Joseph Barsky Explained

Joseph Barsky
Birth Place:	Odessa, Russian Empire
Death Date:	1943
Death Place:	Haifa, Palestine
Nationality:	Jewish
Alma Mater:	Grekov Odessa Art school, Imperial Academy of Arts
Significant Buildings:	Herzliya Hebrew High School, Tel Aviv; The first kiosk in Tel Aviv; Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem; Diskin Orphanage, Jerusalem

Joseph Barsky (Hebrew: יוסף ברסקי, Odessa, Russian Empire  - 1943 in Haifa, Palestine) was an architect in Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine.

Barsky was a graduate of the Architectural College in Grekov Odessa Art school of Odessa and the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Art.^[1] He came to Ottoman Palestine in 1907 and from that time on lived and worked in Jerusalem. He was one of the most renowned representatives of the Zionist architects of the Eretz Yisrael style.

Notable buildings

• Herzliya Hebrew High School, Tel Aviv (destroyed in 1962) ^{[2] [3] [4]}
• The first kiosk in Tel Aviv at the middle of the Rothschild Boulevard^{[5] [6]}
• Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem
• Diskin Orphanage, Jerusalem

Notes and References

1. Sergey R. Kravtsov, "Reconstruction of the Temple by Charles Chipiez and Its Applications in Architecture," Ars Judaica, vol. 4 (2008), 36–37.
2. Web site: Diana Dolev. Architectural Orientalism in the Hebrew University – the Patrick Geddes and Frank Mears Master-Plan. https://web.archive.org/web/20110724123504/http://arts.tau.ac.il/departments/images/stories/journals/arthistory/Assaph3/12dolev.pdf. dead. 2011-07-24. 218–219. Tel Aviv University.
3. Book: Building the Cold War . Annabel Jane Wharton. University of Chicago Press . 108 . 2001. 0-226-89419-3.
4. News: Catherine Weill-Rochant . Myths and Buildings of Tel Aviv . Bulletin du Centre de recherche français de Jérusalem.
5. Web site: הקיוסק הראשון . My Tel Aviv . he . 2011-08-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120914022156/http://www.mytelaviv.co.il/page_sub.asp?topic2_id=455&topic_id=344 . 2012-09-14 . dead .
6. Web site: לילה לבן: בתים בת"א שהחושך עושה להם טוב . Yediot Aharonot . he . 2011-08-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120502064743/http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4089580,00.html . 2012-05-02 . dead .