Isaac Synagogue in Kraków
Object Detail
Building Date
1638-1644
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
1857, 1923, 1957-58, 1990-96
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Stone
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
Isaac Jakubowicz
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Part of Jewish quarter
Significance Rating
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)
Bibliography
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), p. 65 with ill..
Duda, Eugeniusz, Krakowskie judiaca (Warszawa, 1991), pp. 99-100 with ill..
Likhodedov, Vladimir, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ill. 345 on p. 178.
Pastuszka, S. “Wystrój malarski babińca w synagodze Isaaca Jakubowicza w Krakowie.” Słowik – HaZamir – Der Solowiej, no. 21 (2012): 17–31.
Piechotka, Maria and Kazimierz. Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999)., pp. 129-133 with ills., ill. 52.
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. 24-26, ills. 5, 7, 53-60, 63, 121.
Yaniv, Bracha. “The Wall Decoration in the Isaac Synagogue in Kazimierz, Krakow: The First Overall Layer.” In Jewish Artists in Central-Eastern Europe: Art Centers – Identity – Heritage from the 19th Century to the Second World War, edited by Jerzy Malinowski, Renata Piątkowska, and Tamara Sztyma-Knyasiecka (Warsaw: DiG
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
1995
Remarks
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