Polish Names Starting With B Bartos (Polish boy name)–“Son of furrows”; also means “son of Talmai” as a shorter form of the ancient Greek name“Bartholomaíos” or “Bartholomew” Basek (Polish boy name)–“Kingly” Basha (Polish, Yiddish, and Jewish girl name)–“Foreign woman”...
When I first started reading Russian revolutionary history (in the 1970’s when ‘Belarus’ wasn’t commonly used), I got terribly confused with the ‘White movement’/’White Russians’ counter-Bolsheviks. And my then-girlfriend — who was studying Russian Language — went for a term’s im...
With -ow, -ew ending are Russian names. With -us or -is ending are Lithuania names. There is a problem with Jewish surnames because until XVIII century, Jews in Poland had no surnames. They lived usually in small communities and named themselves for example as Abraham ibn Tobia (Abraham ...
(hiswholesalecondemnationof communists)results in thefounding of anew myth andanew mono-narrative.Intheauto-commentaries,Urbankowski mentions,amongothers,thecommunistprisoners’ruthlesshan-dlingof Polishofficers,the volunteerworktheyperformedfor theGermanarmyin1944andtheirrescueof asmallPolish-Jewishchild (as ...
The missing girl is Jewish. I need you to find her before the Nazis do. Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment ...
closes on February 2, known as Candlemas Day. On that day, people carry candles to church and have them blessed for use in their homes during storms, sickness and death. Mary became ritually clean and could again enter the Temple 40 days after giving birth according to Jewish law.[More ...
As a theologian, journalist, and the president of the Forum for Dialogue (on Polish–Jewish dialogue), she constitutes an example of a possible and important input as a new, spiritual, and also feminist voice in the written history of women in the Church from the beginning of the Early ...
In 1878 she had published Meir Ezofowicz (the name of the protagonist), a novel that presented a lurid picture of Jewish life in a small town in Belorussia and preached not so much tolerance as the assimilation of the Jewish community. The Russian authorities closed down her business in ...