MOSCOW: DMITRY POZHARSKY UNIVERSITY, 2013, 520 p. (in Russian). The historiography of the study of the history of the Jewish community of Chersonesos, as well as its religious building-synagogue, is small. After the publication in the XIX century of three hagiographic sources related in one way or another to the Chersonese Jews ("The Lives of the Holy Bishops of Chersonese", "The Life of St. Constantine (Cyril) the Philosopher" and "The Life of Eustratius Postnik" [Seraphim, 1868, pp. 120-131; Life, 1981, pp. 70-92; Life, 1903, p. 147-150]), there is silence in historiography due to the lack of additional materials on this topic. A new outbreak of interest in the history of local Jews, associated with the discovery of previously unknown archaeological and epigraphic monuments, dates back to the 50s of the XX century. It was during this decade that the Chersonesus Museum employees made several discoveries that significantly enriched our knowledge base about the Jewish community of the city. First of all, in 1950, when clearing the south nave of the so-called "Basilica of 1935", fragments of plaster from a building that chronologically preceded the basilica were discovered. Numerous graffiti in Greek and Hebrew were found on these fragments. This discovery made it possible to assume that in the Byzantine period, this plaster decorated the walls of the local synagogue. At the same time, scientists S. F. Strzheletsky and A. P. Shokhin attempted to read and attribute some of these graffiti (Shokhin, 1950, pp. 18-19; Strzheletsky, 1950, pp. 37-38). New discoveries soon followed, providing us with additional information about the Chersonesus Jewish community. Thus, in 1956, during the excavations of pottery workshops and a burial ground of the III-II centuries BC, a massive stone slab with a crudely scratched seven-branched candle was found in secondary use by V. V. Borisova. The slab was turned upside down and used for the construction of a fish and saline tank (Borisova, ... Read more