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as a warehouse. Although the building was damaged in 1942 during the ghetto's liquidation, it remained standing until 1959. At that time, it was confiscated by the communist government and transformed into a theatre, known today as Cinema Belarus. A plaque outside memorializes the synagogue. In
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An old synagogue had stood in Brest for nearly a century, having been built in 1759. However, in 1847, its building was either destroyed or had burned down, and funds were collected to erect a new building. The building took years to complete due to a lack of funding; despite the construction's
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Brest was home to a flourishing Orthodox Jewish community. At the time of the original synagogue's destruction, the city's rabbi was Rabbi Yaakov Meir Padua. In fact, he personally drew up the blueprints for the new synagogue. However, he died in 1855 before the building's completion. He was
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succeeded by Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Orenstein, an influential rabbi who opened a communal hospital and an old age home. However he was exiled by the authorities in1874 and succeeded by Rabbi
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commencement being in 1851, the structure was only completed in 1861/1862. In 1859, a fire ravaged the synagogue but it was restored. In 1941, with the creation of the
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during World War II, the synagogue sat on the ghetto border, next to its entrance, and was used by the
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addition, Hebrew inscriptions are still visible in the basement.
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Affiliation
Orthodox Judaism
Ecclesiastical or organisational status
Synagogue
Brest
Belarus
Choral Synagogue (Brest) is located in Belarus
Belarus
Geographic coordinates
52°05′27″N 23°41′41″E / 52.0908°N 23.6946°E / 52.0908; 23.6946
Synagogue architecture
Style
Orthodox
Jewish
synagogue
Brest
Yiddish
Belarus
Brest Ghetto
Nazis
Yehoshua Leib Diskin
yeshiva
Torah scholars
secular
Haskalah
British Mandate
Yosef Dov Soloveitchik
Chaim Soloveitchik
Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik

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