The house of learning was founded by Yisroel (Lipkin) Salanter. The new building was initiated by Rabbi Isaac Rülf, who collected numerous donations. The inauguration took place on September 25, 1875, with great public attention. The opening speech was given by the eminent Taimudist Leibush ben Jechiel Michael Weiser, called Malbim. The Teaching House also called Litvak synagogue was the center of the Jews coming from Lithuania.

The merchants Arthur and Siegfried Lewinsohn initially (1904) operated a shop for manufactures and fashion goods in Franzstra;e 3/4. Soon, the manufactures and fashion goods business became a shoe shop and shoe mail order house. From entries in Dessau address books from the time, it can be seen that the shop was located at Franzstra&szlig 3/4 in the years 1904-1907. In 1908, the shop moved to Zerbster Stra&szlig 22. From 1909, the shop was located at Askanische Stra&szlig 109, where it can be traced until 1919 with the last owner Siegfried Lewinsohn.

Rabbi Shmuel Sperber, born in 1905 in Brasov (Kronstadt) in Siebenbürgen in Rumänien. His father David Sperber was a rabbi in Brasov and Av Beit Din (chairman of a Beth Din rabbinical court. In his youth, Shmuel Sperber studied in the yeshivas of Oyber-Visheve under the wings of Rabbi Eliezer David Grünwald and Rabbi Mendel Hager. After his ordination (semichah) as a rabbi and his marriage, he lived in the Romanian city of Iasi, where on June 29, 1941, the Isai Death Train with 13,000 victims marked the conclusion of the largest pogrom against the Jewish population in Romania.

In 1913, the Robert Ball business is taken over by Hugo and Johanna Grünthal übern. Management Johanna Grünthal - authorized signatory Hugo Grünthal until 1914, then Julius Nathanson until 1935. Hugo Grünthal initiated an edition program of World War medals in Berlin, in which the medalist and sculptor Artur Imanuel Loewental was also involved.

Tombstones at the Jüd cemetery at ul. Bracka and Zmienna

Industrial and residential complex Izrael Kalmanowicz Poznański

Izrael Poznański (1833-1900) was a philanthropist, textile magnate and the most successful Jüd industrialist in Lodz.