Religion in Krakw - Christianity in Krakw, Synagogues in Krakw, Synagogues of Krakw, Remuh Synagogue, Rakowicki Cemetery (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Christianity in Krakw, Synagogues in Krakw, Synagogues of Krakw, Remuh Synagogue, Rakowicki Cemetery, Wolf Popper Synagogue, Kupa Synagogue, Izaak Synagogue, Old Synagogue, Tempel Synagogue, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Krakw, High Synagogue, Remuh Cemetery, Judaica Foundation - Center for Jewish Culture, Bobov Synagogue, Kowea Itim Le-Tora Synagogue. Excerpt: The synagogues of Krakw are an outstanding collection of monuments of Jewish sacred architecture unmatched anywhere in Poland. The seven main synagogues of the Jewish District of Kazimierz constitute the largest such complex in Europe next to Prague. It is a unique on the European scale religious complex prescribed on the list of UNESCO world heritage sites along with the entire city district in 1978, as the first ever. Krakw was an influential centre of Jewish spiritual life before the outbreak of World War II, with all its manifestations of religious observance from Orthodox, to Chasidic and Reform flourishing side by side. There were at least ninety synagogues in Krakw active before the Nazi German invasion of Poland, serving its burgeoning Jewish community of 60,00080,000 (out of the city's total population of 237,000), established since the early 12th century. Most synagogues of Krakw were ruined during World War II by the Nazis who despoiled them of all ceremonial objects, and used them as storehouses for ammunition, firefighting equipment, and as general storage facilities. The post-Holocaust Jewish population of the city had dwindled to about 5,900 before the end of 1940s, and by 1978, the number was further reduced in size to a mere 600 by some estimates. In recent time, thanks to the efforts of the local Jewish and Polish organizations including foreign financial a... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19066299