1919–1941Synagogue
Bare Winter Trees in Front of the Synagogue
The trees along the front are bare of leaves, so the photograph was taken in winter, and a tall neighbouring house stands hard against the end of the building. The caption is Serbian in both scripts with no Hungarian, which places the card in the Kingdom after 1918, and it calls the building a Jewish church rather than using the word for a synagogue.
About this place
The synagogue on Jevrejska street was built in 1905-1909 to a design by the Budapest architect Lipót Baumhorn, in Hungarian Secession style, with room for 900 worshippers; synagogues had stood on the same site since 1749. During the Second World War occupation, Jews of Novi Sad were imprisoned in the building before deportation to Nazi death camps; of the more than 4,000 Jews living in the city before the war, roughly 1,000 survived. The building served as a synagogue until about 1966 and since 2012 has been used as a cultural venue for concerts and Jewish holiday celebrations. It was designated a Cultural Monument of Exceptional Importance in 1983.
On the card
Jevrejska crkva
- Date
- 1919–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25306, 19.84083
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 919 × 600 px
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