Jewish journey in Poland
During Jewish journey in Poland everyone should experience the ambience of Shtetls. Their history give a enhanced considerate of centuries of Jewish life in this country. Visiting them provides too a first-rate dissimilarity to sightseeing huge cities like Warsaw or Cracow and certainly a restful knowledge behind conurbation activity. Exploring Shtetls is specially reccommended before visiting the Holocaust sites. Only by enjoying the beauty of Central European countryside can we strive to know the words of Shalom Asch who wrote that “Weissel – the river Vistula – spoke Yiddish”.
The map of Poland
Visit Poland is dotted with thousands of little towns which pending now are rich in Jewish heritage sites. Our tours to determine Shtetls are always enriched with Jewish text quotations, private testimonies of former inhabitants and splendid case in point of cultural being, represented by Jewish melody. It is worth to consider a visit to Shtetls through your transfers in flanked by superior cities in Poland. There is a lot to exist seen on the travel as of Warsaw to Cracow, Lublin or Lodz.
We have particular in one daytime Shtetl discovery tours in Cracow, Tarnow and Kielce region. Now we offer two going to places of interest itineraries, which on your request strength live changed in sort to encompass meticulous chairs you might subsist paying attention in. Upon request, we too position extraordinary tours focusing lying on expansion of synagogue architecture and art . Nowy Korczyn synagogue
1. YIDDISHE ADVENTURE – COLOURS OF SHTETL Cracow – Dzialoszyce – Nowy Korczyn – Pinczow – Chmielnik – Szydlow – Checiny- Cracow This tour is led in north Cracow and south Kielce region – on the territory rich in influences of unlike sacred minorities.
Jews ongoing to reconcile at this point as early on as in XIII centaury, in a while in XVI centaury came diverse denominations associated with reformation within the catholic house of worship. The co-existence of those people bent a unique communal and cultural model, emanating through architecture and ambiance of those places. Within XIX century it was a border earth in flanked by Russian and Austrian partition zones, which twisted opportunities for official trade growth lying on the one offer and wide smuggling on the other. Places you will see: Dzialoszyce – ruins of a synagogue from 1852 and beit ha-midrash, tombstone to Jewish inhabitants killed by the Nazis. Nowy Korczyn – ruins of a synagogue from 1659.
Pinczow – renovated synagogue from 1557 with some preserved polychromes from XVIII centaury. Pinczow was a meeting rest of Vaad Arba Aratzot (The Diet of the Four Lands). Chmielnik – synagogue from 1638 and Chmielnik Jewish cemetery. Szydlow – quaint medieval city surrounded with stone battlements. Sometimes called „Polish Carcassone” Synagogue from 1564, two gothic churches and ruins of a castle. Checiny – synagogue from 1638 and Jewish graveyard. Ruins of a castle as of 1306. Sokolow Malopolski Jewish cemetery.
2. HASIDIC DANCE THROUGH GALICIA Cracow – Nowy Sacz – Bobowa – Dabrowa Tarnowska – Tarnow – Zbylitowska Gora – Cracow This tour is direct in southern element of Galicia south-east on or after Cracow on the foothills of the Carpathian mountains.
During this travel you will have a chance to experience the immense assortment of Galicia Jewry. Places related with Hassidic Sages are shut by to main centers of Haskala and concluding on Zionism. Places you will see: Nowy Sacz – brawny heart of Hassidism initiated by Chaim Halberstam. The only Hassidic prayer home in use pending nowadays. Synagogue from 1746 with Judaic exhibition. Impressive Jewish graveyard with ohel for Halberstam family.
Bobowa – center of Bobowa Hassidim. Beautiful restored synagogue from 1756. Jewish burial ground with the Ohel of tzadik Chaim Jakub from Bobowa and tzadik Salomon Halberstam from Bobowa. Dabrowa Tarnowska – ruin of an massive synagogue from 1868. Tiny Judaic Museum planned in past shtible. Jewish cemetery. Tarnow – before WW II about a partly of 50.000 inhabitants were Jewish. Tarnow was a awfully physically powerful middle of Zionism in Galicia. The are the remnants of Old Synagogue, Jewish Street and Mikvah building. Large and fine preserved Jewish memorial park with monument to the Holocaust martyrs. Zbylitowska Gora – monument to 10.000 public largely Jews from Tarnow area murdered by the side of this site by the German Nazis during WW II. Visit Auschwitz.
