The structure looks both imposing and perhaps a bit surreal. Pińczów’s Old Synagogue synagogue dates from the late 16th century. According to Kazimierz and Maria Piechotka – the ultimate experts in ...

The Klausen Synagogue had not held a Jewish worship ... from Judah Loew — a 16th-century Talmudic scholar also known as the Maharal of Prague — to Baruch Jeitteles, a scholar associated ...

The researchers say Jews lived here from the 16th century until the early 19th century. They recovered scriptures, documents, and Kabbalist amulets from the synagogue’s genizah, or hiding place ...