Obj. ID: 14238
Architecture Old Synagogue in Kraków, Poland
Summary and Remarks
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Name/Title
Old Synagogue in Kraków | Unknown
Object
Object Detail
Monument Setting
Unknown
Date
2nd half of the 15th century, 1557-1570
Active dates
Reconstruction dates
1904; 1913
Artist/ Maker
Origin
Historical Origin
Community type
Congregation
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Construction material
Brick
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Condition
Extant
Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
Present Usage
Museum
Present Usage Details
Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)
Architectural Significance type
Historical significance: Event/Period
One of the oldest synagogues in Poland. The main synagogue of Kazimierz, the Jewish quarter of Cracow, then the capital of Poland.
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
The two-nave interior is inspired by the Altneuschul in Prague.
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Part of Jewish quarter
Significance Rating
4 (International)
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Ornamentation
Custom
Contents
Codicology
Scribes
Script
Number of Lines
Ruling
Pricking
Quires
Catchwords
Hebrew Numeration
Blank Leaves
Direction/Location
Façade (main)
Endivances
Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
Location of Platform
Temp: Architecture Axis
Arrangement of Seats
Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
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Colophon
Scribal Notes
Watermark
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Trade Mark
Binding
Decoration Program
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Main Surveys & Excavations
Sources
Bałaban, Majer. Przewodnik po żydowskich zabytkach Krakowa (Kraków: Solidarnosc-B’nei B’rith, 1935)
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski. Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog (Warsaw: Jewish Historical Institute, 1996)
Duda, Eugeniusz, Krakowskie judiaca (Warszawa, 1991), pp. 72-79 with ills..
Duda, Eugeniusz. Stara Synagoga na Kazimierzu w Krakowie: przewodnik (Kraków: Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa, 2007)
Duda, Eugeniusz. “The History and Architecture of the Old Synagogue since the 16th Century until Its Adaptation for a Museum after World War II.” In The Bastion of Tradition, translated by Tomasz Bieroń (Kraków: Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa, 2017), 49–112
Długosz, Elżbieta, Eugeniusz Duda, Anna Jodłowiec-Dziedzic, and Dariusz Niemiec, The Bastion of Tradition. Translated by Tomasz Bieroń (Kraków: Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa, 2017)
Likhodedov, Vladimir, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ill. 343 on p. 177.
Migalska, Kinga, “Muzea judaistyczne zorganizowane w synagogach w Polsce w latach 1945–1989: historia, teraźniejszość, perspektywy.” Ph.D. thesis, Jagiellonian University, 2023., pp. 52-132.
Pastuszka, S. “Wystrój malarski babińca w synagodze Isaaca Jakubowicza w Krakowie.” Słowik – HaZamir – Der Solowiej, no. 21 (2012): 17–31.
Paulus, Simon. Die Architektur der Synagoge im Mittelalter: Überlieferung und Bestand (Petersberg: Imhof, 2007), pp. 462-464.
Piechotka, Maria and Kazimierz. Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999)., pp. 48-53 with ills and ills. 24-5, 62-3, 74, 82, 88.
Rejduch-Samkowa, Izabella, and Jan Samek, eds. Katalog zabytków sztuki w Polsce. Vol. 4: Miasto Kraków, część VI: Kazimierz i Stradom-Judaica: Bóżnice, budowle publiczne i cmentarze (Warszawa: IS PAN, 1995)., pp. 1-8, ills. 4, 9, 11-12, 14, 21-35, 62, 64, 98-100, 102, 105-106, 109, 116, 122-123, 136-137.
Rodov, Ilia. The Torah Ark in Renaissance Poland: A Jewish Revival of Classical Antiquity (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013)
http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/krakow/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/305,old-synagogue-24-szeroka-street-/
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