The Great Maharsha Synagogue in Ostroh, Ukraine, a building damaged twice by violence against Jews. As of October 6 2023 the opening said the synagogue "was damaged during the Khmelnytsky massacres and centuries later, once again, during the Holocaust." Today the word appears 0 times in the opening, though it survives once in the body. A reader today does not learn from the opening that the building was damaged during the Khmelnytsky massacres, the seventeenth century mass killing of Jews.
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Great Maharsha Synagogue ( ) was a synagogue in Ostroh , named after Rabbi Shmuel Eidels . It was built after 1627 under a restriction "prohibiting the erection of synagogues taller than churches." The synagogue was damaged during the Khmelnytsky massacres and centuries later, once again, during the Holocaust. It was used as a warehouse during the Soviet era , and later abandoned. Reconstruction of the ruins began in 2016 under the leadership of Hryhoriy Arshynov .1
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Former synagogue in Ostroh, Ukraine The Great Maharsha Synagogue ( Hebrew : בית הכנסת המהרש״א ; Ukrainian : Велика синагога , romanized : Velyka synahoha ) is a former Jewish synagogue , located in Ostroh , in the Rivne Oblast of Ukraine .With a congregation established in 1550s, the synagogue was completed in the 1620s in what was, at the thime, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , with the building named in honour of Rabbi Shmuel Eidels .Abandoned in the 1940s, the synagogue was partially destroyed by the Nazis during World War II , and subsequently used by Soviet authorities as a warehouse.Again abandoned, the building fell into disrepair.Restoration efforts commenced in 2016 to preserve the former synagogue as a Jewish history museum .Historical Synagogues of Europe .Hebrew University of Jerusalem .Foundation for Jewish Heritage . n.d .
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synagogue in ostroh
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former jewish synagogue
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