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Poznański Szybki Tramwaj
Poznański/ Poznanski (, feminine: Poznańska/ Poznanska, plural: Poznańscy, also distorted like Poznansky, Posnanski, Posnansky) is a surname of Polish language origin. Poznański surname is derived from the city Poznań. People * Alexander Poznansky (born 1950), Russian-American scholar of the life and works of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky * Alicja Poznańska (1930–1990), Polish-Canadian writer * Alfred 'Savoir' Poznański (1883–1934), French comedy playwright of Polish Jewish origin * Arthur Posnansky (1873–1946), engineer, explorer, archaeologist * Christina Poznanska Perks (born 1935), Polish-Canadian architect * Daphna Poznanski-Benhamou (1950), French politician * Gitel (Gertrude) Poznanski Steed (1914–1977), American cultural anthropologist * Grzegorz Marek Poznański (born 1971), Polish diplomat and ambassador * Gustavus Poznanski (1804–1879), cantor and religious leader, a pioneer of Reform Judaism * Hanna Poznańska Segal (1918–2011), British psychoa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poznań
Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's Fair (''Jarmark Świętojański''), traditional Saint Martin's croissants and a local dialect. Among its most important heritage sites are the Renaissance Old Town, Town Hall and Gothic Cathedral. Poznań is the fifth-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. As of 2021, the city's population is 529,410, while the Poznań metropolitan area (''Metropolia Poznań'') comprising Poznań County and several other communities is inhabited by over 1.1 million people. It is one of four historical capitals of medieval Poland and the ancient capital of the Greater Poland region, currently the administrative capital of the province called Greater Poland Voivodeship. Poznań is a center of trade, sports, education, technology and touri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilly Ogatina Poznanski
Lilly Ogatina Valahoe Poznanski (14 April 1942 – 14 June 1989) was a politician and educator from the Solomon Islands. She was the first woman to be elected to public office in the country. Poznanski was also the first Solomon Islands woman to be awarded an MBE and the Solomon Islands Independence Medal. Early life and education Poznanski was born in Kia, Santa Isabel Island in 1942. Her father was George Rubaha, an Anglican preacher, and her mother's name was Lusuai. Poznanski was one of the first Solomon Islands women to be sent to study abroad by the government, and spent seven years studying in New Zealand. Career On her return she taught at St. Hilda's School at Bungana. Poznanski was elected to the Central Solomons seat in the Legislative Council on 7 April 1965, defeating four other candidates and becoming the first female elected representative in Solomon Islands. Poznanski stood unsuccessfully for the Honiara seat in the Legislative Council in 1967 Events ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izrael Poznański Palace
The Izrael Poznański Palace ( pl, Pałac Izraela Poznańskiego) is a 19th-century palace in Łódź, Poland. Initially the site of a tenement building, the property was transformed into a Neo-Renaissance and Neo-baroque style residence during the years 1888 to 1903. History The history of the palace goes back to the 1860s. It was during this time that Kalman Poznański, a Polish-Jewish trader from Kowal in the Kuyavia region, arrived and began to live in Łódź. Kalman started a cotton industry, but it was not successful. However, when the business was taken over by his son, Izrael (1833–1900), there was a phenomenal rise in the price of cotton around the world. Izrael made a fortune from cotton and spent a large part of his earnings on the palace, which eventually took on his name. When Izrael Poznański acquired the site of the palace, there was a modest two-story building standing already. He renovated and expanded the building into a large residence. Taking his inspirati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska
Zofia Emilia Daszyńska-Golińska or Zofia Golińska, née Zofia Poznańska (6 August 1866 – 11 February 1934) was a Polish socialist politician, suffragist and professor. She was an early female senator in Poland. Life Daszyńska-Golińska was born in Warsaw in 1866. Her father and her mother came from educated families. She became interested in social issues and science and after studying at the Warsaw government school she went to Zurich. In Switzerland she studied philosophy, history, politics, and economics.Sophia Daszyńska-Golińska (1866-1934) retrieved April 2014 She married the political activist Felix Daszyński in Switzerland, but the marriage ended when her husband died after two years of tuberculosis. Her brother-in-law, |
Zofia Poznańska
Zofia Poznańska, also known as Zosia, Zosha, or Sophia (8 June 190629 September 1942) was a Polish antifascist and resistance fighter of the Soviet-affiliated espionage group that the German Abwehr intelligence service later called the " Red Orchestra". Life Zofia Poznańska was born in Łódź, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, into the prosperous Jewish family of Mosze Poznański and Hana Poznańska, née Basz. She later grew up in Kalisz, after Poland regained its independence in 1918. As a youth she was a member of the left-wing Hashomer Hatzair Socialist-Zionist secular Jewish youth movement. In 1925, when she was 19, Poznańska emigrated to Palestine to live and work at the Mishmar HaEmek kibbutz, laying gravel to create roads. After becoming disillusioned with the kibbutz and struggling to reconcile her Socialist-Zionist politics with the displacement of Arab farmers, whose land was being purchased, Poznańska moved to Tel Aviv. There she met Leopold Trepper and joined h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Poznanski
