Synagogue in Szydłów
Object Detail
Building Date
1534-1564
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
1920s; 1978-1981
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Stone
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Condition
Present Usage
Cultural center
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
One of the oldest preserved synagogues in Poland.
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
A Renaissance masonry Torah ark.
Urban significance
Significance Rating
4 (International)
Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)
Bibliography
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 133 with ill.;
Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), pp. 134-138 with ills. and ills. 48, 66-7, 75, 87;
Przemysław Burchard, Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warszawa, 1990), p. 145;
Vladimir Likhodedov, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ill. 400 on p. 205;
Tadeusz Rolke, Simon Schama, Tu byliśmy: Ostatnie ślady zaginionej kultury (Berlin-Warszawa, 2008), ill on p. 171;
http://www.sztetl.org.pl/pl/article/szydlow/11,synagogi-domy-modlitwy-i-inne/4633,synagoga-w-szydlowie-ul-targowa-3-/
Rodov, Ilia. The Torah Ark in Renaissance Poland: A Jewish Revival of Classical Antiquity (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013)
Rodov, Ilia. The Torah Ark in Renaissance Poland: A Jewish Revival of Classical Antiquity (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013)
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
1995
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 50.592621, 21.001003