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Sephardic Mikvah discovered in basement of former strip club in Poland

The former synagogue in Chmielnik, Poland. (Wojciech Domagała/Wikimedia Commons) Before the Holocaust, the population of the town of Chmielnik, Poland, was around 80% Jewish. Sephardic Jews, having been expelled from Spain during the Inquisition, settled in Chmielnik and eventually built a synagogue in 1638. After the war, only four Jews …

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