The project of the Jewish space in Lodz between two world wars

The project promotes the examination of the Jewish urban space in Lodz, Poland, between the two world wars.

Unlike Warsaw, which suffered great destruction in World War II, archival materials dealing with the lives of the Jewish residents of the industrial city of Lodz remained almost intact. The material was scanned on the website of the National Archives in the Lodz branch and in other archives and libraries. The material contains a whole world, and within it spatial information; Address and phone book of residents and businesses in Lodz in 1939, lists of tax payers for the Jewish community between 1939-1917 and the list of voters for the leadership of the Jewish community in 1924.

The use of digital tools enables the transfer of the lists to tables for statistical research and, above all, the mapping of the addresses of the Jewish residents of Lodz during the interwar period, and in fact, the revitalization of the Jewish space in Lodz during the interwar period.

The project is coordinated by architect Ruth Kaplan with the support of Dr. Sinai Rossink and Dror Elovitz.

Our Team

Ruth Kaplan - Head Of The Project

Ruth Kaplan is a doctoral student in the Department of Israeli History at the University of Haifa, under the guidance of Prof. Marcus Zilber Ruth is an architect, graduated with a master's degree in urban design at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and a graduate of the Azrieli Fellows program. Her research deals with Jewish urban space in Lodz, Poland in the 19th and 20th centuries while dealing with urban geography and the experience of the space, Jewish urbanism, and the place of the Jews in the Eastern European industrial city.