Great Synagogue in Zhovkva
Object Detail
Building Date
1692
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Condition
Present Usage
Under reconstruction
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Construction of the synagogue was sponsored by Polis king John III Sobieski, and hence it is known as Sobieski Shul.
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Brick and stucco Torah ark.
Urban significance
Part of Jewish quarter
Significance Rating
4 (International)
Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)
Bibliography
CJA documentation;
Zoya Yargina, Wooden Synagogues (Moscow, [1993]), p. 49 ill. 43;
Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), pp. 290-4 with ills. and ills. 302-4, 309, 313;
Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and mass grave sites in Ukraine. United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad (Washington D.C., 2005);
Boris Khaimovich, "Istoriko-etnographicheskie ekspeditsii Peterburgskogo evreiskogo universiteta," in: V.A.Dymshitz (ed.), Istoriia evreev na Ukraine i v Belorussii: ekspeditsii, pamiatniki, nakhodki (=Trudy po iudaike, issue 2) (St. Petersburg, 1994), p. 27-8 with ill.;
Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 4 - 2000, p. 451 with ill.;
Pinkas hakehilot: Polin, vol. 2: Galitsiya Hamizrahit (Jerusalem, 1980), 207, ill. after p. 208;
Vladimir Likhodedov, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ills. 198-201 on p. 104-106;
Tadeusz Rolke, Simon Schama, Tu byliśmy: Ostatnie ślady zaginionej kultury (Berlin-Warszawa, 2008), p. 60;
Ulrich von Verdum, “Shchodennyk podorozhi...,” trans. Ivan Svarnyk, Zhovten’ 9 (467), 10 (468) (1983), p. 91
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
1993
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 50.057240, 23.972609