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Great Maharsha Synagogue in Ostroh
Object Detail

Building Date
1627?

Synagogue active dates
Until WWII

Reconstruction Dates
1912 (reconstruction of facades)

Architect/ Maker

Community

Location

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance
The roof of the synagogue was restored in 2016. Two gables were rebuilt, although the newly built gable of the western facade does not correspond to its original place.

Condition

Present Usage
Under reconstruction

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Maharsha


Architectural Significance: Style

Baroque


Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance

Significance Rating
4 (International)

Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)

Bibliography
CJA documentation; Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), pp. 220-3 with ills. and ill. 398; 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. 29; Pinkas hakehilot: Polin, vol. 5: Vohlin ve-polesie (Jerusalem, 1990), p. 36 with ill.; Kravtsov-2002 with ills.; Kratkaia evreiskaia entsiklopedia, 11 vols. (Jerusalem, 1976-2005), vol. 14, p. 269 with ill.; Vladimir Likhodedov, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ill. 245 on p. 128; Photographs for the "Album of Jewish Artistic Antiquities", catalogue, text by Alla Sokolova (St. Petersburg: Center "Petersburg Judaica", 2007), vol. 1, ill. 4; Evreiskii mir v pochtovykh otkrytkakh (Moscow, 2002), ill. on p. 67; Hamelits 1864, no. 36, p. 565; E.I.Melamed, Dokumenty po istorii i kul'ture evreev v regional'nykh arkhivakh Ukrainy. Putevoditel'. Volynskaia, Zhitomirskaia, Rovenskaia, Cherkasskaia oblasti (Kiev, 2009), p. 294; Yalkut Vohlin, vol. 1, issue 3 (1945), ill. on p. 7; State Archives of Zhitomyr Region, coll. 71, inv. 1, file 920, fol. 2 (microfilm in CAHJP, HM2/9540.1); http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2017/03/12/ukraine-great-maharsha-synagogue-in-ostroh-has-a-new-roof
Kravtsov, Sergey and Vladimir Levin. Synagogues in Ukraine: Volhynia (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center and the Center for Jewish Art, 2017)

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Full Name
Volume
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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2011

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