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Old Synagogue (Krakow)
Matteo Gucci
1557–1570
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Mateo Gucci was a Polish-Italian Renaissance architect and sculptor working in Kraków. Little is known about him, but he is believed to have designed the city’s rebuilt Old Synagogue and may also have played a role in the renovation of the Wawel Castle from 1507 to 1536.
The German holy community of Amsterdam was founded in the year 5396 [1635/6]. This I discovered in a few pages of a book written by Maharam Maarsen, one of the first German Jews in Amsterdam…