#polish jewish

[abwwia]

Franceska Manheimer-Rosenberg (4 February 1917 – 23 October 1943), better known as Franceska Mann, was a Polish Jewish ballerina who, according to some accounts, killed a Nazi guard, while a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp and wounded at least one other.

She studied dance in the dance school of Irena Prusicka. Her friends at that time included Wiera Gran and Stefania Grodzieńska. In 1939 she was placed 4th during the international dance competition in Brussels among 125 other young ballet dancers. She was considered one of the most beautiful and promising dancers of her generation in Poland both in the classical and modern repertoire.

In the most popular but unverified version of the event, Mann is said to have performed a striptease for Nazis at the camp and, once down to naught but high heels took one of her shoes and stabbed in the face with the heel, causing him to drop his firearm. She then used it to shoot Schillinger and Emmerich. Schillinger died from his wounds several hours later while Emmerich was left with a permanent limp.

Her actions are said to have sparked an uprising among fellow female Jewish prisoners before she herself was killed. Via Wikipedia

#Franceska Manheimer-Rosenberg #franceska mann #jewish #polish jewish #art by women #herstory #sztuka kobiet

[jidysz]

Polin museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland

It's a great place, very worth seeing

#jidysz #jewish culture #jews in poland #yiddish culture #jewish history #jewish #jews #ashkenazi culture #ashkenazi jews #ashkenazi #synagogue #jeshiva #kabala #jewish amulet #jewish talisman #canopy #jewish wedding #polin #polin museum #warsaw #poland #polish jews #jewish museum

[yourdailyqueer]

Michał Waszyński (Mosze Waks) (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 29 September 1904 

DOD: 20 February 1965

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Nationality: Ukrainian / Polish

Occupation: Director, producer, veteran

Note 1: In the 1930s Waszyński became the most prolific film director in Poland, directing 37 of the 147 films made in Poland in that decade, or one out of four.

Note 2: During the war he was relocated to Persia (Iran), and later as a soldier of the 2nd Corps of the Polish Army to Egypt and Italy. As a member of the army film unit, he filmed the Battle of Monte Cassino,

#Michał Waszyński #Michal Waszynski #Mosze Waks #lgbt history #lgbtq #male #gay #1904 #rip #historical #jewish #ashkenazi jewish #ukrainian #polish #director #producer #veteran #popular #popular post

[huariqueje]

View from the artist's studio, between the Boulevard Montparnasse and Boulevard Raspail, Paris - Henri Hayden , 1931.

Polish Jewish , 1883 - 1970

oil on canvas , 38 x 64 cm.

#Henri Hayden #polish jewish artist #boulevard city view #Paris #Boulevard Raspail

[carousel-crows]

i would write more icemav, but it's finals week, so here are some headcanons:

ice gives the best hugs. slider basically taught him how to hug, and since slider is the resident teddy bear, ice is a master

mav definitely doesn't mind this after he accepts that he's touchstarved

chipper, hollywood, wolfman, and merlin specifically make sure that mav eats vegetables when ice and slider are away

speaking of food, ice's slavic background (specifically russian and polish) is often very helpful when showing pete his past. He sticks to kosher (he's jewish), and shows mav pierogi. 

Mav absolutely loves home cooked meals. He got taste of all sorts of cultures and religion while in the system, and there were a few recipes he took with him, but there isn't anyone to teach him to cook. 

ice and mav take bradley on outings all the time. the zoo, the park, carnivals and cinemas. Carole loves that they spend time with him, and she loves that it gives her time to still have friends and time to herself.

tom gives forehead, hand, and nose kisses. Pete gives cheek, shoulder, and chest kisses. 

they started out as angry hookups to "blow off steam", but they very quickly realized that they were a lot more complicated than that. it took them way too long to confess, but they grew softer and sweeter much sooner than their peers had expected

that's all i got tonight, folks, but i hope you enjoyed it. if you have any headcanons to share/expand on, feel free to send an ask or dm me!

#icemav #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #iceman x maverick #ron slider kerner #sam merlin wells #charles chipper piper #rick hollywood neven #leonard wolfman wolfe #carole bradshaw #baby bradley bradshaw #jewish tom kazansky #russian tom kazansky #polish tom kazansky #top gun 1986 #top gun #august speaks

[applesauce42069]

when i went to poland for the first time last year for a seminar everyone i knew really pushed this idea that i was returning to my homeland. I didn't like it because I knew they could never understand what I felt. In some ways, poland did feel like a homeland to me, mostly because of the rich Ashkenazi history there and the knowledge that my family lived there for centuries, all the way up until the 1968 ethnic cleansing. There was very little left there for me today, the Jewish civilization there was destroyed, but the ground felt special to me, because I knew that generations upon generations of my family walked on it.

It, in some ways, is my country but, it's not my homeland. I am not a Pole and no one in my family has ever been. We were Jews who lived in Poland, and then we were Polish Jews. Poland is special to me but is not where I come from and it is not where my people come from. Hell, it's the last, not the first place, in Europe where my family lived. It's not even where we got our European genes from.

But it is one of those things that you just can't expect people to get.

#jumblr #jewish identity #jewish diaspora #polish jew

[jareckiworld]

Jonasz Stern (1904-1988) — Shtetl Kałusz in 1942 [charcoal, fabric, oil, enamel, on wood, 1988]

#Jonasz Stern #jewish art #polish art #shtetl #shoah

[sunnysam-my]

#happy chanukah #polish government thing #you don't even want to get it #poland #polish government #destiel #government #destiel meme #government drama #euro politics #happy chaos #sejmflix #sejm #jewish

[secular-jew]

Polish people told Jews to go back to Israel. Then they killed the 2.25 million of the 2.5 million Jewish population who couldn't return (the British blocked all Jewish immigration) or were physically unable.

