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Object Alone
Volozhin Yeshiva
Object Detail

Building Date
Last quarter of the 19th century

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1954 (inscription in the gable)

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Cultural center

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
4 (International)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography

CJA documentation

Michael Beizer, Our Legacy: The CIS synagogues, Past and Present (Moscow-Jerusalem. 2002), p. 172;

Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow, 2004), vol. 4, p. 275 with ill.;

Pinkas hakehilot: Polin, vol. 8: mehozot vilna, byalistok, novogrudek (Jerusalem, 2005), p. 292, 293, 295 with ill;

Lite, eds. Mendl Sudarski, Uriyah Katsenelnbogn and I. Kisin (New York, 1951), ill. on p. 498;

Imanuel Etkes & Shlomo Tikochinski (eds.), Yeshivot lita: pirkei zikhronot (Jerusalem, 2004)., ill. on p. 72;

Dovid Katz, Lithuanian Jewish Culture (Vilnius: Baltos Lankos, 2004), ill. on p. 164, 358;


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Photographer
Photograph Date
2007

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