Scuola Italiana in Ferrara
Object Detail
Building Date
1485 (the building purchased by Ser Mele), 1577 (extended)
Synagogue active dates
until 1944
Reconstruction Dates
1865-1867 (restoration), 1944 (destructed), 1990s (restoration)
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Style
Unknown|
Material/Technique
Brick
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
1. Scuola Tedesca, Scuola Fanese and Scuola Italiana are located in the same building.
2. Today Scola Italiana, once an Italian-rite synagogue, functions as a meeting room.
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Condition
Present Usage
Office building
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
2 (Regional)
Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)
Bibliography
Pinkerfeld, Batei-ha-kneset be-italiya mitkufat ha-renesans 'ad yameinu: perek be-toldot ha-adrikhalut ha-yehudit (Jerusalem, 1954), p. 43.
Constanza Cavicchi, "Note sul Ghetto Ebraico di Ferrara", in Attilio Petruccioli (ed.), Sefarad: Architettura e urbanistica ebraiche dopo il 1492 (Ferrara, 1992), pp. 27-33.
Sacerdoti, Annie. The Guide to Jewish Italy, photographs by Alberto Jona Falco (Venice, 2008)
"Tempio Italiano," MuseoFerrara, http://www.museoferrara.it/view/s/cdb779939f654218b1358283509d0634 (accessed May 27, 2024)
Sacerdoti, Annie. The Guide to Jewish Italy, photographs by Alberto Jona Falco (Venice, 2008)
"Tempio Italiano," MuseoFerrara, http://www.museoferrara.it/view/s/cdb779939f654218b1358283509d0634 (accessed May 27, 2024)
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
2025
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 44.833652, 11.622243