Great Synagogue (Butschatsch)

Postcard with the synagogue in Butschatsch (around 1900), right side

Town hall with tower in the center of the picture, right next to it the synagogue, in the background the castle ruins in Butschatsch

The Great Synagogue ( Yiddish Groyse Schul ) in Butschatsch , a city in Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine , was built in 1728.

The synagogue with arched windows was damaged in World War II and demolished in the second half of the 1940s (other sources after 1950).

See also

• List of synagogues in Ukraine
• Jewish community of Butschatsch
• Jewish cemetery (Butschatsch)

literature

• Omer Bartov : Buczacz. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 1: A-Cl. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-476-02501-2 , pp. 450–455.

Web links

Commons : Great Synagogue (Butschatsch)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Omer Bartov : Bili pljamy ta Tschorni diry: mynule ta ssjohodennja Schidnoji Haltsychyny. In: Shoah w Ukrajini: istorija, swidtschennja, uwitschnennja. Duch i litera, Tkuma, Kyjiw 2015, ISBN 978-966-378-194-5 , p. 453 (Ukrainian); Translation of the edition: The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization , ed. by Ray Brandon u. Wendy Lower, 2008, ISBN 978-0-253-00159-7 (English).

Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '44.3 "  N , 25 ° 23' 38.8"  E