19301930 · Lublin
Yeshiva of the Sages of Lublin and Jewish Lublin
Lublin's Jews, about a third of the city before 1939, had made it a centre of learning since the sixteenth century, when the Council of Four Lands met at its fairs. In 1930 Rabbi Meir Shapiro opened the Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin, a purpose-built academy with lecture hall, dormitory and library. The Germans destroyed the Jewish quarter below the castle; the yeshiva building survives.
Sites
- Site 1: Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin, Lubartowska StreetThe restored lecture hall, used again as a synagogue, with a small exhibition.Map ↗
- Site 2: Old Jewish CemeteryHillside tombstones from the sixteenth century, among the oldest in Poland.Map ↗
- Site 3: Grodzka Gate – NN TheatreMemory centre on the vanished Jewish quarter, in the old gate between the town and castle.Map ↗
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