Full-Day Tour of Southern Galicia (Friday, May 25, 2007)

 Itinerary

 Kraków - Nowy Sacz - Bobowa - Dabrowa Tarnowska - Tarnow - Zbylitowska Gora - Kraków

This tour takes you to the southern part of Galicia southeast of Kraków in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. You will have a chance to experience the great variety of Galicia Jewry. Places connected with Hassidic Sages are close to main centers of Haskala and later of Zionism.

 Places you will see: 

• Nowy Sacz - strong center of Hassidism in the past with the only one Hassidic prayer house still operating. Synagogue from 1746 with Judaic exhibition. Impressive Jewish cemetery.
   

• Bobowa - center of Bobowa Hassidism. Beautiful restored synagogue from 1756. Jewish cemetery with the ohel (tomb) of tzaddik Chaim Jakub from Bobowa and tzaddik Salomon Halberstam from Bobowa.
   
• Dabrowa Tarnowska - ruins of a monumental synagogue from 1868. Small Judaic Museum organized in former shtible (prayer house). Jewish cemetery.
   
• Tarnow - before WW II, almost half of the city’s 50,000 inhabitants were Jewish. Tarnow was a very strong center of Zionism in Galicia. Now only traces of a few pre-war synagogues remain. Large and well preserved Jewish cemetery.
   
• Zbylitowska Gora - monument to 10.000 people mainly Jews from Tarnow murdered by Nazis in that place during WW II.