AJL Roundtable: The Cache of Lublin Yeshiva Books in Warsaw: A Discovery Thursday, February 5, 2026 9:00 am PT / noon ET / 7:00 pm Israel Time
The fate of the library of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin is one of the greatest mysteries from the postwar history of Lublin, if not from the history of Jewish heritage in Poland. Some, with no exaggeration, compare it to the Amber Room—the Yeshiva book collection consisting of tens of thousands of volumes, including priceless and extremely rare, old Hebrew prints, vanished almost without a trace. For years, historians and journalists have been searching for it in vain, and only five volumes seemed to have survived from this vast library. In recent years, however, a laborious search has made it possible to identify and catalogue nearly sixteen hundred books bearing various provenances of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin, scattered in libraries, yeshivot, private collections, or even damp basements around the world. In his presentation, Piotr Nazaruk, the coordinator of the search, will delve into the turbulent post-war history of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin library collection and report the newest developments in his project. Piotr Nazaruk is an educator, curator, and researcher at the Grodzka Gate–NN Theater Center in Lublin, Poland, focusing on researching the Yiddish press and history of Lublin Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries. Currently he coordinates the Digital Yeshiva Library project Open to AJL members only. Register at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jewishlibraries.org/events-calendar/__;!!KGKeukY!z1nfJ8yTibFbSEwhKEpOWK8Rslh0RB8Vr9mctuGuReNtlPxuPDqfrtvqAYbKhYPawrMvUcyv6A6GyxwyyTi1ej9YMtyqIT23$
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