Ohel Moshe Synagogue (Warsaw)
The Ohel Moshe Synagogue of Warsaw was a Zionist school synagogue in the Polish capital Warsaw , which was named in memory of Moses Montefiore Ohel Mosche (אהל משה).
history
The Ohel Moshe Synagogue , which was founded in 1885 by the Society of the Zionist Hovevei Zion (חובבי ציון), was the only Zionist synagogue in Warsaw alongside a Zionist Moriah synagogue . The service was held in Yiddish . The building was also a synagogue for the traditional, religious and Zionist Polish part of the Warsaw Jewish community.
Zionist organizations such as the Hovevei Zion or the Menuha ve Nahalah Society were very successful in Warsaw at the end of the 18th century, with the Society of the Hovevei Zion of Warsaw being founded by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof . The Hovevei Zion Society also opened the first modern Zionist heder metukkan and synagogue on Nalewki Street in Warsaw . This new building was financed by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, who worked on the first ever written Yiddish grammar , which was published under the pseudonym “Dr. X ”was published in 1909.
The Ohel Mosche Synagogue was destroyed by the National Socialists on May 15, 1943, in the course of the suppression of the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto .
literature
- Carol Herselle Krinsky: Europe's Synagogues: Architecture, History and Significance . Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-925037-89-6 , p. 448 (American English: Synagogues of Europe . Translated by Bettina Witsch-Aldor).
Web links
- Virtuelles Stettl - Warszawa (Warsaw) Online project and source collection on the history of Polish Jews. The “Ohel Moshe Synagogue” has not yet been entered there.