Joseph Barsky

Joseph Barsky (Hebrew: יוסף ברסקי‎‎, ? in Odessa, Russian Empire – 1943 in Haifa, Palestine) was an architect in Israel. Barsky was a graduate of the Architectural College in Grekov Odessa Art school of Odessa and of the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Art. He came to Israel in 1907 and from that time on lived and worked in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine. He was one of the most renowned representatives of the Zionist architects of the Eretz Yisrael style.

Significant buildings

Herzliya Hebrew High School, Tel Aviv

The first kiosk in Tel Aviv at the middle of the Rothschild Boulevard

Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem

Diskin Orphanage, Jerusalem