Abstract
Few Polish cities have evoked more affection among their Jewish inhabitants than Kraków. In his essay ‘Kraków błogosławionej pamièęci’ (‘Kraków of Blessed Memory’), Rafael Scharf refers to its ‘singular charm’: It was small and beautiful . . . Surrounded by the ring of the Planty, in springtime brimming with white jasmine and lilac, with enchanting little byways, a ‘swan lake’, statues of Grażyna, Grottger, and Michał Bałucki. There was Wa w el Castle with its cathedral, the great bell of King Zygmunt, the ‘Dragon’s Cave’, the monument to Tadeusz Kościuszko, views over the bend of the bend of the river...