KOLBUSZOWA EMERGENCY CAMPAIGN:
On May 2, 2025 a large section of the front retaining wall of the Kolbuszowa Jewish cemetery accidentally collapsed, just two weeks after structural decay was noticed by a local resident. Please consider donating urgently to help us support efforts to fund the restoration of this wall and protect the integrity of the remains and the tombstones of those buried behind the wall!
To read more about this incident, see Polish media coverage.
On May 2, 2025 a large section of the front retaining wall of the Kolbuszowa Jewish cemetery accidentally collapsed, just two weeks after structural decay was noticed by a local resident. Please consider donating urgently to help us support efforts to fund the restoration of this wall and protect the integrity of the remains and the tombstones of those buried behind the wall!
To read more about this incident, see Polish media coverage.
An incredible effort is underway in Lublin to restore access to one of the world’s largest collections of Jewish religious texts, once thought to have been destroyed by the Germans. The Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin, which held tens of thousands of Jewish religious texts and prints, was built in interwar Lublin and was intended to be a leader of Jewish education.
After the Holocaust, the yeshiva’s collections were gone, thought by many to have been destroyed. However, researchers have recently discovered many intact volumes in the archives of the Jewish Historical Institute and in collections across the world. Thanks to the devoted efforts of Piotr Nazaruk of Lublin’s Brama Grodzka, researchers in Lublin are working to restore the Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin collection by bringing texts back to the city and creating a digital collection of scanned copies.
With the generous support of David and Sherry Elbaum, FJHP is also contributing to the Brama Grodzka project and the work of the Jewish Historical Institute of Warsaw to scan further volumes.
The images shown here are a few sample pages of recently scanned works, featuring the official Yeshiva library stamp and pages from the responsa Sefer Shei Lamora (1653, Thessaloniki), the kabbalistic work Sefer Ir miklat (1690, Dyhernfurth) and Sefer Tiferet Israel (1774, Frankfurt an der Oder), the last of which is the first book mentioning the Vilna Gaon during his lifetime.
After the Holocaust, the yeshiva’s collections were gone, thought by many to have been destroyed. However, researchers have recently discovered many intact volumes in the archives of the Jewish Historical Institute and in collections across the world. Thanks to the devoted efforts of Piotr Nazaruk of Lublin’s Brama Grodzka, researchers in Lublin are working to restore the Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin collection by bringing texts back to the city and creating a digital collection of scanned copies.
With the generous support of David and Sherry Elbaum, FJHP is also contributing to the Brama Grodzka project and the work of the Jewish Historical Institute of Warsaw to scan further volumes.
The images shown here are a few sample pages of recently scanned works, featuring the official Yeshiva library stamp and pages from the responsa Sefer Shei Lamora (1653, Thessaloniki), the kabbalistic work Sefer Ir miklat (1690, Dyhernfurth) and Sefer Tiferet Israel (1774, Frankfurt an der Oder), the last of which is the first book mentioning the Vilna Gaon during his lifetime.
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