Bardejov, town in Slovakia, on the Polish border. Jews, mainly from Galicia, settled in Bardejov in the 18th century. Jewish residence in Bardejov was formally authorized around the beginning of the 19th century. The synagogue was built in 1808. A main Jewish occupation was export of wine to Poland, and Jewish enterprise helped to develop Bardejov as a fashionable health resort in the early 19th century. Ritual objects from Bardejov are preserved in the Divrei Hayyim synagogue in Jerusalem, named in honor of R. Hayyim Halberstamm, whose descendants were rabbis in Bardejov.