Old Wooden Synagogues in Polish Lithuania

Illustration of wooden building.
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Drawing of a wooden synagogue from Maximilian Syrkin’s 1910 article, “Drevnie derevyannye sinagogi v Pol’she i Litve” (Old Wooden Synagogues in Polish Lithuania). Wooden synagogues were a common form of vernacular architecture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth beginning in the sixteenth century. Almost all of them were destroyed in World War II.

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