Vul. Fedorova, 28 – ruins of a residential building
The townhouse number 28, called Rabynivska, was built by the Żółkiewski magnate family in the 16th century, but at the end of that century it was bought by Izrael Józefowicz, a Lviv Jew, and adapted for a yeshiva, i.e. a Talmud high school, whose rosh (rector) was scholar Yozue Falk ben Aleksander Kohen. Now this building with a rich history, an architectural monument (protection number 356), is being dismantled to build a hotel in its place.
Architecture
The Rabynivska townhouse stood in the row housing of Fedorova (earlier Blacharska, Żydowska) street on a narrow (11.2 m) building parcel number 212, which is stretched from west to east and retains planning dimensions specified by the parameters of the location block parcellation. The building was modified in different periods, beginning from the mid-16th century, when it was built, and till the mid-19th century. The four-storied townhouse was constructed of stone (cellars) and brick, plastered and covered with a gable tin roof. Its spatial design had a structure, typical of medieval Lviv: three parts and three tracts (1 – the main building and gate; 2 – the staircase; 3 – the rear building). The townhouse's architectural design comes from different periods. The four-axis main façade was segmented vertically by lesenes (rusticated on the second floor), each floor was emphasized by profiled stringcourses. The windows were rectangular, with stone cornices underneath. The ground floor was coated with hewn limestone blocks; it was notable for two windows with white stone segmental lintels. The building had three entrances: one leading to the gate, two leading into the cellars. The main entrance gate was rectangular with a semicircular barred light and a forged door. The entrances to the cellars had metal doors.
The cellars were covered with semicircular vaults; the ground floor premises had cross and semicircular vaults; the intermediate floors were flat on wooden beams.
The house was in a condition requiring restoration. The preserved architectural elements of historical developments allowed to carry out a scientific restoration. However, the oldest surviving townhouse on former Blacharska street has been dismantled.
Personalities
Abraham Rappaport – a Talmud scholar
Wiktorja Gottfried – a co-owner of the building
Ephraim Bombuch – a co-owner of the building
Żółkiewski – a magnate family
Süssmann Leib Bałaban – qahal burgomaster in the last years of the Polish Commonwealth
Izrael Józefowicz Eideles – an owner of the building who commissioned its adaptation for a Talmudic school (yeshiva)
Izaak Halewi – a scholar and rabbi
Jozue Falk ben Aleksander Kohen – a rabbi, yeshiva's rosh (rector), a renowned scholar of his time, marshal of the Jewish Sejm [Council of Four Lands] in Lublin in 1607
Majer Bałaban – historian
Mikołaj Żółkiewski – a magnate
Oles Yarema – an architect and restorator
P. Fischer – a co-owner of the building
Peppi Weiss – a co-owner of the building
Stanisław Żółkiewski – a magnate.
Ulyana Pikhurko – an architect and restorator
Chaim Rosenstreich – a co-owner of the building
Józef Engel – a constructor.
Sources
2. State Archive of Lviv Oblast (DALO) 2/1/458.
3. M. Bałaban, "Dzielnica żydowska: jej dzieje i zabytki", Biblioteka Lwowska, 1990, T. III, 71-72.
4. Р. Могитич, "Ліктьовий податок", Вісник ін-ту Укрзахідпроектреставрація, 2009, Ч. 19.