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Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw, the Glossary

The Warsaw Jewish Cemetery is one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe and in the world.^[1]

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1806 establishments in Poland
Art Nouveau architecture in Poland
Art Nouveau cemeteries
Cemeteries established in the 1800s
Cemeteries in Warsaw
Jewish cemeteries in Poland
Orthodox Judaism in Poland
Reform Judaism in Poland
Wola

Adam Czerniaków

Adam Czerniaków (30 November 1880 – 23 July 1942) was a Polish engineer and senator who was head of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Council (Judenrat) during World War II.

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Aleksander Lesser

Aleksander Lesser (13 May 1814 – 13 March 1884) was a Polish painter, illustrator, sketch artist, art critic, and amateur researcher of antiquities.

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Alexander Flamberg

Alexander Flamberg (1880 – 24 January 1926) was a Polish chess master.

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Ami Magazine

Ami Magazine (עמי, "My people") is an international news magazine that caters to the Orthodox Jewish community.

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Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.

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Bródno

Bródno is a neighborhood in the Warsaw borough of Targówek, located on the eastern side of the Vistula river.

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Bródno Jewish Cemetery

Bródno Jewish Cemetery (also known as the Jewish Cemetery in Praga) is one of several Jewish cemeteries of Warsaw in Poland. Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw and Bródno Jewish Cemetery are cemeteries in Warsaw and Jewish cemeteries in Poland.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.

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Chaim Soloveitchik

Chaim (Halevi) Soloveitchik (Yiddish: חיים סאָלאָווייטשיק, Chaim Sołowiejczyk), also known as Chaim Brisker (1853 – 30 July 1918), was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar credited as the founder of the Brisker method of Talmudic study within Judaism.

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Chevra kadisha

The term chevra kadisha (חֶבְרָה קַדִּישָׁא) gained its modern sense of "burial society" in the nineteenth century.

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Christians

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Dow Ber Meisels

Dow (Dov, Dob) Ber (Beer, Berisz, Berush) Meisels (1798 – 17 March 1870) was a Chief Rabbi of Kraków (Cracow) from 1832 and later, Chief Rabbi of Warsaw (from 1856).

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Edward Flatau

Edward Flatau (27 December 1868 – 7 June 1932) was a Polish neurologist and psychiatrist.

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Egyptian Revival architecture

Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt.

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Ester Rachel Kamińska

Ester Rachel Kamińska (אסתּר־רחל קאַמינסקאַ); née Ester-Rokhl Halpern (Porozów, 10 March 1870 – Warsaw, 25 December 1925) was a Polish Jewish actress, known as the mother of Yiddish theatre.

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Funeral home

A funeral home, funeral parlor or mortuary, is a business that provides burial and funeral services for the dead and their families.

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Gravestone

A gravestone or tombstone is a marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave.

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Hayyim Selig Slonimski

Ḥayyim Selig ben Ya'akov Slonimski (March 31, 1810 – May 15, 1904), also known by his acronym ḤaZaS, was a Hebrew publisher, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, science writer, and rabbi.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), that is, 10,000 square meters (10,000 m2), and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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History of the Jews in Poland

The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years.

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I. L. Peretz

Isaac Leib Peretz (Icchok Lejbusz Perec, יצחק־לייבוש פרץ) (May 18, 1852 – April 3, 1915), also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz was a Polish Jewish writer and playwright writing in Yiddish.

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Ida Kamińska

Ida Kamińska (September 18, 1899 – May 21, 1980) was a Polish actress and director.

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Izaak Kramsztyk

Izaak Kramsztyk (1814–1889) was a Reform Jewish rabbi, preacher, lawyer and writer.

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Jacob Dinezon

Jacob Dinezon, also known as Yankev Dinezon (– 1919), was a Yiddish author and editor from Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire).

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Janusz Korczak

Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish Jewish pediatrician, educator, children's author and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old Doctor").

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Józef Różański

Józef Różański (born Josef Goldberg; 13 July 1907 – 21 August 1981) was an officer in the Soviet NKVD and later, a Colonel in the Polish Ministry of Public Security (UB), the communist secret police.

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Józef Sandel

Józef Sandel (יוסף סאנדעל; Josef Sandel; 29 September 1894, Kolomea – 1 December 1962, Warsaw)Elis, Binyamin (1965).

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Jewish cemeteries of Warsaw

Jewish cemeteries of Warsaw refers to a number of Jewish necropolises in the city. Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw and Jewish cemeteries of Warsaw are cemeteries in Warsaw, Holocaust locations in Poland and Jewish cemeteries in Poland.

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Jewish cemetery

A Jewish cemetery (בית עלמין beit almin or beit kvarot) is a cemetery where Jews are buried in keeping with Jewish tradition.

