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Oratorio Israelitico Synagogue in Casale Monferrato
Object Detail

Building Date
1595, 1853-1866

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Italy | Piedmont | Casale Monferrato
| Vicolo Salomone Olper 44

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

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
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography

CJA;

Yaakov Pinkerfeld, Batei-ha-kneset be-italiya mitkufat ha-renesans 'ad yameinu: perek be-toldot ha-adrikhalut ha-yehudit (Jerusalem, 1954), pp. 31-33 with plan, ills 43-48;

Rivka and Ben-Zion Dorfman, Synagogues without Jews and the Communities that built and used them (Philadelphia, 2000), pp. 22-29 with ills., p. 330;

David Cassuto, "Batei-Kneset beitaliya betkufat habarok," in: Yakov Eshel, Ehud Netzer, David Amit and David Cassuto (eds.), Va'asu li mikdash: batei-kneset meyamei kedem ve'ad yameinu (Ariel, 2004), pp. 114-115 with ill.

Samuel D. Gruber, “Italian Synagogues from 1492 to the Present,” in Jewish Religious Architecture: From Biblical Israel to Modern Judaism, ed. Steven Fine (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020), 275–86, here 280.


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Photographer
Photograph Date
2000

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