Synagogue in Dąbrowa Tarnowska
Object Detail
Building Date
1865 (by Goldstein), 1936-1937 (by Mertz)
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
2012
Architect/ Maker
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
The synagogue’s interior was colorful and profusely decorated with mural paintings and reliefs depicting various scenes. Even today one can notice fragments of Hebrew inscriptions covering the walls. The aforementioned reliefs showed symbolic animals next to which there were inscriptions engraved in plaster. There was, for instance, a leopard with the phrase “be bold as a leopard”, an eagle with the words “be light as an eagle”, or a lion with the sentence “be strong as a lion”. All the paintings were light pastel, the color being so characteristic to the long Italian artistic tradition. Interestingly, the renovation revealed that they were not the first murals since there was another layer of paintings hidden underneath.
Urban significance
Significance Rating
3 (National)
Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)
Bibliography
CJA documentation;
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 37 with ill.;
Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), ill. 634;
Piechotka, Maria and Kazimierz. Heaven’s Gates: Masonry Synagogues in the Territories of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Translated by Krzystof Z. Cieszkowski. Warsaw: Polish Institute of World Art Series : Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, 2017. P. 601.
Przemysław Burchard, Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warszawa, 1990), p. 215;
Ariella Amar and Ruth Jacoby, Ingathering of the Nations. Treasures of Jewish Art: Documenting an Endangered Legacy (Jerusalem, 1998), p. 60-61 with ills;
Vladimir Likhodedov, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ill. 327 on p. 169;
http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/dabrowa-tarnowska/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/483,new-synagogue-berka-joselewicza-street-/
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
Vladimir Levin
Photographer
Photograph Date
2013
Remarks
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