How Beautiful Are Your Dwelling Places, Jacob
How Beautiful Are Your Dwelling Places, Jacob Transforming a site of perdition into a place of benediction: the new synagogue of Babyn Yar near Kiev.On September 29 and 30, 1941, more than 33,000…
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How Beautiful Are Your Dwelling Places, Jacob
Transforming a site of perdition into a place of benediction: the new synagogue of Babyn Yar near Kiev.On September 29 and 30, 1941, more than 33,000 Jewish men, women, and children were murdered in Babyn Yar, a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. In commemoration, and as an affirmation of a Jewish future, a synagogue designed in the shape of an oversized Jewish prayer book was inaugurated on the same site in May 2021. This event constituted the largest single massacre perpetrated by German troops against Jews during World War II.
This impressive movable structure was conceived by architect Manuel Herz and is decorated with murals by Ukrainian artist Galina Andrusenko.The Babyn Yar synagogue's design is rooted in a meditation on Judaism's 3,000-year-old history. When opened, the book building's inner space and its furnishings unfold. The leitmotif of this
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