A proposal has been put forward here that the Warsaw Jewish Community should take the initiative in arranging for a big celebration by the whole of Polish Jewry of the thousandth anniversary of the erection of the synagogue at Wronke, on the river Warthe, in Posen.
According to tradition, the synagogue was built by Portuguese Jews in the Jewish year 4693 (933 of the civil year). This date is inscribed on one of the portals of the synagogue, and there is also a black marble slab inside the synagogue recording in gilt lettering in Hebrew and German that the
synagogue was built in the Jewish year 4693. Before the First Partition of Poland, the Jewish Community of Wronke consisted of 483 due-paying members. At the end of the eighteenth century the number was 382, in 1846, it was 813, in 1895, 569, in 1921, 187, and at present there are only 15 Jewish families left in Wronke, only six of them paying community dues. The community is, therefore, unable itself to celebrate the thousandth anniversary of its synagogue, but it is being urged that the existence of the synagogue is evidence that there were Jews living on Polish soil before the creation of the Polish State, and that therefore the celebration is one for all Polish Jewry.
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