{"id":21995,"date":"2022-03-22T19:57:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T23:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/?p=21995"},"modified":"2022-03-22T19:57:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T23:57:34","slug":"synagogues-of-ukraine-past-and-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/synagogues-of-ukraine-past-and-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Synagogues of Ukraine, past and present"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/Gwozdzca-ukraine-replica.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-21996\" src=\"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/Gwozdzca-ukraine-replica-1024x708.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/Gwozdzca-ukraine-replica-1024x708.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/Gwozdzca-ukraine-replica-500x346.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/Gwozdzca-ukraine-replica.jpg 1301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0861a6;\"><strong>Photos and illustrations of Ukraine's historic synagogues provide a glimpse into Eastern European Jewish life throughout the last 500 years.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The borders of modern-day Ukraine encompass parts of what was once the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569\u20131795), the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867\u20131918), the Russian Empire (1721\u20131917) and the former Soviet Union (1922\u20131991). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/article\/history-of-the-jews-of-ukraine\/\">The history of Jews in Ukraine<\/a> goes back over 1,000 years; sources in the Cairo Geniza note a Jewish presence in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, as early as 930 CE. Throughout Ukraine\u2019s history, Jews could be found in major cities and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/article\/shtetl-in-jewish-history-and-memory\/\">shtetls<\/a> alike.<\/p>\n<p>Read More @<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/article\/synagogues-of-ukraine-past-and-present\/?utm_source=mjl_maropost&amp;utm_campaign=MJL&amp;utm_medium=email\">My Jewish Learning<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos and illustrations of Ukraine's historic synagogues provide a glimpse into Eastern European Jewish life throughout the last 500 years. The borders of modern-day Ukraine encompass parts of what was once the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569\u20131795),...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-architecture","primary-category-8","primary-category-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22001,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21995\/revisions\/22001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}