A sign of Prague’s thriving Jewish community.
The 17th-century Vilna shul.
Empty houses of worship can’t be easily refilled.
When congregants started getting too loud.
The long history of Charleston’s Jews.
The legacy of Jewish Moscow.
Decrees of Christian emperors and declining knowledge of Hebrew.
Shtibl Row once had 50 synagogues.
A 5th-century mosaic is a symbol of Jewish defiance.
Jews return to Catania.
Family heirlooms and the memories they preserve.
Neither Sephardi nor Ashkenazi.