From the square starts Sianska Street which leads to the place with the suburb synagogue. Its first building on the crossing of Sianska and Stara Streets was wooden (today it’s a part of ‘Dobrobut’ market). In 1632 it was rebuilt in stone. The synagogue was completely destroyed by the Nazis in autumn, 1941.
Right on the opposite side on the wall of the house No. 4 on Sianska Street you can see a memorial plaque. It tells about another synagogue ‘Hasidic Shul’ which was open from 1791 to 1941 and was the first synagogue that didn’t depend on the local Jewish community – qahal.
Hasidism, as a new trend in Judaism, appeared in the middle of the 18th century and not at once became popular, besides that it was strongly opposed by other rabbis. Since 1772 and up to 1784 the followers of Hasidism were repeatedly excommunicated by rabbis (herem) and that’s why they began to build their own synagogues which were called the ‘klotz’ or ‘shulom’ depending on the direction and the size of Hasidic movement. The first such klotz was a ‘Hasidim Shul’ Lviv synagogue. The building was damaged very much after the massacre in 1918 and completely destroyed by the Nazis in the World War II.
Since the mid-nineteenth century there were positive changes in the attitude to the Hasidism followers in Lviv. A new movement called ‘Hidushim’ (novators) was organized among the Hasids of Galicia. They built a synagogue Talmud-Torah (religious school for boys) in 1840. And beside the synagogue ‘Jacob Glanzer Shul’ was built on the money of Lviv merchant and philanthropist Jacob Glanzer in 1842. During the war Nazis closed the temple and used it as a storehouse. In the postwar period the activities of the Jewish community were regulated by the Soviets and only one synagogue ‘Jacob Glanzer Shul’ was functioning in the city. In 1962, after the death of the last rabbi, the synagogue was closed under a false pretext. After Ukraine became independent in 1991 the Jewish organization named after Sholem Aleichem began to work here
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From the square starts Sianska Street which leads to the place with the suburb synagogue. Its first building on the crossing of Sianska and Stara Streets was wooden (today it’s a part of ‘Dobrobut’ market). In 1632 it was rebuilt in stone. The synagogue was completely destroyed by the Nazis in autumn, 1941.
Right on the opposite side on the wall of the house No. 4 on Sianska Street you can see a memorial plaque. It tells about another synagogue ‘Hasidic Shul’ which was open from 1791 to 1941 and was the first synagogue that didn’t depend on the local Jewish community – qahal.
Hasidism, as a new trend in Judaism, appeared in the middle of the 18th century and not at once became popular, besides that it was strongly opposed by other rabbis. Since 1772 and up to 1784 the followers of Hasidism were repeatedly excommunicated by rabbis (herem) and that’s why they began to build their own synagogues which were called the ‘klotz’ or ‘shulom’ depending on the direction and the size of Hasidic movement. The first such klotz was a ‘Hasidim Shul’ Lviv synagogue. The building was damaged very much after the massacre in 1918 and completely destroyed by the Nazis in the World War II.
Since the mid-nineteenth century there were positive changes in the attitude to the Hasidism followers in Lviv. A new movement called ‘Hidushim’ (novators) was organized among the Hasids of Galicia. They built a synagogue Talmud-Torah (religious school for boys) in 1840. And beside the synagogue ‘Jacob Glanzer Shul’ was built on the money of Lviv merchant and philanthropist Jacob Glanzer in 1842. During the war Nazis closed the temple and used it as a storehouse. In the postwar period the activities of the Jewish community were regulated by the Soviets and only one synagogue ‘Jacob Glanzer Shul’ was functioning in the city. In 1962, after the death of the last rabbi, the synagogue was closed under a false pretext. After Ukraine became independent in 1991 the Jewish organization named after Sholem Aleichem began to work here