Great Maharsha Synagogue: what Wikipedia removed
The Great Maharsha Synagogue in Ostroh, Ukraine, a building damaged twice by violence against Jews. As of October 6 2023 the opening said the synagogue “was damaged during the Khmelnytsky massacres and centuries later, once again, during the Holocaust.” Today the word appears 0 times in the opening, though it survives once in the body. A reader today does not learn from the opening that the building was damaged during the Khmelnytsky massacres, the seventeenth century mass killing of Jews.
The word “massacre” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 6 October 2023. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| massacre | 1 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The detail that the synagogue was damaged during the Khmelnytsky massacres, a seventeenth century mass killing of Jews, left the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”6 October 2023 (revision 1081289317):
The Great Maharsha Synagogue ( Template:Lang-he ) was a synagogue in Ostroh , named after Rabbi Shmuel Eidels . It was built after 1627 under a restriction “prohibiting the erection of synagogues taller than churches.” The synagogue was damaged during the Khmelnytsky massacres and centuries later, once again, during the Holocaust. It was used as a warehouse during the Soviet era , and later abandoned. Reconstruction of the ruins began in 2016 under the leadership of Hryhoriy Arshynov . ^ Cite error: The named reference HSE was invoked but never defined (see the help page ). ^ Cite error: The named reference JHE was invoked but never defined (see the help page ). ^ Cite error: The named refer…
2025 (revision 1295075779):
Former synagogue in Ostroh, Ukraine The Great Maharsha Synagogue ( Hebrew : בית הכנסת המהרש״א ; Ukrainian : Велика синагога , romanized : Velyka synahoha ) is a former Jewish synagogue , located in Ostroh , in the Rivne Oblast of Ukraine . With a congregation established in 1550s, the synagogue was completed in the 1620s in what was, at the thime, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , with the building named in honour of Rabbi Shmuel Eidels . Abandoned in the 1940s, the synagogue was partially destroyed by the Nazis during World War II , and subsequently used by Soviet authorities as a warehouse. Again abandoned, the building fell into disrepair. Restoration efforts commenced in 2016 to prese…
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