Kloyz

A collection of kloyzn throughout Europe.
Left to right, from top:
Terebovlia, Ukraine
Mannheim, Germany
Hamburg, Germany

A kloyz (pl. kloyzn; Yiddish: קלויז) or a hesger (pl. hesgerim) was an Ashkenazi, Ottoman, or Italian Jewish house of study and worship popular during the 16th to 19th centuries. It is closely related to a beth midrash, though the two are different in the fact that unlike the often-public batei midrash, kloyzn were private and often regarded as elite institutions.

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