Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva

The Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva on Lubartowska Street was built in 1930 as the grandest Jewish educational institution in Europe, designed to house 400 students and a library of 22,000 volumes. Its founder, Rabbi Meir Shapiro, also invented the concept of Daf Yomi — a daily page of Talmud study followed by Jews worldwide, so that all study the same page on the same day. Millions of Jews follow the programme today.

The building survived the war and the communist period and has been restored and reopened as a functioning synagogue, cultural centre, and small hotel. The restoration is excellent. Visiting includes the synagogue, exhibition rooms about the yeshiva's history and Rabbi Shapiro's life, and a glimpse of what Jewish Lublin was building toward before it was destroyed.

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The Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva opened in 1930 after years of fundraising across Europe and America, designed to be the largest and most modern yeshiva in the world. Its library held 22,000 volumes. Nine years later, the Nazis arrived. The rabbi who built it, Meir Shapiro, had died in 1933 — he did not live to see its destruction. After the war the building served as a medical academy; it was returned to the Jewish community in 1997 and restored.