VOLPA Shtetle and the Wooden Synagogue

Click on the photo for a larger version

340kB
A unique aerial view of the shtetle Volpa, 1918. Probably a postcard. Notice the shul hovering above all else, on the left	The market in Volpa, circa 1930


Volpa shul, by Arik Koren, an Israeli artist, 2002. Arik left the village at the age of six.	Volpa village center and well, by Arik Koren, an Israeli artist, 2002. Arik left the village at the age of six.

	400kB
Volpa shul and Chasidim, painting (color) by Nota Koslowsky, 1920.	A wedding in the Volpa shul, painting (color)by Nota Koslowsky, 1920.


A drawing of the VOLPA Wooden Synagogue built in 1643 and put ablaze by the Nazis in 1941	An outside view of the wooden synagogue


Volpa Wooden Synagogue- Side View	Volpa Wooden Synagogue- village view


Volpa Wooden Synagogue- Interior View The beautifully carved Bimah, which was the work of an anonymous Jewish artist of the 17th century.	Volpa Wooden Synagogue- Interior View (Aron Hakodesh Detailed)


Volpa Wooden Synagogue- Inside View (Aron Hakodesh)	Volpa Wooden Synagogue- Inside View (Aron Hakodesh)


Volpa Wooden Synagogue- Cross Section	Volpa Wooden Synagogue- candelabra


Hand written page from the prayers for Simchat Torah.	A Prayer for the Well Being of the Caesar Alexander Alexandrovitch

Graduate school (230k)

The Volpa Jewish School, circa 1935.

Teacher sitting (from right): Zalman Kaplan, Rabbi of Volpa Meir Gershon, Mordechai Segal, Yakov Pett.

A graduating class of the Mendele school, Bialistok. Top, Left: Note Koslowski, art instructor.

Photographs from the collection of Marlene Bishow, images purchased from Avotaynu.
Drawing with permission of Arik Koren, Kfar Saba, Israel
Painting with permission of Susan Pearlman, USA

Back to VOLPA Main Page