Krakow Mezuzah by Mi Polin

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    Note: The Krakow Mezuzah is temporarily sold out.  More will be arriving end of June, early July.  Place your order now to be in the queue for shipping as soon as stock is here. 
     
    This mezuzah is part of a series from Mi Polin titled "Mezuzah from this house." Before World War II, Poland had 3.5 million Jewish inhabitants as well a few million mezuzot. Almost all of the Jews and their mezuzot perished during the war, with only traces and empty holes remaining today in the place of mezuzahs. "Mezuzah from this house" is a bronze cast of what is left behind and commemorates the Jewish lives of pre-war Poland. Each mezuzah has an engraved letter Shin and the address where the trace was found on the side. After sitting untouched for many years, these mezuzot can now fulfill their holy function again.
     
    The story behind this mezuzah:
    The building at 8 Mostowa Street was built between 1868 and 1873 as a tenement house most likely designed by Jacek Matusinski. From 1926 to 1934 only 4 Jewish residents lived in the building: Uebersfeld Estera, Gross Hallassa, Bloch Ruchla, and Zweig Salomea. According to a list of prayer houses in pre-war Krakow, there was one belonging to Chana and Abraham Lednitzer in the backyard of 8 Mostowa Street. It was built by the Lednitzer family in 1907. It was devastated during World War II and was no longer a prayer house. Today it is a workshop, but nobody is allowed to enter the building.
     
    To see how the Mi Polin team discovers mezuzah traces throughout Poland, watch this video clip.
     
    Kosher mezuzah scroll sold separately.
     
    Cast bronze
    6" long
     
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