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Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw

Index Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw

The Warsaw Jewish Cemetery is one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe and in the world. [1]

68 relations: Adam Czerniaków, Aleksander Lesser, Alexander Flamberg, Ami (magazine), Art Deco, Bródno, Bródno Jewish Cemetery, Calvinism, Chaim Soloveitchik, Chevra kadisha, Christian, Dow Ber Meisels, Edward Flatau, Egyptian Revival architecture, Esperanto, Ester Rachel Kamińska, Europe, Funeral home, Hayyim Selig Slonimski, Headstone, Hectare, History of Poland (1939–1945), History of the Jews in Poland, I. L. Peretz, Ida Kamińska, Izaak Kramsztyk, Janusz Korczak, Józef Różański, Józef Sandel, Jewish cemetery, Julian Stryjkowski, Kalisz, L. L. Zamenhof, Lubomirski Ramparts, Lucjan Wolanowski, Maksymilian Fajans, Marek Edelman, Massacre, Meir Balaban, Michał Klepfisz, Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, Neoclassicism, Nissenbaum, November Uprising, Orthodox Judaism, Poland, Powązki Cemetery, Qahal, Reform Judaism, Russian Empire, ..., Russian Ground Forces, S. Ansky, Samuel Abraham Poznański, Samuel Goldflam, Samuel Orgelbrand, Siemiatycze, Synagogue, Szymon Askenazy, Szymon Datner, Szymon Winawer, Uri Nissan Gnessin, Vistula, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Warsaw Uprising, Wola, World War II. Expand index (18 more) »

Adam Czerniaków

Adam Czerniaków (30 November 1880 – 23 July 1942) was a Polish-Jewish engineer and senator; head of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Council (Judenrat) during World War II.

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Aleksander Lesser

Aleksander Lesser (13 May 1814 – 13 March 1884) was a Polish painter, illustrator, sketch artist, art critic, and amateur researcher of antiquities who was of Jewish descent.

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Alexander Flamberg

Alexander Flamberg (1880, Warsaw – 24 January 1926, Warsaw) was a Polish chess master.

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Ami (magazine)

Ami (עמי, "My people") is an international news magazine that caters to the Jewish community.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.

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Bródno

Bródno is a neighborhood in the Warsaw borough of Targówek, located on the eastern side of the Vistula river.

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Bródno Jewish Cemetery

Bródno Jewish Cemetery (also known as the Jewish Cemetery in Praga) is one of several Jewish cemeteries of Warsaw in Poland.

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Calvinism

Calvinism (also called the Reformed tradition, Reformed Christianity, Reformed Protestantism, or the Reformed faith) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians.

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Chaim Soloveitchik

Chaim (Halevi) Soloveitchik (Yiddish: חיים סאָלאָווייטשיק, Chaim Sołowiejczyk), also known as Reb Chaim Brisker (1853 – 30 July 1918), was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar credited as the founder of the popular Brisker approach to Talmudic study within Judaism.

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Chevra kadisha

A chevra kadisha (Hevra kadishah) (Aramaic: חֶבְרָה קַדִישָא, Ḥebh'ra Qaddisha "holy society") is an organization of Jewish men and women who see to it that the bodies of deceased Jews are prepared for burial according to Jewish tradition and are protected from desecration, willful or not, until burial.

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Christian

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Dow Ber Meisels

Dow (Dov, Dob) Ber (Beer, Berisz, Berush) Meisels (1798 – March 17, 1870) was a Chief Rabbi of Kraków (Cracow) from 1832 and later, Chief Rabbi of Warsaw (from 1856).

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Edward Flatau

Edward Flatau (27 December 1868, Płock – 7 June 1932, Warsaw) was a Polish-Jewish neurologist and psychiatrist.

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Egyptian Revival architecture

Egyptian revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt.

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Esperanto

Esperanto (or; Esperanto) is a constructed international auxiliary language.

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Ester Rachel Kamińska

Ester Rachel Kamińska (אסתר רחל קאַמינסקאַ) née Halpern (Porozow, 10 March 1870 - Warsaw, 25 December 1925) was a Polish Jewish actress, known as the mother of Yiddish theatre.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Funeral home

A funeral home, funeral parlor or mortuary, is a business that provides interment and funeral services for the dead and their families.

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Hayyim Selig Slonimski

Hayyim Selig Slonimski (חיים זעליג סלונימסקי, also known by his acronym CHaZaS) (March 31, 1810 – May 15, 1904) was a Hebrew publisher, astronomer, inventor, and science author.

