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Piaskower Beit Midrash in Białystok
Object Detail

Building Date
1891-1893

Synagogue active dates
Until WWII

Reconstruction Dates
1970

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location

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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Photographer
Photograph Date
2023

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