Following the picture from a 1950's Polish book about Polish buildings in which Polish Jewish buildings are almost invisible (see 22nd July on Churchill)), I post a picture of one in Kracow dating from the 15th century, from Wikipedia. Not to mention the many pictures which must have survived the destruction of the buildings themselves in the Second World War. Which confirms my suspicion that there is no good reason for the lack of visibility.
Wikipedia also tells me that Jews started arriving in Poland at roughly the same time that William the Conqueror was arriving here. They appear to have been welcome for the first 500 years or so of their stay, but this welcome faded with the decline of the Polish kingdom and the rise of the partitions.
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