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Headstone

A headstone, tombstone, or gravestone is a stele or marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100 meter sides, or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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History of Poland (1939–1945)

The history of Poland from 1939 to 1945 encompasses primarily the period from the Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany to the end of World War II.

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History of the Jews in Poland

The history of the Jews in Poland dates back over 1,000 years.

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I. L. Peretz

Isaac Leib Peretz (Icchok Lejbusz Perec, יצחק־לייבוש פרץ) (May 18, 1852 – 3 April 1915), also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz, best known as I. L. Peretz, was a Yiddish language author and playwright from Poland.

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Ida Kamińska

Ida Kamińska (September 18, 1899 – May 21, 1980) was a Polish-Jewish actress and director.

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Izaak Kramsztyk

Izaak Kramsztyk (1814–1899) was a reformed rabbi, preacher, lawyer and writer.

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Janusz Korczak

Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish-Jewish educator, children's author, and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old Doctor").

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Józef Różański

Józef Różański (b. Josek Goldberg; The Doomed Soldiers, 2010. Warsaw, 13 July 1907 – 21 August 1981, Warsaw) was a Officer in the Soviet NKVD Secret Police and later, a Colonel in the Ministry of Public Security and Intelligence of Poland.

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Józef Sandel

Józef Sandel (Yiddish: יוסף סאנדעל; German: Josef Sandel; 29 September 1894, Kolomyia – 1 December 1962, Warsaw)Elis, Binyamin (1965).

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Jewish cemetery

A Jewish cemetery (בית עלמין beit almin or beit kvarot) is a cemetery where members of the Jewish faith are buried in keeping with Jewish tradition.

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Julian Stryjkowski

Julian Stryjkowski, born Pesach Stark (April 27, 1905 – August 8, 1996) was a Polish journalist and writer, notable for his social prose of radical leftist leanings.

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Kalisz

Kalisz (Old Greek: Καλισία, Latin: Calisia, Yiddish: קאַליש, Kalisch) is a city in central Poland with 101,625 inhabitants (December 2017), the capital city of the Kalisz Region.

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L. L. Zamenhof

Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof; –), credited as L. L. Zamenhof and sometimes as the pseudonymous Dr.

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Lubomirski Ramparts

Lubomirski Ramparts (Okopy Lubomirskiego) was a 12 kilometre-long earthwork surrounding the city of Warsaw in late 18th and 19th century.

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Lucjan Wolanowski

Lucjan Wilhelm Wolanowski (Lucjan Kon; February 26, 1920 in Warsaw, Poland – February 20, 2006 in Warsaw), pseudonyms: Wilk; Waldemar Mruczkowski; W. Lucjański; (L.W.); lu; Lu; (lw); WOL., Polish journalist, writer and traveller.

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Maksymilian Fajans

Maksymilian Fajans (May 5, 1827 in Sieradz – July 28, 1890 in Warsaw) was a Polish-Jewish artist, lithographer and photographer.

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Marek Edelman

Marek Edelman (מאַרעק עדעלמאַן, born either 1919 in Homel or 1922 in Warsaw – October 2, 2009 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Jewish-Polish political and social activist and cardiologist.

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Massacre

A massacre is a killing, typically of multiple victims, considered morally unacceptable, especially when perpetrated by a group of political actors against defenseless victims.

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Meir Balaban

Meir Balaban or Majer Samuel Bałaban (18 Adar 637, Lviv showing a death date of Dec 26, 1942/18 Tevet 702. – 26 December 1942, Tevet 702, Warsaw Ghetto, BAŁABAN, Meir, 26/12/1942) was one of the most outstanding historians of Polish and Galician Jews, and the founder of Polish Jewish historiography.

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Michał Klepfisz

Michał Klepfisz (Warsaw, 17 April 1913in Polish - – 20 April 1943, Warsaw)Rotem, Harshav 2001, p. 36.

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Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin

Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (1816 in Mir, Russia – August 10, 1893 in Warsaw, Poland), also known as Reb Hirsch Leib Berlin, and commonly known by the acronym Netziv, was an Orthodox rabbi, dean of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuania.

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Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism (from Greek νέος nèos, "new" and Latin classicus, "of the highest rank") is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity.

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Nissenbaum

Nissenbaum is a surname.

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November Uprising

The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire.

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Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is a collective term for the traditionalist branches of Judaism, which seek to maximally maintain the received Jewish beliefs and observances and which coalesced in opposition to the various challenges of modernity and secularization.

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Poland

Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.

