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Nevertheless, while the Jews of Poland enjoyed tranquility for the greater part of Casimir's reign, toward its close they were subjected to persecution on account of the Black Death. In 1348, the first blood libel accusation against Jews in Poland was recorded, and in 1367 the first pogrom took place in Poznań. [43]
1453 – Casimir IV of Poland ratifies again the General Charter of Jewish Liberties in Poland. 1500 – Some of the Jews expelled from Spain, Portugal and many German cities move to Poland. By the mid sixteenth century, some eighty percent of the world's Jews lives in Poland, [2] a figure that held steady for centuries. 1501 – King Alexander ...
The history of the Jews in Poland before the 18th century covers the period of Jewish-Polish history from its origins, roughly until the political and socio-economic circumstances leading to the dismemberment of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the second half of the 18th century by the neighbouring empires (see also: Partitions of Poland).
Before WWII and the Holocaust, Łódź boasted “one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe,” the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported. About 31% of the city’s inhabitants, or just over ...
At the start of the Second World War, Poland had the largest Jewish population in the world (over 3.3 million, some 10% of the general Polish population). [7] The vast majority were murdered under the Nazi " Final Solution " mass-extermination program in the Holocaust in Poland during the German occupation; only 369,000 (11%) of Poland's Jews ...
On 17 June 2009, the museum launched the Virtual Shtetl portal, which collects and provides access to essential information about Jewish life in Poland before and after the Holocaust in Poland. The portal now features more than 1,240 towns with maps, statistics, and image galleries based in large measure on material provided by local history ...
Located in the Poznań province west of Łódź, Kalisz was for centuries a border town between Poland and Germany.The oldest city in Poland, Kalisz also played a pivotal role in Polish Jewish history: in 1264, Bolesław the Pious, ruler of the western part of Poland (Wielkopolska), was the first to grant a charter to the local Jewish community, giving them settlement rights, legal protection ...
Following the establishment of the Second Polish Republic after World War I and during the interwar period, the number of Jews in the country grew rapidly. According to the Polish national census of 1921, there were 2,845,364 Jews living in the Second Polish Republic; by late 1938 that number had grown by over 16 percent, to approximately 3,310,000, mainly through migration from Ukraine and ...