Piaskower Beit Midrash in Białystok
Object Detail
Building Date
1891-1893
Synagogue active dates
Until WWII
Reconstruction Dates
1970
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Style
Unknown|
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Condition
Present Usage
Cultural center
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
The building, partially destroyed during occupation, served as the seat of Jewish organizations which operated in Białystok in 1945-68, such as the Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce (Socio-cultural Association of Jews in Poland).
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Significance Rating
2 (Regional)
Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)
Bibliography
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 20 with ill.;
Tomasz Wisniewski, Jewish Bialystok and Surroundings in Eastern Poland: A Guide for Yesterday and Today (Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1998), p. 47 with ill.;
Avrom Shmuel Hershberg, Pinkos Bialystok: grunt-materialn tsu der geshikhte fun di yidn in bialystok biz nokh der ershter velt-milkhome, 2 vols (New York, 1949-1950)., vol. 1, p. 300-301;
Przemysław Burchard, Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warszawa, 1990), p. 58;
http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/bialystok/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/380,piaskower-beit-midrash-3-piekna-street/
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Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
2023
Remarks
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