Abstract
The circumstances of the building of the New Synagogue are described fully in Carol Krinsky’s article. Here it should be stressed that there was a single Jewish Communal Body (Gemeinde) in Poznań, which included both those who would now be described as Orthodox and more progressive and Reform Jews. The Neue Synagoge would today be seen as a modern Orthodox house of worship. Rabbi Wolf Feilchenfeld, whose address forms the core of the pamphlet describing the dedication, was born in Glogau, Silesia in 1827. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1849 with a prize-winning dissertation on