Kantstrasse Synagogue

After World War I, Dr. Jechiel Weinberg—a Polish-born, Litvak-trained scholar who would later serve as rector of a rabbinical seminary—taught at the synagogue at 8 Kantstrasse, in today’s Charlottenburg locality of Berlin; his students, a group of Mitnagdim (opponents of Hasidic Judaism) were financed by a wealthy Jew who founded the group. Among the rabbi’s students were Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits and Rabbi Josef Hirsch Dunner. The synagogue association that maintained the house of worship on Kantstrasse also operated a Torat Chesed school (at 22 Leibnitzstrasse) and a Talmud Torah society. There is no evidence of this association ever having received subsidies from the official Jewish community of Berlin (whose purpose was to oversee Jewish community and religious life in the whole city), suggesting that the Kantstrasse synagogue was financially supported by the abovementioned founder. The interior of the Kantstrasse synagogue was damaged on Pogrom Night.

Esther Sarah Evans

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Sources: Ashkenaz House, www.ashkenazhouse.org/synagogue-main.htm Die Berliner Privatsynagogen und ihre Rabbiner 1671-1971, Max Sinasohn [author and publisher], 1971; www.revach.net/article.php?id=3356; lukeford.net/blog/?p=9199

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Date Added	Jan 22, 2020
Category	Synagogue
Country	DE
State	Berlin
City	Berlin
Exhibits	Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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Kantstrasse Synagogue

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