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Great Synagogue in Pidhaitsi
Object Detail

Building Date
16?? (before 1648)

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Stone

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Abandoned

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Carved inscription and spandrils above the entrance arch.


Urban significance
Part of synagogue compound (shulhoyf)

Significance Rating
4 (International)

Condition of Building Fabric
D (Very bad)

Bibliography

Sergey Kravtsov, “Gothic Survival in Synagogue Architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries in Volhynia, Ruthenia and Podolia,” Architectura. Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Baukunst/ Journal of the History of Architecture, vol. 1 (2005): 69–94, esp. 70;

Sergey Kravtsov, “Gothic Survival in Synagogues of Eastern Europe,” in Jewish Architecture in Europe, ed. Aliza Cohen-Mushlin and Harmen H. Thies (Petersberg, 2010), 101–107;

CJA documentation;

Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), ill. 314;

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. 26 with ill.;

Vladimir Likhodedov, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ill. 248-249 on p. 129-130;

Tadeusz Rolke, Simon Schama, Tu byliśmy: Ostatnie ślady zaginionej kultury (Berlin-Warszawa, 2008), p. 81;

Pinkas hakehilot: Polin, vol. 2: Galitsiya Hamizrahit (Jerusalem, 1980), p. 410;

Stepan Kolodnyts'kyi, Pidhaitsy (Pidhaitsy, 2005), ill. on p. 16 (ext. and int);

Sefer Podhaytse, ed. M.Sh. Gashuri (Tel Aviv, 1972), p. 155.


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Photographer
Photograph Date
2010

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