New Town (Great) Synagogue in Rzeszów
Object Detail
Building Date
1705-1712, 1842
Synagogue active dates
Until WWII
Reconstruction Dates
1954-1965
Style
Unknown|
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
Destroyed in 1944, restored in 1963
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Condition
Present Usage
Museum
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Significance Rating
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)
Bibliography
Evreiskaia Entsiklopediia, 16 vols. (St. Petersburg, 1908-1913), vol. 13, p. 475;
http://www.sztetl.org.pl/pl/article/rzeszow/11,synagogi-domy-modlitwy-i-inne/1184,synagoga-nowomiejska/
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski. Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog (Warsaw: Jewish Historical Institute, 1996), p. 117 with ill..
Burchard, Przemysław. Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warsaw: Burchard Edition, 1990), p. 240.
Piechotka, Maria and Kazimierz. Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999)., pp. 286-289.
Potocki, Andrzej, Żydzi w Podkarpackiem (Rzeszów, 2004), pp. 157, 169.
Łuszczkiewicz, Władysław, “Sprawozdanie z wycieczki naukowej odbytej w lecie 1891 roku (Rzeszów),” Sprawozdania Komisyi do Badania Historyi Sztuki w Polsce 5 (1896): 173–84.
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Full Name
Volume
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Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
1995
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 50.038708, 22.007669