Great Synagogue of the Old Town in Iziaslav
Object Detail
Building Date
Late 16th - early 17th century
Synagogue active dates
Until 1930 (?)
Reconstruction Dates
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Condition
Present Usage
Factory
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Like in some other places of Volhynia and Podolia, the Jews of Iziaslav told that “about 600 years ago, children played on the top of the mountain in the Old Town, and when they dug, they found the Old [i.e., the Great] Synagogue; it was then repaired, improved, and rebuilt.” (Israel Fogel, “Zaslav (Iziaslavl),” Yalkut vohlin 7 (1947): 6).
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Significance Rating
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
D (Very bad)
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);
Yulii Lifshits, "Dve neizvestnye kollektsii po istorii material'noi kul'tury evreev Vostochnoi Evropy," in: V.A.Dymshitz (ed.), Istoriia evreev na Ukraine i v Belorussii: ekspeditsii, pamiatniki, nakhodki (=Trudy po iudaike, issue 2) (St. Petersburg, 1994), ill. on p. 157;
Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 4 - 2000, p. 503;
Photographs for the "Album of Jewish Artistic Antiquities", catalogue, text by Alla Sokolova (St. Petersburg: Center "Petersburg Judaica", 2007), vol. 1, ill. 18-20;
Kravtsov, Sergey and Vladimir Levin. Synagogues in Ukraine: Volhynia (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center and the Center for Jewish Art, 2017)
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
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
2011
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 50.124161, 26.812002