Old Wooden Synagogue (Besht Synagogue) in Piatra Neamț
Object Detail
Building Date
1766
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
1826, 1854, 1870, 1928, 2009
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Timber
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Condition
Present Usage
Synagogue
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
During the 2009 restoration many original features were destroyed
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Wall paintings, Torah ark
Urban significance
Significance Rating
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)
Bibliography
Paul Cernovodeanu, “The Jews of Moldova and Wallachia During the Phanariot Regime (1711–1821),” in The History of the Jews in Romania, vol. 1: From Its Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century, ed. Paul Cernovodeanu (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2005), p. 102.
http:/shadowsoftime.co.nz/synagogues/piatraneamt.html
Collection of photographs by Lajos Erdélyi (1929-2020), made in the 1970s, at the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives (Milev), https://collections.milev.hu/items/show/38816.
Feldman, Eliyahu, Ba’alei melakhah yehudiim be-moldaviyah (Jerusalem, 1982), pp. 150-151.
Stanciu, Măriuca, “Romanian Synagogues – Between West And East (Trends And Tendencies in the Synagogal Art in Romania),” Studia Hebraica 8 (2008), pp. 110–123, p. 115.
Streja, Aristide and Lucian Schwarz, Synagogues of Romania ([Bucharest]: Hasefer Publishing House, 1997), pp. 102-105, 189, ills 84-85.
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
2009
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 46.933712, 26.371326