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Powązki Cemetery

Powązki Cemetery (Cmentarz Powązkowski), also known as the Stare Powązki (Old Powązki) is a historic cemetery located in the Wola district, western part of Warsaw, Poland.

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Qahal

The Qahal (קהל) was a theocratic organizational structure in ancient Israelite society according to the Hebrew Bible.

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Reform Judaism

Reform Judaism (also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism) is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of the faith, the superiority of its ethical aspects to the ceremonial ones, and a belief in a continuous revelation not centered on the theophany at Mount Sinai.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.

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Russian Ground Forces

The Ground Forces of the Russian Federation (r) are the land forces of the Russian Armed Forces, formed from parts of the collapsing Soviet Army in 1992.

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S. Ansky

Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport (1863 – November 8, 1920), known by his pseudonym S. Ansky (or An-sky), was a Jewish author, playwright, researcher of Jewish folklore, polemicist, and cultural and political activist.

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Samuel Abraham Poznański

Samuel Abraham Poznański or Shemuel Avraham Poznanski (שמואל אברהם פוזננסקי, Lubraniec, 3 September 1864–1921) was a Polish-Jewish scholar, known for his studies of Karaism and the Hebrew calendar.

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Samuel Goldflam

Samuel Wulfowicz Goldflam (15 February 1852 – 26 August 1932) was a Polish-Jewish neurologist best known for his brilliant 1893 analysis of myasthenia gravis (Erb-Goldflam syndrome).

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Samuel Orgelbrand

Samuel Orgelbrand (1810–1868) was one of the most prominent Polish-Jewish printers, booksellers, and publishers of the 19th century.

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Siemiatycze

Siemiatycze (Сямятычы, Podlachian: Simjatyčy, Сім'ятичі Simiatychi) is a town in north-eastern Poland, with 15,209 inhabitants (2004).

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Synagogue

A synagogue, also spelled synagog (pronounced; from Greek συναγωγή,, 'assembly', בית כנסת, 'house of assembly' or, "house of prayer", Yiddish: שול shul, Ladino: אסנוגה or קהל), is a Jewish house of prayer.

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Szymon Askenazy

Szymon Askenazy (December 24, 1865, Zawichost – June 22, 1935, Warsaw) was a Jewish-Polish historian, educator, statesman and diplomat, founder of the Askenazy school.

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Szymon Datner

Szymon Datner (2 February 1902, Kraków – 8 December 1989, Warsaw) was a Polish historian of Jewish descent, best known for his studies of Nazi war crimes committed against the Jewish population of the Białystok area (Bezirk Bialystok) after the German attack, across Poland, upon the Soviet Union in June 1941.

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Szymon Winawer

Szymon Abramowicz Winawer (Warsaw, March 6, 1838 – Warsaw, November 29, 1919) was a leading chess player who won the German Chess Championship in 1883.

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Uri Nissan Gnessin

Uri Nissan Gnessin (1879–1913) was a Russian Jewish writer, generally considered a pioneer in modern Hebrew literature.

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Vistula

The Vistula (Wisła, Weichsel,, ווייסל), Висла) is the longest and largest river in Poland, at in length. The drainage basin area of the Vistula is, of which lies within Poland (54% of its land area). The remainder is in Belarus, Ukraine and Slovakia. The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in the south of Poland, above sea level in the Silesian Beskids (western part of Carpathian Mountains), where it begins with the White Little Vistula (Biała Wisełka) and the Black Little Vistula (Czarna Wisełka). It then continues to flow over the vast Polish plains, passing several large Polish cities along its way, including Kraków, Sandomierz, Warsaw, Płock, Włocławek, Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Świecie, Grudziądz, Tczew and Gdańsk. It empties into the Vistula Lagoon (Zalew Wiślany) or directly into the Gdańsk Bay of the Baltic Sea with a delta and several branches (Leniwka, Przekop, Śmiała Wisła, Martwa Wisła, Nogat and Szkarpawa).

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Warsaw

Warsaw (Warszawa; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland.

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Warsaw Ghetto

The Warsaw Ghetto (Warschauer Ghetto, officially Jüdischer Wohnbezirk in Warschau Jewish Residential District in Warsaw; getto warszawskie) was the largest of all the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (אױפֿשטאַנד אין װאַרשעװער געטאָ; powstanie w getcie warszawskim; Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto) was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka.

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Warsaw Uprising

The Warsaw Uprising (powstanie warszawskie; Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance, led by the Home Army (Armia Krajowa), to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.

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Wola

Wola is a district in western Warsaw, Poland, formerly the village of Wielka Wola, incorporated into Warsaw in 1916.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Cemetery,_Warsaw

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