This may have been your ancestors’ shul
A Boston couple leads 10-year effort to revive a lost chapter in Polish Jewish history
By Penny Schwartz
Special to the Advocate
Imagine you’re traveling in the Polish- Lithuanian commonwealth several centuries ago and sought out a shul to celebrate Shabbos services.
You would likely have gone to one of the 200 wooden-framed synagogues that had been built in the area in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Today, none of them exist. The Nazis burned the last one some 70 years ago. The full version of this story is only available to online subscribers.
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