Built in 1364, the Medieval Jewish Prayer House, a small, two-room Sephardic synagogue in the Buda Castle — a UNESCO World Heritage Site — was taken from the Jews after a devastating pogrom in ...

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 ...

During the medieval Good Friday service, Christians prayed for the "perfidious" – or deceitful – Jews that God might "remove the veil from their hearts so that they would know Jesus Christ." ...

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.

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.

A medieval building that may have been used as a synagogue has been uncovered at the site of Huqoq, a village near the Sea of Galilee in Israel. Constructed during the 12th to 13thcenturies, the ...

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.

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 ...