Old Wooden Synagogues in Polish Lithuania
Maximilian Syrkin
1910
Drawing of a wooden synagogue from Maximilian Syrkin’s 1910 article, “Drevníya derevyannyye sinagogi v pol’she litve” (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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