Єрусалимка «Слідами хасидського хлопчика»

Audio walk

"In the footsteps of the Hasidic Lad"

Immersive audio walk through Vinnytsia Jerusalimka — voices, songs and stories
that come alive with you

turn on, listen, feel

Seven stops of Jerusalimka

The route consists of seven thematic stops, each of which reveals a separate facet of history: literary, musical, social, personal.

Starting point of the route

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Market square

A map of Vinnytsia from 1796 shows wooden stalls specially built for trade on the market square of the New Town (on the right bank of the Southern Bug River), surrounded by “Jewish

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Entrance to Jerusalem

Yerusalymka is the name given to a district of compact Jewish settlement in Vinnytsia, which began to take shape at the turn of the 17th–18th centuries.

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Main Synagogue

A synagogue for the Jewish community is a sacred place where Jews gather for communal prayer, the study of religious texts, and discussions of important community matt

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There is traffic on the route

Talmud Torah

A Talmud Torah was the name given to an educational institution for boys from poor Jewish families.

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Courtyards

An important feature of Vinnytsia’s Yerusalymka was the intricate network of its streets and courtyards—a unique mosaic of the cultural landscape of Podolian Jews.

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Slope to the Boh River

The Southern Buh River (known in ancient times as the Boh) washed Yerusalymka along the northeastern side of Vinnytsia’s central riverbank.

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Yakushinets Gate

In the work of the prominent Ukrainian historian Valentyn Otamanovskyi, Vinnytsia in the 14th–17th Centuries, a map of the old city shows a marking labeled “Yakushynets Gate.” These were a

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Хоральна синагога

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How to listen

Step by step: immersion in history

Headphones

Put on your headphones and get ready to listen to stories.

For continuous listening, it is best to open the starting point of the route or the "Audio" section and start the player.

Route

Come to the starting point of the route
and start the journey.

The starting point is located at the intersection of Soborna and Vyzvolennia Streets, near the central bridge, right next to the Court of Appeal.

Walk

Move through the streets, and you will hear
stories nearby.

The logic of the movement will be suggested by the narrator, the map on the website and the signs placed in the space of the streets.

Sounds of Jerusalimka

Listen to the voices and music
that was created here.

Episodes from the hero's life are taken from Linetskyi's biography and the novel "Hasidic Lad", and the music is based on folk songs based on poems from the collection "The Angry Jester".

Living history

A walk that sounds

The project «In the footsteps of the Hasidic lad: an audio walk through Jerusalymka in Vinnytsia» aims to preserve Vinnytsia’s cultural heritage by researching and promoting the former densely populated Jewish quarter of Jerusalymka. The audio recordings are based on excerpts from the works of Isaac Joel Linetzky, a native of Vinnytsia and a notable figure in Yiddish literature, including his satirical novel «The Hasidic Lad» and songs from the collection «The Angry Jester». These sources vividly recreate life in Vinnytsia and its surroundings during the 19th century.

Details

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Gallery

Here are shots of real participants during the walk: people with headphones, emotions, moments of stops, reactions. The gallery shows how history becomes an experience.