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Object Alone
Scuola Grande Tedesca in Venice
Object Detail

Building Date
1528-1529, 1732-1733

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1860, 1975-1979

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Italy | Veneto | Venice
| Ghetto Nuovo

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Stone

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
4 (International)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography

Noemi Cassuto, "The Italian Synagogue Through the Ages" in: Rivka and Ben-Zion Dorfman, Synagogues without Jews and the Communities that built and used them (Philadelphia, 2000), pp. 300-307, ill. on p. 302;

David Cassuto, "The Scuola Grande Tedesca in the Venice Ghetto," Journal of Jewish Art 3-4 (1977), pp. 40-57. Translation into Hebrew: Rimonim 2 (1985), with ills and plans;

http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2017/05/14/italy-watch-restoration-of-windows-in-venice-synagogues;

https://jvenice.org/en/german-synagogue/ 


Cassuto, David, "Batei-kneset be-italiyah betkufat ha-barok," 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. 103-110 with ills and plans.

Dorfman, Rivka and Ben-Zion. Synagogues without Jews and the Communities that Built and Used Them (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 2000), p. 330.

Pinkerfeld, Yaakov, Batei-ha-kneset be-italiya mitkufat ha-renesans 'ad yameinu: perek be-toldot ha-adrikhalut ha-yehudit (Jerusalem, 1954), pp. 7-9 with plan, ills. 2-6.

Sacerdoti, Annie, Guide to Jewish Italy (Brooklyn: Israelowitz Publishing, 1989)

Sacerdoti, Annie. The Guide to Jewish Italy, photographs by Alberto Jona Falco (Venice, 2008)

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2011

Remarks

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