There is at least one known Yizkor book about Lesko: "Memorial book; dedicated to the Jews of Linsk, Istrik" "Sefer yizkor; mukdash le-yehudei ha-ayarot she-nispu ba-shoa be-shanim , Linsk, Istrik, Beligrod, Litovisk veha-sevivah" , published in in Tel Aviv. The JewishGen website has an English translation of this book available online. You can read the original book online at the New York Public Library website , or you can find a copy in a library near you through the free library search website WorldCat.
There may also be other Yizkor books published that cover , or larger nearby towns, or the region in which it was located; check JewishGen's Yizkor Books database for the latest details. A Yizkor book is a "book of remembrance" about a Jewish community that was destroyed in the Holocaust. Each book documents the town's history and usually gives a necrology list of the murdered at the back of the book. Most of the books were written by survivors from the town, or people from the town who had immigrated before the war, and were mostly published between and , and usually written in Hebrew or Yiddish.
Some large towns may have had more than one Yizkor book published at different times. The non-profit Jewish genealogy organization JewishGen has a comprehensive online database of Yizkor books and the towns that they document.
They also host English language translations of much of the content of the books, sponsored by the website's donors and volunteers. Many of these books have been scanned and put online for free reading at the New York Public Library's Yizkor Book website. About , Jan Kmita established a town with a market square in the centre, a network of streets around it, a church, and a manor house near the village of Lesko and within its lands. Initially, Lesko was inhabited by Poles and Ruthenians, who were joined by Jews by the midth century.
The medieval town was established at the tip of a hill, south of the village of Lesko, which lies on the San River plain. Its centre is a market square — squareshaped in this case — and several streets leading away from it, as well as a church situated northeast of the market square. West of the town, the Kmitas erected a wooden manor house, in whose place the Stadnickis later built a stone castle. During his lifetime, the town was developed, and a new large market square was established south of the old centre, with a town hall and streets.
The old one, probably dating back to the times before the town was chartered, had been located in the village of Lesko, which subsequently became a suburb known as Posada Leska. As was typically the case, the Orthodox church was surrounded by a graveyard, extended in Austrian times into a common Christian cemetery that functions to this day. In , a military cemetery for soldiers killed during World War I was established in front of it.
In subsequent years, there was a dynamic influx of Jews, probably due to the favourable legal regulations introduced by Piotr Kmita. By , there were as many as 23 tax-paying heads of Jewish families in Lesko. A qahal was established here in the third quarter of the 16th century, earlier than in the nearby older town of Sanok, which for centuries reported to the Jewish elders of Lesko.
Unlike in many other towns of Poland-Lithuania, the Jewish citizens of Lesko were subject to the same laws as all other citizens and were allowed to do business without special restrictions, on a par with the Christian townsfolk. By the midth century, they already had their own cemetery and probably a synagogue, whose presence is mentioned in early 17th-century sources, and soon they also had a bath and a hospital poorhouse.
They also owned houses. The Jews had two synagogues at the time, as well as a beth midrash, a bath, a hospital, and a cemetery. The wars and invasions of the midth century spared the town. But the Swedes set fire to the town in , causing many people to lose their homes and move away. Many of those who remained died during an epidemic the following year including Jews.
In subsequent decades, the number of inhabitants increased again — in , tax was reported to have been collected from 1, Jews in the entire kahal, including in Lesko. At that time, the kahal of Lesko was the largest of the Jewish communities in the nearby towns and boroughs, and the visible sign of its importance was its stone synagogue, established at a time when most buildings of this kind were made of wood.
The first synagogue in Lesko was wooden; it was probably built in the second half of the 16th century and is mentioned in documents in as a Jewish school. The stone synagogue was built here most likely in the second half of the 17th century.
It appeared in the documents in the first half of the 18th century and has survived to this day. Built on a rectangular plan, with a turret in the corner of the front elevation, it was rebuilt several times — for example, after the fire. During World War II, the Germans devastated the interior of the synagogue and used the building as a warehouse.
After the war, the derelict building gradually became dilapidated until it was rebuilt in the s and s. Since , on the initiative of the then director of the Bieszczady Cultural Centre, Andrzej Potocki, it has housed an art gallery. The building is owned by the town of Lesko.
In its vestibule, there is an exhibition of photographs about Jewish life. The art gallery is open from May till October, tel. During World War I, the Jewish community, whose members owned most stores and craft workshops, suffered severely as passing soldiers looted the town. Do you like this map? Link to it or recommend it!
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