JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. YESHIVA CHACHMEI LUBLIN, POLAND
Thursday, Adar 21, 5775. March 12, 2015. Shalom! World. The Former Academy of Sages of Lublin was financed from contributions of Jewish communities from all over the world and opened in 1930. At the time it was the largest Talmudic school in the world. The imposing edifice was designed by Agenor Smoluchowski and erected in the years 1924-1930. Yeshiva was closed down by the nazis in 1939. After World War II it was given to the Medical Academy and housed the Collegium Maius until 2003. Presently it belongs to the Jewish Community in Warszawa - the Branch in Lublin, Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin, was one of the largest Jewish educational initiatives in Orthodox circles in the interwar period, not only in Poland, but even in Europe. Modern, well equipped, the Lublin yeshiva was to be a world center of Talmud study training young students of Torah of Poland and the world. The war put a end to those plans yet the 'Palace of Talmud' as Rabbi Shapiro called his creation, none...