The Swiss villages where synagogues told the time

The Swiss villages where synagogues told the time,
by Evelyne Dreyfus & Eric Beracassat, K: Jews, Europe, the XXIˢᵗ century, 2025-11-27.

In Switzerland, two villages that are now almost empty of Jews preserve traces of a long-forgotten history: for centuries, Endingen and Lengnau were the only places where Jews were allowed to live in Switzerland. Synagogues in the center of the village, houses with double doors, mikvahs, a communal cemetery: a world of fragile balances and forced coexistence. Journalist Evelyne Dreyfus and photographer Eric Beracassat returned to these lands where, in the past, it was the synagogue that told the time—and where the memory of an almost erased community still lives on in the stones and in the names.