Les Juifs de Lublin

Lublin, in eastern Poland, was one of the great centers of Ashkenazi Talmudic learning from the late Middle Ages onward, earning the name "the Jerusalem of the Kingdom of Poland." Home to a renowned yeshivah and the meeting place of the Council of Four Lands (Va'ad Arba Aratzot), the city gathered Hebrew printers, rabbinical decisors, and, in the modern era, major Hasidic centers and the Hokhmei Lublin founded in the twentieth century. Its Jews were merchants, artisans, and scholars, and the community remained one of the most vibrant in Poland until the Second World War. Under Nazi occupation, the ghetto was liquidated and virtually the entire population exterminated, notably as part of Aktion Reinhard and at the nearby camp of Majdanek.

Sources & resources

• The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ↗
• Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan