dat le-zahut yehudit be-vrit ha-mo’atsot, 1941–1964 (Jerusalem, 2008), p. 463; State Archives of Zhitomyr Region, col. 67, inv. 2, file 1094, fol. 82-85 (microfilm in CAHJP, HM2/9341.11)

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Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photograph Date
1995

Remarks

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