The Kazimierz

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In 1335 Polish king Kazimierz The Great found a new city, next to Cracow, Kazimierz. At this time it wasn’t a Jewish town. In 1495 another Polish king John Olbracht made Jewish move out of Cracow, to Kazimierz. In XVI century Kazimierz was the biggest Jewish cluster in Europe. The first rabbi and scholar was Jakub Polak. He found a Jewish school which very fast became very famous.
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The Jewish Kazimierz

Before the World War II Kazimierz was called The Small Jerusalem. Nowadays you can admire synagogues (specially the Old Synagogue, which is the oldest Jewish temple in Poland) and Jewish cemeteries as a symbol of more then 600 years of history of this nation here.

The Christian Kazimierz

It was build as a satellite city to Cracow. According to German law, the Polish king – Kazimierz Wielki, found the Corpus Christi’s Church, as a parish one. But it wasn’t the first church in the neighborhood. From XI century there was a Christian temple, which, following the tradition, was a place of death St. Stanislaw – the Cracow’s bishop.
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