Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw
Object Detail
Building Date
1898-1902
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
1923
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
In the period of 1939-1941 the synagogue served as a fodder warehouse and a stable. In 1941 the Nazis allowed to open three synagogues in Warsaw, including the Nożyk synagogue. The official opening was held on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The service was conducted by a senior hazzan, Dawid Ajdensztadt. Majer Bałaban(1877-1942), a historian, Warsaw University and the Institute of Judaism Sciences professor, who headed the Archive Department of Judenrat in the Warsaw ghetto, preached the sermon.
Condition
Present Usage
Synagogue
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
It is the only one synagogue in Warsaw that survived WWII and the Ghetto Uprising.
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Part of public square
Significance Rating
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)
Bibliography
M.Sh. Gashuri, “Batei-haknesset vehahazanut”, Entsiklopediya shel galuyot, vol. 1: Varsha, ed. Itzhak Grinbaum (Jerusalem-Tel Aviv, 1953), p. 315;
Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, "Polish Synagogues in the 19th Century" in Antony Polonski (ed.), From Shtetl to Socialism: Studies from Polin (London-Washington, 1993), pp. 212-231 (first published in Polin, vol. 2), p. 223;
YIVO Encyclopedia, vol.2, p. 1998;
Hatsfirah, 4.3.1902, p. 1;
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski. Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog (Warsaw: Jewish Historical Institute, 1996), 139.
Burchard, Przemysław. Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warsaw: Burchard Edition, 1990), 89.
Piechotka, Maria and Kazimierz. Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999)., ill. 636.
Zieliński, Jarosław, Warszawskie synagogi: na tropie tajemnic (Łódź: Księży Młyn Dom Wydawniczy, 2020), 35-50.
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Vladimir Levin
Photographer
Photograph Date
2015
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 52.236130, 21.001019