Synagogue of Lazar Brodsky in Kyiv
Object Detail
Building Date
1897-1898
Synagogue active dates
Until 1926, from 1997
Reconstruction Dates
2000 (Yu. Paskevich)
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Closed 1926, turned into club, later - youth theater, returned in 1992-1997, in 2000 reconstructed by arch. Yu. Paskevich.
Condition
Present Usage
Synagogue
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
A rare example of a synagogue in Neo-Russian style.
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Significance Rating
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)
Bibliography
Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and mass grave sites in Ukraine. United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad (Washington D.C., 2005).
Beizer, pp. 124-128 with ills.;
REE, vol. 5, p. 78, 82, ill. on p. 83;
Gershuni, p. 64;
EE, vol. 9, ill. after p. 519;
Natan Meir, "Mnogolikost' evreiskoi blagotvoritel'nosti v Kieve, 1859-1914 gg.," Ab Imperio, 2003, no. 4, pp. 185-215 (p. 196-7);
Natan M. Meir, Kiev, Jewish Metropolis: A History, 1859-1914 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2010), p. 170-173;
Likhodedov-2007, ills. 209-212 on pp. 110-111;
Mikhailo Kal'nyts'kyj, Evrejs'ki adresy Kyeva / Jewish Addresses of Kiev (Kiev, 2008) with ill;
Khiterer-1999, ill. After p. 156;
Beizer, Michael. Our Legacy: The CIS Synagogues, Past and Present (Moscow-Jerusalem: Gesharim - Mosty Kultury, 2002), pp. 124-128 with ills.
Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and Mass Grave Sites in Ukraine (Washington, DC: U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, 2005), https://jewishheritageguide.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/uscpaha_jewish_survey_ukraine_2005.pdf (accessed November 30, 2021)
Kal'nyts'kyj, Mikhailo. Evrejs'ki adresy Kyeva / Jewish Addresses of Kiev (Kiev, 2008).
Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia, vols 4 and 5 (Moscow, 2000, 2004)
Beizer, Michael. Our Legacy: The CIS Synagogues, Past and Present (Moscow-Jerusalem: Gesharim - Mosty Kultury, 2002), pp. 124-128 with ills.
Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and Mass Grave Sites in Ukraine (Washington, DC: U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, 2005), https://jewishheritageguide.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/uscpaha_jewish_survey_ukraine_2005.pdf (accessed November 30, 2021)
Kal'nyts'kyj, Mikhailo. Evrejs'ki adresy Kyeva / Jewish Addresses of Kiev (Kiev, 2008).
Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia, vols 4 and 5 (Moscow, 2000, 2004)
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
2011
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 50.438782, 30.520330