Wysoka Synagogue in Kraków
Object Detail
Building Date
1556-1563
Synagogue active dates
Until 1939
Reconstruction Dates
1863; 1970-1971
Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)
Style
Unknown|
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
Interior paintings. Mannerist Torah ark.
Urban significance
Part of Jewish quarter
Significance Rating
4 (International)
Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)
Bibliography
http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/krakow/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/3739,high-synagogue-in-krakow-38-jozefa-street-/
Bałaban, Majer. Przewodnik po żydowskich zabytkach Krakowa (Kraków: Solidarnosc-B’nei B’rith, 1935)
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski. Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog (Warsaw: Jewish Historical Institute, 1996), p. 64 with ill..
Duda, Eugeniusz, Krakowskie judiaca (Warszawa, 1991), pp. 97-99 with ills..
Piechotka, Maria and Kazimierz. Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999)., pp. 120-3 with ills..
Rejduch-Samkowa, Izabella, and Jan Samek, eds. Katalog zabytków sztuki w Polsce. Vol. 4: Miasto Kraków, część VI: Kazimierz i Stradom-Judaica: Bóżnice, budowle publiczne i cmentarze (Warszawa: IS PAN, 1995)., pp. 15-17, ills. 16, 43-44, 61, 97, 107, 119.
Rodov, Ilia. The Torah Ark in Renaissance Poland: A Jewish Revival of Classical Antiquity (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013)
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Center for Jewish Art
Photographer
Photograph Date
1995
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 50.051369, 19.947401