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Remu Synagogue in Kraków
Object Detail

Building Date
1557

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1829

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location

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

R. Moses Isserles (Rema)


Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Renaissance Torah ark. Decoration of the bimah ballustrade.


Urban significance
Part of Jewish quarter

Significance Rating
4 (International)

Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)

Bibliography

http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/krakow/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/3729,remuh-synagogue-in-krakow-40-szeroka-street-/


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. 63 with ill..

Duda, Eugeniusz, Krakowskie judiaca (Warszawa, 1991), pp. 79-85 with ills..

Fishof, Iris. “Zug dlatot aron kodesh mi-Krakow.” In Kroke–Kazimierz–Krakow: mehkarim be-toldot yehudei Krakow (Tel Aviv: The Diaspora Research Institute, Tel Aviv University, 2001), 293–95

Piechotka, Maria and Kazimierz. Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999)., pp. 116-9 with ills. and ills. 64-5.

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. 9-13, ills 13, 15, 36-42, 96, 101, 103, 108, 110-112, 114-115, 117, 124-125, 137-138, 140-143.

Rodov, Ilia. The Torah Ark in Renaissance Poland: A Jewish Revival of Classical Antiquity (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013)

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Photograph Date
2013

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