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Gesher Galicia is a Jewish genealogical nonprofit organization, operating as a special interest group for those with Jewish roots from the former Austrian-ruled province of Galicia, part of modern-day western Ukraine and southeastern Poland.
Today, the territory of Galicia is split between Poland in the west and Ukraine in the east. At the turn of the Twentieth Century, Poles constituted 88.7% of the whole population of Western Galicia, Jews 7.6%, Ukrainians 3.2%, Germans 0.3%, and others 0.2%.
Brief history of Galician Jews. Personal.ceu.hu/Students. Shoshana Eden, painter. Paintings depicting a Galician shtetl in the 1930s. Buchach Jewish Cemetery fully documented at Jewish Galicia and Bukovina ORG; Gesher Galicia - An organization dedicated to the genealogy of Galician Jewry and preserving the heritage and culture of Galician Jews
Location of biblical Geshur (top right area, east of the Sea of Galilee) Geshur (Biblical Hebrew: גְּשׁוּר, romanized: Gəšūr) [1] was a territory in the ancient Levant mentioned in the early books of the Hebrew Bible and possibly in several other ancient sources, located in the region of the modern-day Golan Heights. [2]
Galicia, also known by its variant name Galizia [2] (/ ɡ ə ˈ l ɪ ʃ (i) ə / gə-LISH-(ee-)ə; [3] Polish: Galicja, IPA: [ɡaˈlit͡sja] ⓘ; Ukrainian: Галичина, romanized: Halychyna, IPA: [ɦɐlɪtʃɪˈnɑ]; Yiddish: גאַליציע, romanized: Galitsye; see below), is a historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, long part of ...
Stater coin, of Alexander the Great (336-323 BC) from Trepcza/ n. Sanok. The region has a turbulent history. In Roman times the region was populated by various tribes of Celto-Germanic admixture, including Celtic-based tribes – like the Galice or "Gaulics" and Bolihinii or "Volhynians" – the Lugians and Cotini of Celtic, Vandals and Goths of Germanic origins (the Przeworsk and Púchov ...
Historical map of Kievan Rus', 1220–1240 In 1205, Roman's alliance with the Poles broke down, [ 18 ] leading to a conflict with Leszek the White and Konrad of Masovia . [ citation needed ] Roman was subsequently killed by Polish forces in the Battle of Zawichost (1205), [ 18 ] [ 19 ] triggering a war of succession , while his dominion entered ...
A map showing the Kreise and Kreisdistrikte of Galicia and Lodomeria 1777–82. The Kreise (lit. ' circles '; sg. Kreis; Polish: cyrkuły, sg. cyrkuł; Ukrainian: округи okruhy, sg. округ okruh) of Galicia and Lodomeria go back in some form to the aftermath of the First Partition of Poland in 1772 which led to the Kingdom's creation, but did not take something resembling their final ...