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unusual facts about Great Synagogue, Łomża



Great Synagogue, Białystok

The last official rabbi of Białystok, Dr. Gedali Rozenman, at the end of the prayer and Jewish hymn "Hatikvah" would intone the Polish national anthem "Jeszcze Polska nie zginela".

Great Synagogue, Jasło

The Forest Hill Jewish Centre has recently announced plans to rebuild the façade of the Jasło Synagogue as the façade of its new building on Spadina Road in Toronto, Canada.

Great Synagogue, Łomża

It was built in 1878-1889 on the initiative of Rabbi Eliezer-Simcha Rabinowicz, and designed by an Italian-Polish architect Enrico Marconi from Congress Poland.

Gustav Friedrich Hetsch

Though most of his accomplishments were in the area of decorative art, Hetsch also designed the Great Synagogue (1833) and St. Ansgar's Church (1842) in Copenhagen.

Maria Piłsudska

After seven years, they married on July 15, 1899, at the village of Paproć Duża near Łomża.

Masovians

Originally, their main settlements were in the area of Płock, Łomża, Wizna, Czersk, Ciechanów, Płońsk, Zakroczym and Grójec.

Moshe Shatzkes

Moshe Shatzkes (1881–1958) was a renowned rabbi, Talmudic scholar and noted genius, commonly known as the "Lomzshe/Łomża Rov".

In 1931, he was asked to become rabbi and Av Beth Din of Łomża.

Naftoli Shapiro

He studied in the Łomża Kollel under the renowned Gaon Rabbi Aaron Yosef Bakst, and received semicha at the age of 23 from Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor.

Rotki

During German occupation of Poland, the Nazis set up a stone quarry in Rotki for the purpose of slave labor by the Polish Jews from the Łomża Ghetto.

Siemiechów, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Ignacy, the third son of Jan (castellan of Wizna, near Łomza), and Ewa Trojanowska, brother of Adam (a bishop), and Michał Hieronim Krasiński (great-grandfather of world famous Polish poet, Count Zygmunt Krasiński).


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