Remu Synagogue in Kraków
Object Detail
Building Date
1557
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
1829
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
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
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce: Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 63 with ill.;
Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), pp. 116-9 with ills. and ills. 64-5;
Izabella Rejduch-Samkowa & Jan Samek (eds.), Katalog zabytków sztuki w Polsce, tom IV: Miasto Kraków, część VI: Kazimierz i Stradom - Judaica: Bóżnice, budowle publiczne i cmentarze (Warszawa, 1995), pp. 9-13, ills 13, 15, 36-42, 96, 101, 103, 108, 110-112, 114-115, 117, 124-125, 137-138, 140-143;
Eugeniusz Duda, Krakowskie judiaca (Warszawa, 1991), pp. 79-85 with ills.;
http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/krakow/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/3729,remuh-synagogue-in-krakow-40-szeroka-street-/
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
Vladimir Levin
Photographer
Photograph Date
2013
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 50.052685, 19.947342