Obj. ID: 14986 Great Synagogue in Lutsk, Ukraine
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A lagend about a righteaous woman who sacrificed herself to return the synagogue to the community.
The only synagogue defined as a fortification in its construction permission of 1626.
The earliest synagogue with so-called bimah-support in the historical region of Volhynia.
CJA documentation; Rostislav Metel'nits'kyi, Deiaki storinky evreis'koi zabudovy Luts'ka (Kyiv, 2001), pp. 85-133;
Silvie Bordish-Goldberg, "Di groyse lutsker shul (a blat fun pinkos hakehile)", Yalkut vohlin: osef zikhronot ute'udot, issue 20 (Heshvan 1966);
Rachel Wischnitzer, From Dura to Rembrant: Studies in Jewish Art (Jerusalem, 1990), pp. 26-28 with ill;
Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), pp. 188-138 with ills. and ills. 47, 54, 69, 78-79, 91-2;
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. 29;
Evreiskaia Entsiklopediia, 16 vols. (St. Petersburg, 1908-1913), vol. 14, p. 268 with ill.;
Yantovskii, Shimon, Sud'by evreiskikh obshchin i ikh sinagog, SSSR, 1976-1987 (Jerusalem, 2003), ills on p. 390;
Michael Beizer, Our Legacy: The CIS synagogues, Past and Present (Moscow-Jerusalem. 2002), ill. on p. 15;
Vladimir Likhodedov, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ills. 229-230 on p. 120;
Photographs for the "Album of Jewish Artistic Antiquities", catalogue, text by Alla Sokolova (St. Petersburg: Center "Petersburg Judaica", 2007), vol. 1, ill. 5-6;
Hamelitz, no. 90, 26.04(08.05).1898, p. 7;
Yalkut Vohlin, vol. 1, issue 2 (1945), ill. on p. 5;
Yalkut Vohlin, issue 20 (1966), pp. 22-23;
https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2021/04/19/ukraine-great-synagogue-in-lutsk/
Kravtsov, Sergey and Vladimir Levin. Synagogues in Ukraine: Volhynia (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center and the Center for Jewish Art, 2017)