Creator Bio
Joseph Barsky
1876–1943
Born in Rzhyshchiv, near Kiev (today in Ukraine), Joseph Barsky attended the Odessa School of Art. He moved to St. Petersburg to continue his studies at the Imperial Academy of Art while also apprenticing with local architects. Barsky left in 1906 for Palestine, where he designed Jerusalem’s Bikur Ḥolim Hospital (1907) and the Herzliya Gymnasium (1909). Barsky also designed Tel Aviv’s first kiosk café on the city’s Rothschild Boulevard (1910).