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Daniel Neufeld
Daniel Neufeld (1814 – 15 October 1874) was a Polish-born Jewish author, poet, and educator. Biography Daniel Neufeld was born to a Jewish family in Praszka, where he received a traditional '' cheder'' education. At the age of 13 he enrolled in a provincial grammar school run by the Piarist Fathers in Wieluń, but did not graduate, possibly because of his involvement in the November Uprising. Neufeld opened a Jewish boys' school in 1838, with a curriculum that included the exact sciences, foreign language, and principles of progressive Judaism. Neufeld moved to Chenstokhov in 1840, establishing there a private boarding school for Jewish boys. Neufeld settled in Warsaw in 1861, where worked as an editor of Samuel Orgelbrand's '' Encyklopedia powszechna'' (until 1868) and as a teacher in Jewish government schools. There he published a work on the Great Sanhedrin of 1806 under the title ''Wielki Sanhedryn Paryski w Roku 1806''. On 5 July 1861, Neufeld commenced the publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praszka
Praszka (german: Praschkau) is a town in Olesno County, Opole Voivodeship, Poland, with 7,655 inhabitants (2019). History The oldest known mention of the settlement dates back to 1260. It was granted town rights in 1392 by Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło and new privileges in 1542 and 1620. It was annexed by Prussia in the Second Partition of Poland in 1793. In 1807 regained by the Poles as part of the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, in 1815 it became part of Congress Poland, later forcibly integrated with Imperial Russia. During the January Uprising weapons for Polish insurgents were smuggled through the town and on April 11, 1863, a Polish unit commanded by Józef Oxiński fought the Battle of Praszka against the Russians nearby. As part of Russian reprisals after the uprising, Praszka was stripped of its town rights in 1870. During World War I the town was occupied by Germany. It became again part of Poland after the county regained its independence in 1918, and to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
