אוהל החוזה מלובלין

Lublin — Ohel of the Chozeh of Lublin

Lublin · לובלין

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Old Jewish cemetery, on the hill between ulica Kalinowszczyzna and ulica Sienna, Lublin, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland

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1.IT IS NOT OPEN TO WALK INTO. The old cemetery is kept locked and is opened for arranged visits rather than to whoever arrives. The Lublin branch of the Warsaw Jewish community is the address for it — ulica Lubartowska 85, telephone +48 501 667 810. Arrange it before you build a day around it.
2.IT IS THE OLDEST JEWISH CEMETERY LEFT IN POLAND, in use from the sixteenth century, on a loess hill between Kalinowszczyzna and Sienna that had been a medieval fortress before it was a burial ground. Its brick and stone wall dates from the seventeenth century.
3.ABOUT TWO HUNDRED MATZEVOS AND FRAGMENTS SURVIVE on a ground that buried Lublin for three hundred years. Conservation work was done on the stones in 2018, so what you see has been tended rather than merely left.
4.SURVEYED COORDINATES. The map point on this listing is the cemetery itself, measured on the ground by the ESJF survey — not a town centre. Where a kever is inside an ohel it will still need finding once you are through the gate, but the gate is now something you can navigate to.

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Lublin (LUZ)Lublin· 9.4 km · 6 mi straight-line· regional
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Rzeszów (RZE)Rzeszów-Jasionka· 133 km · 83 mi straight-line· regional
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Warsaw (WAW)Warsaw Chopin· 151 km · 94 mi straight-line· major hub
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Who is buried here

Known kevarim

רבי יעקב יצחק הורוביץ

Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Horowitz

The Chozeh (Seer) of Lublin

זאת זכרון · זכרון זאת · דברי אמת

Yahrzeit: ט׳ אב · 5575 / 1815

Teacher of the Yid HaKadosh, the Kozhnitzer Maggid's circle, and many of the great Polish rebbes.

רבי שלמה לוריא

Rabbi Shlomo Luria

The Maharshal

ים של שלמה · חכמת שלמה

Niftar 1573. Rosh yeshiva in Lublin and one of the foremost poskim of Ashkenaz; the Maharshal shul in Lublin carried his name.

רבי שלום שכנא

Rabbi Shalom Shachna ben Yosef

Founder of the Lublin yeshiva

Niftar 1558. Rebbe of the Rema, and the man who made Lublin a place people came to learn.

רבי יעקב קאפעלמאן הלוי

Rabbi Yaakov Kopelman ben Yehuda HaLevi

Niftar 1541. His matzeivah is the oldest Jewish gravestone in Poland still standing where it was set.

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