Adas Jeschurun

Synagogue - Cologne (Köln, Koeln), North Rhine-Westphalia

"In 1904, when a decision was made to put a musical instrument, an organ, in the synagogue on Roonstrasse, more Orthodox Jews withdrew from the mainstream community and formed another prayer association called the Kehillass Jisroel. In 1906, when the organ was finally installed, the Adass Jeschurun association formally withdrew from the community, incorporated the members of Kehillass Jisroel and, in 1908, became an independent synagogue association and a center of Orthodoxy for the entire Rhineland region. Its synagogue was located on St. Apernstrasse and had seating for 160 men and 80 women, with a mikveh in the cellar...[on Pogrom Night] On St. Apernstrasse, Gestapo men confiscated the Adass Jeschurun synagogue’s Torah scrolls and moveable furniture; they also took the archives and cash box, destroyed the building’s interior using axes and clubs, tore down the Star of David, and threw benches out the windows. That synagogue was not set on fire because a school and a fuel depot were located nearby... several memorial plaques have been unveiled: one near the site of theformer St. Apernstrasse synagogue."

Bronagh Bowerman

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

Notes

Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica (First Edition), Cecil Roth and Geoffery Wigoder [Eds.], [publisher] Keter Publishing House, Jerusalem and Macmillan Company, New York The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Shmuel Spector [Ed.], [publisher] Yad Vashem and the New York University Press, 2001., - Die Juden in Deutschland von der Römerzeit bis zur Weimarer Republik, Nachum T. Gidal, [publisher] Könemann, 1997, Lexikon der jüdischen Gemeinde in Deutschen Sprachraum, Klaus Dieter-Alicke, [publisher] Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2008., Feuer in dein Heiligtum gelegt: Zerstörte Synagogen 1938 Nordrhein-Westfalen, Michael Brooke [Ed.], Meier Schwarz [foreword], [publisher] Kamp, 1999.

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Date Added	Feb 12, 2020
Category	Synagogue
Country	DE
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
City	Cologne (Köln, Koeln)
Exhibits	Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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Adas Jeschurun

Bronagh Bowerman

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

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