A highly significant find, this 14th-century synagogue is a rare example of Jewish religious life in medieval Spain. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Radiocarbon dating and micromorphology show the Galilee landmark was built about two centuries later than earlier style-based ...

MADRID — Archaeologists working in a town in southwestern Spain have excavated a 14th-century Sephardic synagogue, revealing a fully intact floor plan including a women’s section and ritual baths.

The Old Synagogue in Erfurt, Germany, seen Sept. 11, ... — A United Nations committee designated a group of medieval Jewish buildings in Erfurt, Germany, as a World Heritage Site on Sunday.

Archaeologists in the southern Spanish town of Utrera confirmed on Tuesday they had uncovered a 14th-century synagogue hidden within a building that was later converted into a church, hospital and ...

Medieval England’s Jews didn’t just work in finance. “Some would be selling wine, food, cheese,” Marcus Roberts, the director of J-Trails, an Anglo-Jewish heritage organization, explained.

A medieval-era Slovenian synagogue was defaced with antisemitic graffiti on Sunday night, according to Maribor Synagogue ...

The Old Synagogue dates back to the 1090s, when its first stones were laid.A pogrom in 1349, triggered by antisemitic canards blaming Jews for the Black Plague, wiped out the entire local Jewish ...

Researchers also suggest that the synagogue’s use as a warehouse, restaurant and dancehall over the centuries may have been what kept the Nazis from destroying it. There were 831 Jews in Erfurt before ...