Main Synagogue in Vinnitsa
The Main Synagogue in Vinnitsa is also called the Lifszca synagogue (Главная синагога, Синагога Лифшица) - a Jewish synagogue located in the Vineyard at ul. Soborna 62.
It was built in 1897 from the means of the vineyard merchant Lifszyc. Until the outbreak of the October Revolution was the main synagogue of Vinnitsa. Devotions took place here until the 1930s, when the building was closed and transformed into a club of them. Joseph Stalin. During the Second World War garments confiscated from Jewish winemakers were collected here.
After 1945 there was a philharmonic in the building. The building of the synagogue was returned to the Jewish community in 1992, after which it underwent a thorough refurbishment with the efforts of Rabbi Lejblah Surkis and Isaac Nowosielecki from JDC.
On the night of May 18th, 2005, on the walls of the synagogue, swastikas and anti-Semitic inscriptions appeared - it was the first such event in a decade-long history of the municipality after 1991.
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