Synagoga Izaaka Jakubowicza
The Isaak Jakubowicz Synagogue—Synagoga Izaaka Jakubowicza—is an Orthodox Jewish house of worship completed in 1644, and it remains one of Kraków’s most distinctive Baroque-era synagogues. The building was designed by Giovanni Battista Trevano and is named for its donor, Izaak Jakubowicz, known as “Isaac the Rich,” a banker to King Ladislaus IV of Poland (Izaak died in 1673). What gives this synagogue its extra historical charge is the story attached to its patron. In the early 19th century, the Polish rebbe Simcha Bunim of Peshischa transmitted a founding legend about Ayzik Jakubowicz and hidden treasure in Prague—ending with the idea that wealth can be found “in your own home,” after travel and risk. During World War II, Nazi forces destroyed the synagogue’s interior and furnishings, including the bimah and the Aron Kodesh. …
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