In 1930, in Lublin, at the initiative of Agudas Yisrael Shapiro, a very modern Talmudic academy - Wise Men Lublin School. The designer of the building was Agenor Smoluchowski, he gave his eclectic style. The university has six floors. In addition to classrooms there was also a library, a synagogue, rooms for students, housing the Rector. In 1939 the building was taken of the Jewish community. From 1945 to 2005 housed by the University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, and the Academy of Medicine. In 2006 the university officially opened the room to the work of adapting the building for Municipalities