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Synagogue in Szydłów
Object Detail

Building Date
1534-1564

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1920s; 1978-1981

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location

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)

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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
1995

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