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Beit Midrash Kowea Itim le Tora in Kraków
Object Detail

Building Date
1810

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1912

Architect/ Maker

Community

Location

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Dwelling

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance
Part of Jewish quarter

Significance Rating
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 68 with ill.; Izabella Rejduch-Samkowa & Jan Samek (eds.), Katalog zabytków sztuki w Polsce, tom IV: Miasto Kraków, część VI: Kazimierz i Stradom - Judaica: Bóżnice, budowle publiczne i cmentarze (Warszawa, 1995), p. 33, ill. 81; Eugeniusz Duda, Krakowskie judiaca (Warszawa, 1991), p. 115 with ill.; http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/krakow/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/3774,kowea-itim-i-tora-house-of-prayer-24-jozefa-street-/

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2013

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