Chajka (''Czajka'') (d. after 14 November 1781), mistress of the
Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...
king
Stanisław August Poniatowski. She was
a Pole of Jewish ancestry.
She was daughter of the Jewish merchant Abramek Lwowski (''Abramek of
Lwów'')
and lived in Żwaniec. In 1781, she was painted by Krzysztof Radzwiłłowski. Czajka had a daughter named Elia (Ella).
See also
*
Esterka
*
Paradisus Judaeorum
Sources
Mistresses of Stanisław August Poniatowski
18th-century Polish Jews
Jewish concubines
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