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JEWISH WOMAN SELLING ORANGES IN 1880
This amazing painting by Polish artist Alexander Gierymski shows the realist picture of a poor Jewish woman sellling fruits in the streets of Warsaw. Alexander Gierymski was a realist painter and a...
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THE SYNAGOGUE IN INOWLODZ, POLAND.
The small synagogue in the Central Poland area of Lodz, built originally in the early 19th Century, was destroyed by the Nazis like many others in Poland, Restored in the early 1980’s, now houses a...
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ROSH HASHANAH TRAVEL SERIES:
The TEMPEL SYNAGOGUE IN KRAKOW IS OPEN for the High Holidays and is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the prayer and the beauty of one of the most beautiful synagogues in EuropeFiled under: Europe,...
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ONE OF THE 2000 REMAINING JEWISH TOMBSTONES IN TOMASZOW MAZOWIECKI IN POLAND
The Jewish Cemetery in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, a town in between Warsaw and Krakow, where more than a third of the population was Jewish before the Holocaust. The Cemetery was destroyed by the Nazis...
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THE HOUSE OF “THE BOOK” HOUSES NOW MANY BOOKS
In Konin, Poland, the old Synagogue, built in 1829, is being preserved today as the local city Library. The Jewish Community built the synagogue in the early 19th Century in what was a rare mix of...
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THE FIRST SEPHARDIC SYNAGOGUE THAT WAS BUILT IN NORTHEASTERN EUROPE IS IN POLAND
The Synagogue in Zamosc, near the Polish border to Ukraine was built in 1618 by Sephardic Jews that arrived to Poland from the Ottoman Empire and Venice and was reopened in 2011 as a spiritual and...
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THE GREAT POLISH KING THAT OPENED THE DOOR TO THE JEWS
The King of Poland, Casimir III The Great, opened the doors of Poland for Jews to settle in its different regions in great numbers back in the 14th Century. The painting from Polish artist Gerson...
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THE ONLY SURVIVING PREWAR SYNAGOGUE IN WARSAW IS THE NOZYK SYNAGOGUE.
The Synagoga Nozykow was opened in 1902 and reopened after the end of the war and is today one of the main Jewish centers in Poland.Filed under: Europe, Poland
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FROM PAST TO FUTURE IN JEWISH KRAKOW: GET ON THE JEWISH TRAVEL MACHINE
You can be walking historical Jewish Krakow district, Kazimierz; while helping build the future of its reborn Jewish Community by joining JDC Entwine Jewish Service Corps and spending a year making a...
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IN A CITY WHERE 70 % OF THE POPULATION WAS JEWISH BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST AND NO...
The Torah Ark at the Wlodawa Synagogue in Wlodawa, is part of the synagogue complex that remains not just a tourist attraction in the Polish town close to Belarus and Ukraine, but a reminder of the...
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