THE HISTORY
1717
The first Jews appear in the area of Ostrów.
1724
The Jewish community is established and is granted a privilege by the town owner Jan Jerzy Przebendowski. The first synagogue is built and the first cemetery is established.
1773
The Jewish community employs the first permanent rabbi Jacob Lande.
1780
A new cemetery is established in the area of Ostrów.
1790
A ritual Jewish bath is built in Ostrów.
1835
A Jewish elementary school is established in the town.
1841
A two-storey school building is erected on Raszkowska Street.
1849
Abraham Berliner, the first Jew, passes the school leaving exams in the Royal Catholic High School.
1857
The cornerstone is laid for the new synagogue on Raszkowska Street.
1860
The new synagogue in Moorish Revival style is finished (its creator is Moritz Landé, the grandson of the first rabbi).
1861
The Jewish population in Ostrów reaches its highest number in the community”s history (1,919 inhabitants)
1867
A new ritual bath is built in Ostrów.
1872
19 people die in a catastrophe in the synagogue.
1874
The Jewish religion starts to be taught in the Royal Catholic High School.
1887
The Association of Jewish History and Literature is established in Ostrów.
1899
One of the streets in Ostrów (today’s northern part of Plac 23 Stycznia – 23rd January Square) is named after Israel Meir Freimann (1830-1884), a local rabbi.
1919
Otto Landsberg żydowski absolwent ostrowskiego Gimnazjum zostaje niemieckim ministrem sprawiedliwości.
1919-1921
A majority of Jews leave Ostrów and move to Germany (only a few dozens of Jews stay).
1935
The Jewish community employs its last rabbi Markus Halberstamm, who commutes to Ostrów from Kępno.
1940
The Jews are deported to the ghetto in Łódź. The Jewish quarter (so-called Zielony Rynek – Green Market) and both Jewish cemeteries are destroyed.
2006
The Association of Friends of Ostrów Synagogue is established; one of its founders is Bettina Landé-Tergeist, the great-great-granddaughter of Moritz Landé – the builder of Ostrów synagogue.
2006
The town of Ostrów concludes an agreement with the Jewish community in Wrocław (Breslau) and buys the synagogue.
2007
The first volume of „Studia Iudaica Ostroviensia”is published.
2009
Two lapidaria are built in the places where Jewish cemeteries used to be located.
2009
Renovation works begin in the synagogue.
2009
The second volume of „Studia Iudaica Ostroviensia”is published.
2011
The opening ceremony of the renovated synagogue is held.
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63-400 Ostrów Wielkopolski
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