In January, we posted about the recent laser scan digitalization of three synagogues in the Bukovina region of western Ukraine that are noted for their elaborate interior decoration: the Beit Tfilah Benjamin Synagogue in Chernivtsi, currently in use by the … continue reading →
The exhibition “Painted Prayers” presents the murals in synagogues of the Ukrainian Bukovina and addresses the threat and destruction of cultural assets by the war. It also documents German-Ukrainian cooperation in the preservation of Jewish cultural heritage in Ukraine. There … continue reading →
A rare wooden synagogue will be transferred from the village of Veliky Komiaty to Uzhhorod, the administrative center of the Transcarpathian region, where it will be restored and form part of the Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, an … continue reading →
The city of Chortkiv in western Ukraine has won a grant to begin restoration of what its web site called the city’s “historical pearl” — the Hasidic synagogue, or Kloyz of the Tzaddik Rabbi David Moshe Friedmann. An announcement on … continue reading →
A Russian drone attack this week damaged a synagogue building in Odesa that already was a partial ruin. According to a post on X (Twitter) by Rabbi Moshe Azman, a chief rabbi of Ukraine, the Nahalat Eliezer Synagogue in Odesa, … continue reading →
