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    Title

  • Innenseite der Synagoge Regensburg : [Ratisbona], undated

    • Other Title(s)

  • Interior of the Regensburg synagogue

  • Physical Description

    1 postcard : black-and-white photograph ; 14 x 9 centimeters

  • Summary

    Modern round hall featuring a women’s gallery without columns (!).

  • Subject

    Synagogues, Interiors

  • Place

    Regensburg (Germany)

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Hugo Fuchs Collection, AR 790

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

The first synagogue in Regensburg was consecrated in 1227. Jews were expelled from Regensburg in 1519, and the synagogue was destroyed. Jews returned to Regensburg in 1669 but did not dedicate a synagogue until 1841. A new modern synagogue was built in 1912 and destroyed in Kristallnacht in 1938.

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Citation

Innenseite der Synagoge Regensburg : [Ratisbona], undated, Leo Baeck Institute, F 3165.