Joseph Barsky

Joseph Barsky (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. 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)
 * The first kiosk in Tel Aviv at the middle of the Rothschild Boulevard
 * Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem
 * Diskin Orphanage, Jerusalem