Jewish school

As a Jewish school during were the Middle Ages and in modern times in German-speaking countries, the colloquially synagogues referred.

The synagogues were also places of prayer ( Beth Tefila ), learning and the gathering of the Jewish community in the diaspora .

The word schul or schil has also survived in Yiddish .

Martin Luther translated the word synagogue in his transmission of the Old Testament into German school .

See also

• Cheder
• Klaus (school)

literature

• Beth ha-Knesseth - meeting place. On the history of the Munich synagogues, their rabbis and cantors. Catalog for the exhibition in the Jewish Museum Munich (December 2, 1999– May 31, 2000). Buchendorfer Verlag , Munich 1999, ISBN 3-934036-09-0 , p. 17 and P. 22 note 11.