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Orthodox Synagogue in Košice
Object Detail

Building Date
1927

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker

Community

Location
Slovakia | Košice
| Puškinova St.

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Concrete

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Synagogue

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
Silvia Singerová, "Jewish Identity after the Holocaust - The Community in Košice (Kassa)," Judaica Bohemiae XLI (2005), pp. 82-127, p. 86, ill. 2; YIVO Encyclopedia, vol. 2, ill. on p. 1762; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orthodox_Synagogue,_Košice; http://www.synagogues360.org/synagogues.php?ident=slovak_republic_005
Borský, Maroš, Synagogue Architecture in Slovakia: A Memorial Landscape of a Lost Community (Bratislava: Jewish Heritage Foundation - Menorah, 2007)

Bárkány, Eugen, L'udovít Dojč. Židovské náboženské obce na Slovensku (Bratislava: Vesna, 1991)

Dorfman, Rivka and Ben-Zion. Synagogues without Jews and the Communities that Built and Used Them (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 2000)

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2022

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