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Object Alone
Tempel in Chernivtsi
Object Detail

Building Date
1873-1878

Synagogue active dates
until WWII

Reconstruction Dates
1950s

Community

Location
Ukraine | Chernivetska obl. | Chernivtsi (Чернівці)
| 10 Universytets'ka St. (former Riazanskaia St.)

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Cinema

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
C (Poor)

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); Eleonora Bergman, Nurt mauretański w architekturze synagog Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w XIX i na początku XX wieku (Warszawa, 2004), ills. 211-212; Julian Zacharewicz, "Israelitischer Tempel in Czernowitz," Allgemeine Bauzeitung, 1882 with plans; Yantovskii, Shimon, Sud'by evreiskikh obshchin i ikh sinagog, SSSR, 1976-1987 (Jerusalem, 2003), ills on p. 401-2; Vladimir Likhodedov, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ills. 277-288 on pp. 144-149; Hugo Gold (ed.), Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina, 2 vols (Tel Aviv, 1958-1962), vol. 2, ill. on the last page (burnt in 1941); Hugo Gold (ed.), Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina, 2 vols (Tel Aviv, 1958-1962), vol. 1, ill. on Tafel 5; Yad Va-Shem Archives - archives of images, №60665 (int destroyed), №59218, №25987; Evrejs'ke naselennia na Bukovyni, pp. 152-160 (statute), 180; http://yivo1000towns.cjh.org/frame_viewer.asp?PictureSetID=2667&PictureSetIndex=68&ImageID=49801 http://search.cjh.org/permalink/f/d40h2n/cjh_digitool300692

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Full Name
Volume
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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2004

Remarks

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