Rapid Site Report: Yeshiva for Boys, Kharkiv, Ukraine

The Kharkiv Yeshiva for Boys (hereafter, the Yeshiva) was damaged on 15 March 2022. Analysis conducted by the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (SCRI), in collaboration with the Penn Cultural Heritage Center at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (PennCHC), the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab at the Virginia Museum of Natural History (CHML), the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland (CIDCM), and the Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab (HeMo), confirmed this damage. This review was undertaken after reports of damage to the site from news media.

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CITE THIS REPORT: Hanson, K., Bender, T. J. P., Lawrence-Weilmann, J., Rozhko, V., Makar, R., Zadorozhna, M., Oleksii, A., Dvornikov, V., Frolova, Y., Cil, D., Tuttle, E., Bakhshi, R., Aronson. J., Gunter-Bassett, M., Welsh, W., Fitzgerald, K., Maher, A., Bassett, H., Muller, C. E., Kane, K. E., Daniels, B. I., and Wegener, C. (2024). “Rapid Site Report: Yeshiva for Boys, Kharkiv, Ukraine.” Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab; University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Penn Cultural Heritage Center; Virginia Museum of Natural History, Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab; University of Maryland, Center for International Development and Conflict Management; and Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative. DOI: 10.25573/data.25598556.