The treasures of the Dąbrowa synagogue are the beautiful polychrome paintings that provide an interpretative key to the most important truths of the faith and history of the People of God, the motives of their calling by Yahweh and their ideas, including messianism (the circle of the Leviathan, whose end is a mystical beginning, in relation to the history of the world and the fate of man). On the walls, you can find key objects alluding to the Jewish memorial of the Jerusalem Temple: the shulchan (table for 12 loaves of showbread, menorah, offering baskets), sacred sites (tombs of the patriarchs, Mount Carmel with Elijah’s cave, David’s citadel, Golden Gate, Jaffa Gate), biblical motifs (Egyptian captivity, Babylonian captivity, the Flood). The ceiling depicts the sky, which is decorated with stars (including the Shield of David) and paintings showing 4 crowns with the Torah, the Leviathan and images of an eagle with its young, and swallows showing the relationship between Yahweh and the People of God. The display cases and plaques bring together information, artefacts, and documents about over 200 years of history of the Polish-Jewish settlement in Dąbrowa – a typical Galician shtetel. Two surviving Sefer Torah scrolls from the pre-war synagogue were placed in a niche in the east wall, along with a special pointer for reading it. The most difficult issues were not overlooked: the Holocaust, the struggle of Polish patriots against communist terror, and the exodus of Polish Jews in the 1950s and 1960s.
Large Room, Meeting of Cultures Centre
Beacon