The Great Synagogue
Plain-walled nineteenth-century synagogue hiding a colourful Rococo-painted prayer hall and Holocaust memorial.
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This guide to the Great Synagogue in Bucharest, the Polish-Jewish congregation's house of prayer since the eighteen forties, follows the people who shaped its hall: an architect who rebuilt it between the wars, and the painter Gershon Horowitz, who covered its ceiling in nineteen thirty-six. It reaches into January nineteen forty-one, when the far-right Legionnaires turned on the city's Jews. Best heard standing in the prayer hall, looking up.
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