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Rosh Pina (now Beit Yaakov) Synagogue in Homel
Object Detail

Building Date
1895

Synagogue active dates
Until 1928, returned 1992

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Synagogue

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

http://globus.tut.by/gomel/sinag_gallery.htm

Beizer, Michael, Our Legacy: The CIS Synagogues, Past and Present (Moscow-Jerusalem: Gesharim - Mosty Kultury, 2002), ill. on p. 31 (from newspaper Bednota, 24 August 1928), p. 56;

Mikhail Kheifets, "Evreiskoe nasledie Belorussii," in: V.A.Dymshitz (ed.), Istoriia evreev na Ukraine i v Belorussii: ekspeditsii, pamiatniki, nakhodki (=Trudy po iudaike, issue 2) (St. Petersburg, 1994), pp. 44-52, p. 47;

Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow),, vol. 4, p. 328;

Evreiskii mir v pochtovykh otkrytkakh (Moscow, 2002), ill. on p. 71;

Niunkaitė-Račiūnnienė, Aistė, Lietuvos žydų tradicinio meno ir simbolių pasaulis: Atvaizdai, vaizdiniai ir tekstai (Vilnius, 2011)., ill. 145;

Gross Collection;


Short Name
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Volume
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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2005

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