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  Beit Midrash of the Gerer Rebbe in Góra Kalwaria, Poland

© Vladimir Levin, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 2004

The Synagogue in Góra Kalwaria was built in 1905 instead of the former, wooden building, which had burnt down. It was the synagogue of the tzadiks from the Alter dynasty. During World War II, the synagogue was devastated by the Germans. After the war, the building was transformed into a shop and factory of soda-water. In 2000 the building was returned to the Jewish community in Warsaw.
The only elements to have survived in the building’s interior are cast-iron pillars from the gallery.

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Beit Midrash of the Gerer Rebbe in Góra Kalwaria | Unknown
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1905
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After 1945
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Court Beit Midrash of the most powerful Hasidic dinasty in Poland.

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Sources
Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 47 with ill.; Przemysław Burchard, Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warszawa, 1990)., p. 86; Eleonora Bergman, “Góra Kalwaria: The Impact of a Hasidic Cult on the Urban Landscape of a Small Polish Town,” Polin 5 (1990): 15; http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/gora-kalwaria/11,synagogues-prayer-houses-and-others/227,synagogue-at-pijarska-10-12-/
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