Metadata: Collection of Photographic Materials on Jewish Architecture
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Scientific-Research Institute for the Theory and History of Architecture and City Planning
- Holding institution (official language):
- Науково-дослідний інститут теорії та історії архітектури та містобудування (НДІТІАМ)
- Postal address:
- Office 106, building 4, 6 Preobrazhenska Street, Kyiv, 03680, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (44) 249-72-49
- Web address:
- http://nditiamd.wixsite.com/site
- Email:
- nditiamd@gmail.com
- Title:
- Collection of Photographic Materials on Jewish Architecture
- Title (official language):
- Коллекция фотоматериалов «Еврейская архитектура»
- Creator/accumulator:
- Rita I. Ostrovskaia
- Date(s):
- 1991/1992
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 185 storage units
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes original photos and negatives pertaining to the history of Jewish architecture in the territory of Ukraine (1991-92), among them photographs of synagogues still in operation and former synagogues, and in particular, a cemetery synagogue in Mohyliv-Podil’s’kyi/Mogilev-Podol’skii, the Choral Synagogue in Berdychiv/Berdichev (now a factory), a synagogue in Kam’ianets’-Podil’s’kyi/Kamenets-Podol’skii (now a restaurant), and a synagogue in Sharhorod/Shargorod (now a manufacturing workshop); a photograph of a former Jewish school in Medzhybizh/Medzhibozh; depictions of matsevas (tombstones) at Jewish cemeteries in Kam’ianets’-Podil’s’kyi/Kamenets-Podol’skii, Medzhybizh/Medzhibozh, the village of Orynyn/Orinin, and Sharhorod/Shargorod; photos of the Besht burial vault in Medzhybizh/Medzhibozh and the Levi-Itskhok burial vault in Berdychiv/Berdichev, and of typical town residential structures in Tul’chyn/Tul’chin, Sharhorod/Shargorod, and elsewhere.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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In the 1990s, the photography archive of the Scientific-Research Institute for the Theory and History of Architecture and City Planning received, as a special structural unit, a collection of photographs and negatives made by the photographer Rita I. Ostrovskaia in the course of her expeditions through population centres of Ukraine that were of particular historical significance for Jews (mainly in Podolia).
A master of artistic and documentary photography, Rita Ostrovskaia was born in Kiev in 1953 and trained at the Leningrad Cinema-Photo Technicum and the journalism department of Kiev’s Taras Shevchenko State University. She has produced numerous sets of photographs recording the disappearing world of Ukraine’s Jewish towns (shtetls). She has frequently taken part in international photo exhibitions and is the author of several photo-albums. The collection includes photographs by Rita Ostrovskaia of architectural and ethnographic interest.
- Access points: locations:
- Berdichev
- Kamenets-Podol’skii
- Medzhibozh
- Mogilev-Podol’skii
- Orinin
- Podolia
- Shargorod
- Tul’chin
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- Besht
- Levi-Itskhok
- Ostrovskaia , Rita I.
- System of arrangement:
- The collection’s card inventory is systematised geographically (alphabetised by population centre). The storage units’ numbering system is continuous for the whole archive.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary