Old synagogues of Tiberias

The Ancient synagogues of Tiberias are a group of synagoues in the old part of Tiberias, Israel, that date form the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

They include:

The "Etz Chaim," synagogue or Abulafia synagogue, established in 1742 by Rabbi Chaim Abulafia on the site of earlier synagogues.
A North African synagogue.
a synagogue of the Karlin-Stolin (Hasidic dynasty)
a synagogue of the Lubavich Chasidim
The "El Senor" Sephardic synagogue, now a standing ruin with an intact roof

Karlin-Stolin Hasidim arrived in the Holy Land in the mid 1800s, settling in Tiberias, Hebron and Safed. In 1869 they redeemed the site of a former synagogue in Tiberias which had been built in 1786 by Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk and destroyed in the earthquake of 1837. Construction of a new synagogue started in 1870 and was assisted by funds from the diaspora. The synagogue has a notable Torah Ark in Eastern European style.

Rabbi Chaim Abulafiah immigrated to Tiberias from Istanbul in 1740 at the invitation of al-Omar, the synagogue he built still stands, although it underwent major reconstruction following the earthquakes of 1759 and 1837 and the great flood of 1934. ^[1] ^[2]

References

^ The Jews in Palestine in the eighteenth century: under the patronage of the Istanbul Committee of Officials for Palestine, By Y. Barnay, Translated by Naomi Goldblum University of Alabama Press, 1992, p. 15, 16
^ The Jews: their history, culture, and religion, Louis Finkelstein Edition: 3 Harper, New York, 1960, p. 659

[1] The Jews in Palestine in the eighteenth century: under the patronage of the Istanbul Committee of Officials for Palestine, By Y. Barnay, Translated by Naomi Goldblum University of Alabama Press, 1992, p. 15, 16

[2] The Jews: their history, culture, and religion, Louis Finkelstein Edition: 3 Harper, New York, 1960, p. 659

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