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Synagogue in Police u Jemnice
Object Detail

Building Date
1759

Synagogue active dates
Until 1917

Reconstruction Dates
1919; 1950s; 2000; 2012-2020

Community

Location
Czech Republic | Moravia | Police u Jemnice
| 125 Židovská St.

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

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
Part of Jewish street

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)

Bibliography

Fiedler, Jiří. Jewish Sights of Bohemia and Moravia (Prague:Sefer, 1991)

Klenovský, Jaroslav. Židovské památky Moravy a Slezska - Jewish Monuments of Moravia and Silesia (Brno, 2001)

"On the road in CZ: the rural Jewish world of Police; a tiny village synagogue under restoration" and "CZ: Mazel tov! Village synagogue in tiny Police u Jemnice is being inaugurated after an eight-year restoration process,"
Jewish Heritage Europe, http://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2018/07/30/on-the-road-in-cz-the-rural-jewish-world-of-police/, https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2020/07/07/cz-inauguration-of-police/.

"Synagoga v Polici,"
Wikipedia, https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synagoga_v_Polici.

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2023

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