Jamming with the "Shalom" klezmer band of Kyiv A synagogue in Berdichev (1890) In front of the entry to the Berdichev synagogoue Inside the synagogue: Aron ha-Kodesh (as seen from bima) A message posted on one of the synagogue''s window warns from talking during the T''fila (prayer) and Torah reading. Left to right: Dr.Gregory Kazovsky, Dr.Larisa Finkelshtein, reb Efraim (community leader), and Dr.Viktoria Mochalova Road sign pointing at Nemyriv (Nemirov), Vinnitsa region, where my Granpa was born.
A synagogue in Shargorod View from another side On the table it''s written that the synagogue was built in 1589 and is under protection of the Ukrainian state Under the Soviet rule, the synagogue was rebuilt into a winery, which saved the building from destroying Several more pictures from inside When walking across Shargorod and many other towns in that area, one may admit a speicific aesthetics of destruction...
Another proof of that... When walking across the streets of Shargorod, I got a feeling of time-machine effect Shargorod: express photo service a house #72 where no one lives In this house #70, K.Marx Str., lives one of the 78 Shargorod''s last Jews: Klara. Inside the house
Old Jewish cemetery in Shargorod Tombstones of Shargorod''s rabbis (18th cent.) Across the river, lays the new Jewish cemetery (ca.1500 matzevot) New Jewish cemetery of Shargorod panorama A plaque telling the short history of the town Medzhibozh and the ethymology of this toponyme
The group of researchers of Jewish art and Jewish painters looking around in Medzhibozh, an old Jewish shtetl with the legendary past Old palace-fortress of Medzhibozh Road - a symbol of our journey Climbing upon the fortress... A plaque in Ukrainian: It is dangerous to walk upon ruins of the castle Another view of the Medzhibozh castle A chapel in the territory of the castle
A gate with the menorah outline A former beit-hamidrash (House of studying) On this very place stood BeShT''s beit-hamidrash In Medzibozh, there is Ba''al Shem Tov Street, with plaques in Ukrainian and Hebew Another house on the BeShT street The "Palace" of Ba''al Shem Tov In this building there''s BeShT''s tomb
Inside... On the Jewish cemetery of Medzhibozh Somewhere here lies Gershele Ostropoler, famous, even semi-legendary Jewish writer A sight on the Satanov synagogue (1600) from the Jewish cementary on a hill
A panorama of Kamenets-Podilski A former synagogue-fortress of Kamenets-Podilski (at present, it is a restaurant) A fortress of Kamenets-Podilski I am playing in the devastated synagogue of Satanov playing in BESHT''s miqvah...

Seminar-plennaire across Jewish shtetls in Western Ukraine (2002)

Семинар-пленэр "Дворцы - дороги - города" (организаторы - Еврейское агентство "Сохнут", Еврейский университет в Иерусалиме). Все фото сделаны Дмитрием Слеповичем. Копирование и републикация без разрешения автора запрещены.
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