In the south-eastern part is the table that serves as the bimah in the last shtiebel (House of Prayer) in Dąbrowa and one of the last in Galicia, set up in the 1970s in the flat of Samuel Roth. Most of the Judaica on display at the Meeting of Cultures Centre comes from this religious site, the former Jewish Museum established in Dąbrowa after Roth’s death on the initiative of Jerzy Rzeszuta and the Friends of the Dąbrowa Region Society. Among the artefacts are phylacteries (tefillin) used by Roth, a lulav (dried willow branches used during sukkah, the Feast of Ingathering), numerous prayer books in Hebrew and Yiddish (for women). There is also Samuel Roth’s hat and hanukkiahs (lanterns used during Hanukkah). Against the south wall stands an authentic Torah scroll cabinet (aron-ha-Kodesh) with a curtain (parochet) embroidered with the Star of David. From the mid-1970s until 1995, the cabinet contained five sacred Torah scrolls read during Jewish services. The painting on the crowning of the Torah ark is the work of Mejer Roth, Samuel’s artistically gifted brother, and depicts the storage place of the holy Book of the Covenant with the People of God, as is tradition. The second cabinet (located on the eastern side) comes from Abraham Ladner’s House of Prayer, the last one in Tarnów, and is a holding of the Tarnów Regional Museum.
Prayer Room, Meeting of Cultures Centre
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