Malka's Jewish House (Żydowski dom Malki)

The story

Jews are documented in Rymanów from at least 1567, with a kehilla, a synagogue first mentioned in 1593, and a cemetery all in place by the end of that century. Trade centred on the Rynek, and the Jewish quarter lay northwest of it around the synagogue. The community stayed close to half the town for centuries: about 42.8 percent in 1765, roughly 47 percent on a 1786 tax roll, 42.6 percent in 1880, near 47 percent around 1898, and about 40 percent in 1921. From the 18th century Rymanów was a centre of Hasidism in western Galicia under Menachem Mendel, and it drew pilgrims well into the modern era. The community was destroyed in August 1942. This building, known as Malka's Jewish House, survives as a recognised domestic remnant of that town.

Everything that was here

until 1942
Malka's Jewish House (Żydowski dom Malki)Landmark
One house is all that is left standing of the Jewish town that was nearly half of Rymanów.
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Did you know?

Isidor Isaac Rabi, born in Rymanów in 1898, won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physics for nuclear magnetic resonance — the principle behind the MRI scanner.

The first synagogue here is recorded in 1593, two centuries before the town became famous for Hasidism.

Rymanów was close to evenly split between Catholic and Jewish residents for most of its modern history.