Yehuda Leib Eiger (1816-1888), the founder of the Lublin Hasidic Eiger dynasty, also prayed in the house of prayer at 28 Szeroka Street. The synagogue of his son Abraham (1847-1914) and grandson Shlomo Eiger (1871-1940) was located a few tenements away at 40 Szeroka Street. Their childhood in the court of Hasidic rebbe Abraham Eiger was described by his granddaughter and great-granddaughter - Holocaust survivors Golde and Kaja Finkler ( Lives Lived and Lost: East European History Before, During, and After World War II as Experienced by an Anthropologist and Her Mother, Brighton, 2012). Yosef Cadok Rabinovich (1813-1900), a prominent Hasidic theologian known as Cadok ha-Kohen, who lived in nearby New Market Square, was also a friend of the Eigers.And at 44 Szeroka Street, where the bus station's passenger stands are today, stood the Parnas Synagogue, founded in the second half of the 18th century by Abraham Heilperin (1680-1762), superior of the yeshiva, chief rabbi of Lublin and penultimate Speaker of the Diet of the Four Lands.In 1581, King Stefan Batory issued a decree establishing the Waad Arba Aracot (Diet of Four Lands), a unique autonomous Jewish parliament, where representatives of the Jewish communities of Lesser Poland, Greater Poland, Ruthenia and Lithuania discussed and decided issues of importance to them. The Sejm used to meet in Lublin during the winter fairs.According to tradition, one of the places of its meetings was the house at 19 Szeroka Street, located at the foot of the castle.