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Tarłów
Tarłów is a village (a town in 1550–1870) in Opatów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Tarłów. It lies approximately north-east of Opatów and east of the regional capital Kielce. It is approximately north of the town of Ozarow. The village belongs to historic province of Lesser Poland. The history of Tarłów dates back to 1550, when a local nobleman, Andrzej Tarło, founded the town named after himself, which replaced the already existing village of Czekarzewice. Tarłów received its charter in 1550 from King Zygmunt August, in Piotrków Trybunalski. The town's inhabitants, thanks to the King's order, were exempt from paying taxes for 20 years. In 1614 Tarłów got its first, wooden church, founded by Mikołaj Oleśnicki. In 1636 a hospital was opened, and in 1647, the wooden church was replaced with a brick church of Holy Trinity, which still stands. During the Deluge, Swe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gmina Tarłów
__NOTOC__ Gmina Tarłów is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Opatów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Tarłów, which lies approximately north-east of Opatów and east of the regional capital Kielce. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 5,753. Villages Gmina Tarłów contains the villages and settlements of Bronisławów, Brzozowa, Cegielnia, Ciszyca Dolna, Ciszyca Górna, Ciszyca Przewozowa, Ciszyca-Kolonia, Czekarzewice Drugie, Czekarzewice Pierwsze, Dąbrówka, Dorotka, Duranów, Hermanów, Jadwigów, Janów, Julianów, Kolonia Dąbrówka, Kozłówek, Leopoldów, Leśne Chałupy, Łubowa, Maksymów, Mieczysławów, Ostrów, Potoczek, Słupia Nadbrzeżna, Słupia Nadbrzeżna-Kolonia, Sulejów, Tadeuszów, Tarłów, Teofilów, Tomaszów, Wesołówka, Wólka Lipowa, Wólka Tarłowska and Zemborzyn Kościelny. Neighbouring gminas Gmina Tarłów ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opatów County
__NOTOC__ Opatów County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, south-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Opatów, which lies east of the regional capital Kielce. The only other town in the county is Ożarów, lying north-east of Opatów. The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 53,942, out of which the population of Opatów is 6,466, that of Ożarów is 4,569, and the rural population is 42,907. Neighbouring counties Opatów County is bordered by Ostrowiec County and Lipsko County to the north, Opole Lubelskie County to the north-east, Kraśnik County and Sandomierz County to the east, Staszów County to the south-west, and Kielce County to the west. Administrative division The county is subdivided into eight gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabbi Yehudah Yudel Rosenberg
Yehudah Yudel Rosenberg (, ; 24 December 1860 – 23 October 1935) was a rabbi, author, and Jewish communal leader in Poland and Canada. He is best known for his Hebrew translation of the ''Zohar'', and for popularizing the tale of the Golem, Golem of Prague. Biography Rosenberg was born Judka Rozenberg on 24 December 1860 in Gębarzów, Poland (near Radom), the son of Maria Gitla () and Izrael Icek Rozenberg. He grew up in the nearby town of Skaryszew, Poland. As a young boy, he was known as "the Illui of Skorishev". At age 17, he married Chaya Chava, the daughter of Shlomo Elimelech of Tarłów, Tarlow, granddaughter of the Otrovtzer Rav, Rabbi Liebish Zucker. After receiving his Semikhah, rabbinic designation from such great rabbinical authorities of the time as the Meir Yechiel Halevi Halstock, Ostrovtzer Rebbe, he served as rabbi in Tarlow (and thus became known in Poland as Rebbe Yudel Tarler), Lublin, Warsaw, and Lodz. In 1913, Rosenberg immigrated to Canada, where he beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congress Poland
Congress Poland or Congress Kingdom of Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. It was established when the French ceded a part of Polish territory to the Russian Empire following France's defeat in the Napoleonic Wars. In 1915, during World War I, it was replaced by the German-controlled nominal Regency Kingdom until Poland regained independence in 1918. Following the partitions of Poland at the end of the 18th century, Poland ceased to exist as an independent nation for 123 years. The territory, with its native population, was split among the Habsburg monarchy, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Russian Empire. After 1804, an equivalent to Congress Poland within the Austrian Empire was the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, also commonly referred to as " Austrian Poland". The area incorporated into Prussia initially also held autonomy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pene Yehoshua (other)
Pene Yehoshua may refer to the following works of Rabbinic literature: *Commentary and novellae on the Talmud, by Jacob Joshua Falk, 1680–1756 *Responsa ''Responsa'' (plural of Latin , 'answer') comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them. In the modern era, the term is used to describe decisions and rulings made by scholars i ... (''She'elot u-Teshuvot Pene Yehoshua''), by Rabbi Joshua Höschel ben Joseph, 1715 *Homilies in the order of the parashas, by Rabbi Joshua Falk, 1742 {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Joshua Falk
Jacob Joshua Falk (, also Yaakov Yehoshua ben Tzvi Hirsch, or Yaakov Yehoshua Falk — see Joshua Falk#Note on the name "Joshua Falk", Note on the name "Joshua Falk") 1680 – January 16, 1756) was a Polish People's Republic, Polish and German language, German rabbi and Talmudist, known as the Pnei Yehoshua. Biography Early life Falk was born in Kraków in 1680. On his mother's side he was a grandson of Rabbi Joshua Höschel ben Joseph, Yehoshua Heschel b. Yosef of Cracow, the author of Maginne Shelomoh. While a youth he became examiner of the Hebrew teachers of Lemberg. In 1702 his first wife, Leah Landau(daughter of Solomon Segal Landau), his child, Guitel, and his mother were killed through an explosion of gunpowder that wrecked the house in which they lived. Falk himself narrowly escaped death, and was trapped in the debris of the explosion for hours. He vowed that if he got out alive, he would write a Sefer_(Hebrew), Sefer. He was miraculously saved, and thereafter wrote the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Tempest
file:Akcja_burza_1944.png, 210px, right Operation Tempest or Operation Burza (, sometimes referred to in English as "Operation Storm") was a series of uprisings conducted during World War II against occupying German forces by the Polish Home Army (''Armia Krajowa'', abbreviated ''AK''), the dominant force in the Polish resistance movement in World War II, Polish resistance. Operation Tempest's objective was to seize control of German-occupied cities and areas while the Germans were preparing their defenses against the advancing Soviet Red Army. The Polish Underground State hoped to take power before the Soviets arrived. A goal of the Polish government-in-exile in London was to restore Poland's 1939 borders with the USSR, rejecting the Curzon Line border. According to Jan Ciechanowski (diplomat), Jan Ciechanowski,"The [exiled] Polish Cabinet believed that by refusing to accept the Curzon Line they were defending their country's right to exist as a national entity. They were deter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