Ursula Poznanski (born October 30, 1968) is an Austrian writer. She won the ''Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis'' (German Children's Literature Award), Jugendjury (Youth Jury) prize in 2011 for her thriller novel ''Erebos'', which has been translated into 22 languages. Life and work Ursula Poznanski was born in Vienna and grew up in Perchtoldsdorf and, after completing high school, took courses in Japanese studies, journalism, law and theater studies at the University of Vienna, but did not complete a degree. In 1996 she began working as an editor in a medical publishing house. In 2000, after the birth of her son, she took part in a scriptwriting competition run by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation; her script for a romantic comedy did not win. In 2001, her first manuscript ''Buchstabendschungel'' was accepted by the Austrian publishing house Dachs and was published in 2003. In the following years she released more children's books and worked in parallel on her first young adu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Abraham Poznański
Samuel Abraham Poznański or Shemuel Avraham Poznanski ( he, שמואל אברהם פוזננסקי, Lubraniec, 3 September 1864–1921) was a Polish-Jewish scholar, known for his studies of Karaism and the Hebrew calendar. Arabist, Hebrew bibliographer, and authority on modern Karaism; rabbi and preacher at the Great Synagogue in Warsaw. He graduated from a gymnasium of Warsaw and studied at Warsaw University and the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin. At that time he formed an intimate friendship with his teacher Moritz Steinschneider, for whose eightieth birthday in 1896 he edited the Festschrift. He was appointed a member of the Warsaw council of rabbis by a committee of the Great Synagogue on Tłomackie Street, Warsaw just before his death where he preached. Orthodox Jews opposed his appointment and even resorted to street demonstrations.R. Zebrowski"Modernization or an attempt to divide the community? Battle for the appointment of a progressive r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renée Poznanski
Renée Poznanski (born 26 April 1949 in Paris) is a French-born Israeli historian, specialist in the Holocaust, and the Jewish Resistance in France during the Second World War, who teaches at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beersheba Beersheba or Beer Sheva, officially Be'er-Sheva ( he, בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, ''Bəʾēr Ševaʿ'', ; ar, بئر السبع, Biʾr as-Sabʿ, Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. ..., in Israel. Works * Renée Poznanski, Denis Peschanski, ''Drancy en France: de la Cité de la Muette au 'camp des Juifs, Paris, Fayard, 2015. * Renée Poznanski (ed.), Jacques Biélinky, ''Journal 1940-1942. Un journaliste juif à Paris sous l’Occupation'', Paris, Éditions du CNRS and Cerf, sept. 2011, (First edition 1992). * Renée Poznanski, ''Propagandes et persécutions, La Résistance et le 'problème juif, Paris, Fayard, 2008. * Renée Poznanski, ''Les Juifs en France, pendant la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duchy Of Greater Poland
The Duchy of Greater Poland was a district principality in Greater Poland that was a fiefdom of the Kingdom of Poland. It was formed in 1138 from the territories of the Kingdom of Poland, following its fragmentation started by the testament of Bolesław III Wrymouth. In 1177, the state broke had separated into the duchies of Poznań, Gniezno and Kalisz, and united again in 1279, lasting in that form until 1320, when it was incorporated back into the Kingdom of Poland. Its capital was Poznań. History Upon the death of Polish Piast duke Bolesław III Wrymouth in 1138, his country was divided by his will into 4-5 hereditary provinces distributed among his sons. The late duke had also established the Seniorate Province of Kraków for the eldest Władysław II, designated high duke of whole Poland. Mieszko the Old As one of these provinces, Greater Poland was given to Mieszko III the Old, the third son of late Duke Bolesław. Duke Mieszko III the Old at first ruled over the wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odon Poznański
Odon may refer to: ;People * Odon Bacqué, American politician and non-fiction writer * Odon of Greater Poland, duke of Greater Poland * Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller * Jorge Odón, Argentine mechanic and inventor ;Places * Odon (Lydia), a town of ancient Lydia, now in Turkey * Odon (river), a river in France * Odon, Indiana, United States ;Other * ODON, Russian national guard troops division *The battle honour given to Commonwealth units for an action during Operation Epsom (or the First Battle of the Odon) and the Second Battle of the Odon, both of which took place on the Odon River *The Odón Device, invented by Jorge Odón, which is used to assist in difficult child birth. * "-odon", a suffix used in taxonomy See also *Odo (other) *Ödön Ödön is a male given name of Hungarian origin, since the 19th century Ödön became variant of Edmund. It may refer to: * Ödön Bárdi (1877–1958), actor * Ödön Batthyány-Strattmann (1826–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Poznansky
Neil Poznansky (born July 25, 1972) is a retired Canadian thoroughbred racing jockey who in 1996 was the National Champion Apprentice Jockey in the United States as well as the National Champion Apprentice Jockey in Canada. The Eclipse Award was established in 1971 and the Sovereign Award in 1975. Through 2019 only four others have accomplished that feat. Mickey Walls did it first in 1991 with the second being Emma-Jayne Wilson in 2005 who is still the only female jockey to accomplish the feat. Omar Moreno ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ( ar, عمر بن الخطاب, also spelled Omar, ) was the second Rashidun caliph, ruling from August 634 until his assassination in 644. He succeeded Abu Bakr () as the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate o ... did it in 2010 and Kazushi Kimura in 2019. Poznansky successfully followed up his championship year until 2001, when his winners and earnings dropped significantly. Injuries hampered things further and in 2008, he retired from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark J
Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finnish markka ( sv, finsk mark, links=no), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Polish mark ( pl, marka polska, links=no), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issued on 15 November 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany * Lodz Ghetto mark, a special currency for Lodz Ghetto. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
