Remuh Synagogue
Renaissance-era prayer house with a cemetery wall built from the shattered fragments of destroyed gravestones.
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This guide to the Remuh Synagogue in Kraków opens in the 1550s with a Kraków banker's grief—whether for a lost daughter-in-law or, as some say, his son's mourning for his own wife—and the wooden prayer house that grief raised, then burned. It follows that son, the young rabbi Moses Isserles, into becoming the most influential rabbi Kraków ever produced, and traces the synagogue through the German occupation that stripped it during the Second World War. Listen for how the building survived what came after, and visit the cemetery just behind it.
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