Beit Midrash in Illintsi
Object Detail
Building Date
1900?
Synagogue active dates
Until 1930 (?)
Reconstruction Dates
circa 2000 (bought by the head of the local Jewish community, under reconstruction)
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
The synagogue was closed around 1930. During the Soviet regime, it functioned as a grain mill.
Around 2020, Alik Lekhtzer, the head of the local community, bought the building of the former synagogue and started repairs.
During the repair works in 2023-2024, murals were found on the walls. The murals are in bad condition. The images published by Vitalii Kamozin, the COO of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine (UJCU)on Jewish Heritage Europe (on Facebook and Jewish Heritage Europe) show several scenes, like the Sacrifice of Isaac, musical instruments hanging on trees as an illustration of Psalm 137, tablets of Ten Commandments.
Condition
Present Usage
Under reconstruction
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Murals
Urban significance
Part of shulhoyf
Significance Rating
2 (Regional)
Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)
Bibliography
CJA documentation;
Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 4 - 2000, p. 507
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)
"Ukraine: Colourful wall paintings have been discovered in the one-time Beit Midrash in Illintsi, western Ukraine,"
Jewish Heritage Europe, https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2024/06/19/ukraine-murals/.
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Eva Maria Kraiss
Photographer
Photograph Date
2019
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 49.107784, 29.203520