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Beit Midrash of the Gerer Rebbe in Góra Kalwaria
Object Detail

Building Date
1905

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
After 1945

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community
Ashkenazi | Hasidic
| Ger (Gur)

Location

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Synagogue

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Court Beit Midrash of the most powerful Hasidic dinasty in Poland.


Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance
Hasidic tzadik`s court

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)

Bibliography
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 47 with ill.; Przemysław Burchard, Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warszawa, 1990)., p. 86; Eleonora Bergman, “Góra Kalwaria: The Impact of a Hasidic Cult on the Urban Landscape of a Small Polish Town,” Polin 5 (1990): 15; http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/gora-kalwaria/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/227,synagogue-at-pijarska-10-12-/

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2004

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