Isaac Jakubowicz Synagogue

This guide to the Isaac Jakubowicz Synagogue in Kraków opens with a Kazimierz legend: a poor man named Ayzik who dreams, night after night, of treasure buried under a bridge in Prague, and walks the whole distance to dig for it. It follows how that story explains the sudden fortune behind Kazimierz's grandest Baroque synagogue, built between sixteen thirty-eight and sixteen forty-four despite a furious local priest's objections, and traces the building through Nazi occupation and decades as a workshop and warehouse. Best heard walking slowly along the walls toward the ark.