Wooden Synagogues In The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Wooden synagogues are an original style of Vernacular architecture, vernacular synagogue architecture that emerged in the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.Wischnitzer, Rachel ''The Architecture of the European Synagogue''. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1964, pp. 125-147Krinsky, Carol Herselle ''Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning''. Cambridge, Mass: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985, Dover Publications, 1996, pp. 53-58 and in individual town sections The style developed between the mid-16th and mid-17th centuries, a period of peace and prosperity for the Polish-Lithuanian Jewish community. While many were destroyed during the First World War, First and World War II, Second World Wars, there are some that survive today in Lithuania. History According to Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, wooden synagogues in Poland–Lithuania developed during the Renaissance, sometime from the mid-16th to mid-17th century. This period was described as ...
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