#israel #secular-jew #jewish #judaism #israeli #jerusalem #diaspora #secular jew #secularjew #islam #Poland #polish antisemitism #Poland ethnic cleansing #antisemtism #European antisemitism #European ethnic cleansing #indigenous

[torchflies]

Chapter 2 is up! ❤️ — edited 4/23/24

“He reaches out a hand in a sudden spark of loneliness, fumbling around in the sea of fabric and buttons that span their father’s broad chest — still wearing the black ribbon that Rabbi had torn for him — before he finally finds Tomek’s, his brother’s identical little fingers raised and fluttering about too.

They had both been reaching out, but still missed each other every time they tried to meet.

It’s almost prophetic in a way: how hard they stretched, bumped, and fumbled to find one another, only to miss again and again by trying so hard.

Sometimes, as they will learn with time, life teaches that you can try so hard, hold on so tight, that the very thing you’re trying so hard to keep — doesn’t stay.”

(The life and times of The Kazansky Twins).

I wrote a new thing! Iceman gets an identical twin brother, a little sister and a history that he has to reckon with.

#jewish tom iceman kazansky #jewish iceman kazansky #pete maverick mitchell #top gun #icemav #read the tags #Polish Tom Iceman Kazansky #historical events through the eyes of children #I don't own these images #86 flyboys #mike viper metcalf #ron slider kerner #nick goose bradshaw #carole bradshaw #top gun 1986 #top gun fanfic #top gun fandom #top gun rewrite #Kit writes stuff

[chanaleah]

my maternal great-great grandma was born in Warsaw in the late 19th/early 20th century. When she was a little girl, her family emigrated to the United States to escape violence and for better opportunities.

3 million polish Jews were killed in the shoah. I know for almost a fact that if my family had not left, I wouldn't be here writing this right now.

Even after the holocaust, Jews still faced violence in Poland. In 1946, (yes, that's only one year after the shoah) a pogrom in Kielce ended with 37 murdered Jews.

So no, don't tell Jews to go back to Poland.

#chana talks #jewish #jumblr #judaism #poland #polish jews #antisemitism

[radykalny-feminizm]

Right now I'm reading a book about female fighters in Warsaw ghetto uprising and it enrages me that we know so little about them. There's so little sources describing them. Why? Because they were always pictured merely as men's companions. As if only males were the real heroes, while the women were only there to help them by doing some less important things. And when there was a woman who was willing to fight and die and was so brave, then she was described as "man-like". It's ridiculous. But I'm glad that women in history are slowly getting their autonomy back.

#the book is called kwestia charakteru bojowniczki z getta warszawskiego in polish #idk if it's translated to english #women in history #jewish #jewish women #heroines #female fighters #female soldiers #herstory #warsaw ghetto #warsaw ghetto uprising #shoah #holocaust #ww2 #radfem #radical feminism #radfem safe #radblr #radfems do interact #feminism #radfems do touch #women's rights #women's liberation #jumblr #mine

[yourdailyqueer]

Sydor Rey (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: 6 September 1908 

DOD: 15 November 1979

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Nationality: Polish / American

Occupation: Writer, poet

Note: Could also be Ukrainian as was born there and studied in Lviv

#Sydor Rey #lgbt history #bisexuality #lgbt #lgbtq #male #bisexual #1908 #rip #historical #jewish #ashkenazi jewish #polish #ukrainian #writer #poet

[huariqueje]

Still life in a Garden - Henri Hayden , 1958.

Polish Jewish , 1883 - 1970

oil on canvas , 81 x 60cm , 31 7/8 x 23 5/8 in.

#Henri Hayden #polish jewish artist #still life #eegplants #green peppers

[jidysz]

Drawing by Klaudia Kiercz-Długołęcka 

Sztetł

Yiddish - שטעטל

English transcription - Shtetl

Meaning - a town

Sztibł

Yiddish - שטיבל‎

English transcription - Shtibl

Meaning - a house or a room used for communal Jewish prayer

Jesziwa

Yiddish - ישיבֿה

English transcription - Yeshiva

Meaning - a traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of the Talmud

Mykwa

Yiddish - מיקווה

English transcription - Mikvah

Meaning - a bath used for the purpose of ritual immersion to achieve ritual purity

Synagoga (this one is in Polish)

Yiddish - שול

English transcription - shul

Meaning - synagogue

Macewa

Yiddish - מצבֿה

English transcription - Matzevah

Meaning - a headstone or tombstone marking a Jewish grave

#jewish #jews #jewish culture #jewish history #yiddish #yiddish culture #yiddish language #learning yiddish #ashkenazi #ashkenazi jews #polish Jews #jews in poland #yiddish words #shtetl #shtibl #yeshiva #mikvah #shul #matzevah #jidysz #yidish #ייִדיש #Żydzi w Polsce #żydowska kultura #judaica #jeśli zapomnę o tobie Jerozolimo niech uschnie moja prawica #yiddish dictionary #jumblr

[applesauce42069]

Thus it will be with pride, mournful pride, that we shall count ourselves of that glorious rank which will outshine all others – the rank of the Polish Jew, we who by miracle or by chance have remained alive. With pride? Let us rather say: with contrition and gnawing shame. For it was bestowed upon us for the sake of your torment, your glory, Redeemers! …And so perhaps I should not say “we Polish Jews,” but “we ghosts, we shadows of our slaughtered brethren, the Polish Jews.”

Julian Tuwim - "My, Zydzi Polscy"

#jumblr #jewish #polish #polish jew #jewish and proud #poland