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Jewish Identities in Synagogue Architecture of Galicia and Bukovina
by Dr. Sergey R. Kravtsov

Editor’s Note: The collaboration between Sergey Kravtsov and Miriam Weiner dates back to 2003 when they first met in the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv. To see some of Sergey’s synagogue and cemetery photos, see below.

The following article originally appeared in Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, 6 (2010), 81–100, and appears here with permission of the publisher.

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Sergey Kravstov, 1993

Sergey R. Kravtsov
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine, Lviv
© Photo by Miriam Weiner, 1993

Bolekhiv (Bolekhov) Jewish Cemetery at grave of Dov Bolechower, 2008

Dr. Sergey R. Kravtsov & Ruth Ellen Gruber
Bolekhiv (Bolekhov) Jewish Cemetery
At grave of Dov Bolechower
© Photo by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, 2008

Kraftsov at synagogue, 2004, Laukuva, Lithuania

Dr. Sergey R. Kraftsov photographing wooden synagogue
in Laukuva, Lithuania
Photo by Zoya Arshavsky, 2004, © CJA Archives

Beit Tfila Benyamin, Chernivtsi (Czernowitz), Ukraine, 2004

Beit Tfila Benyamin, Chernivtsi (Czernowitz), Ukraine
© Photo by Sergey Kravtsov, 2004

Kraftsov Golden Rose Synagogue, Lviv, 2006

Turei Zahav (Golden Rose) Synagogue, Lviv, Ukraine
Photo by Sergey Kravtsov, 2006, © CJA Archives

Kraftsov Sobieski Shul, Zhovkva, Ukraine, 2006

Great Synagogue, Brody, Ukraine, 2006

The Habad Synagogue, Subate, Latvia, 2006

Synagogue Interior, Berdychiv, Ukraine, 2006

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