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Object Alone
Scuola Canton in Venice
Object Detail

Building Date
1531-1532, 1672, 1736 (ark), 1780 (bimah)

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1859 (staircase), 1968-1989

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Italy | Veneto | Venice
| Ghetto Nuovo

Style

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
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography

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

https://www.wmf.org/project/schola-canton


Gruber, Samuel D., “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, p. 277.

Pinkerfeld, Yaakov, Batei-ha-kneset be-italiya mitkufat ha-renesans 'ad yameinu: perek be-toldot ha-adrikhalut ha-yehudit (Jerusalem, 1954), pp. 9-10 with plan, ills. 7-8.

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
Page
Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2011

Remarks

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