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Dabrowa Tarnowska
The synagogue in Dabrowa Tarnowska, though
half-ruined, is still very impressive. It was designed by Abraham
Goldstein. Funds for the construction were provided by Ayzik Stern. In
1937 amajor overhaul of the building took place under the supervision of
Dorota Mertz from Tarnow. This is when an amazing three-storied gallery
was added. The synagogue functioned in this unusual form for no more
than two years. At the beginning of the German occupation, the Nazis
turned it into astorehouse and the building was used for this purpose
until around 1970.
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Dabrowa Tarnowska was one of the most
important centres of Chasidism in Poland. Alarge group of eminent
tzaddikim hailed from here. They were headed by David Unger, dynasty
founder and disciple of the Seer of Lublin, and by Cwi Hirsz Rymanower,
later tzaddik of Rymanow. The graves of the Ungers are in the cemetery
situated next to the synagogue. Attempts were made in 1997 to locate
them with the aid of diviners, but their rods failed them when
confronted with the power of the cemetery's magnetic field. Asmall
Jewish community somehow managed to survive here throughout the Second
World War. They prayed at first in the synagogue's vestibule and then in
aprivate house of prayer. The last of them, Samuel Roth, died in 1995.
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