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Julian Stryjkowski

Julian Stryjkowski (born Pesach Stark; April 27, 1905 – August 8, 1996) was a Polish journalist and writer, known for his social prose and radical leftist leanings.

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Kalisz

Kalisz is a city in central Poland, and the second-largest city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, with 97,905 residents (December 2021). Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw and Kalisz are Holocaust locations in Poland.

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L. L. Zamenhof

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Lubomirski Ramparts

Lubomirski Ramparts (Okopy Lubomirskiego) was a 12 kilometre-long earthwork surrounding the city of Warsaw in late 18th and 19th century.

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Lucjan Wolanowski

Lucjan Wilhelm Wolanowski (Lucjan Kon; February 26, 1920 – February 20, 2006), pseudonyms: Wilk; Waldemar Mruczkowski; W. Lucjański; (L.W.); lu; Lu; (lw); WOL., was a Polish journalist, writer and traveller.

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Maksymilian Fajans

Maksymilian Fajans (May 5, 1827 in Sieradz – July 28, 1890 in Warsaw) was a Polish artist, lithographer and photographer.

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Marek Edelman

Marek Edelman (מאַרעק עדעלמאַן; 1919/1922 – October 2, 2009) was a Polish political and social activist and cardiologist.

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Meir Balaban

Meir Balaban or Majer Samuel Bałaban (18 Adar 637 – 26 December 1942, Tevet 702) was a historian of Polish and Galician Jews, and the founder of Polish Jewish historiography.

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Michał Klepfisz

Michał Klepfisz (Warsaw, 17 April 1913in Polish - – 20 April 1943, Warsaw)Rotem, Harshav 2001, p. 36.

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Monument to the Memory of Children - Victims of the Holocaust

The Monument to the Memory of Children - Victims of the Holocaust is a monument located in the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street in Warsaw, Poland, commemorating the children murdered in the Holocaust.

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Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin

Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (20 November 1816 in Mir, Russia – 10 August 1893 in Warsaw, Poland), also known as Reb Hirsch Leib Berlin, and commonly known by the acronym Netziv, was an Orthodox rabbi, rosh yeshiva (principal) of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuania.

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Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity.

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Nikolsburg (Hasidic dynasty)

Nikolsburg (Yiddish: ניקאלשפורג) is the name of a Hasidic dynasty descending from Shmelke of Nikolsburg, a disciple of Dov Ber of Mezeritch.

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Nissenbaum

Nissenbaum is a surname.

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November Uprising

The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire.

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Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)

The occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II (1939–1945) began with the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, and it was formally concluded with the defeat of Germany by the Allies in May 1945.

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Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist branches of contemporary Judaism.

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Powązki Cemetery

Powązki Cemetery (Cmentarz Powązkowski), also known as Stare Powązki (Old Powązki), is a historic necropolis located in Wola district, in the western part of Warsaw, Poland. Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw and Powązki Cemetery are cemeteries in Warsaw and Wola.

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Qahal

The qahal (קהל), sometimes spelled kahal, was a theocratic organizational structure in ancient Israelite society according to the Hebrew Bible, See columns.

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Reform Judaism

Reform Judaism, also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism, is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of Judaism, the superiority of its ethical aspects to its ceremonial ones, and belief in a continuous revelation which is closely intertwined with human reason and not limited to the Theophany at Mount Sinai.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Russian Ground Forces

The Russian Ground Forces, also known as the Russian Army in English, are the land forces of the Russian Armed Forces.

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S. An-sky

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Samuel Abraham Poznański

Samuel Abraham Poznański or Shemuel Avraham Poznanski (שמואל אברהם פוזננסקי, Lubraniec, 3 September 1864–1921) was a Polish-Jewish scholar, known for his studies of Karaism and the Hebrew calendar.

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Samuel Goldflam

Samuel Wulfowicz Goldflam (15 February 1852 – 26 August 1932) was a Polish-Jewish neurologist best known for his brilliant 1893 analysis of myasthenia gravis (Erb-Goldflam syndrome).

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Samuel Orgelbrand

Samuel Orgelbrand (1810 – 16 November 1868) was one of the most prominent Polish-Jewish printers, booksellers, and publishers of the 19th century.

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Siemiatycze

Siemiatycze (Сямятычы Siamiatyčy) is a town in eastern Poland, with 14,391 inhabitants (2019). Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw and Siemiatycze are Holocaust locations in Poland.

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Synagogue

A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans.

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Szlomo Zalman Lipszyc

Szlomo Zalman Lipszyc (1765 Poznań – 1839 Warsaw), also known as Salomon Zalman Pozner as well as the Chemdas Shlomo from the title of the works he authored, was a prominent Orthodox rabbi, and first Chief Rabbi of Warsaw.

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Szymon Askenazy

Szymon Askenazy (December 24, 1865, Zawichost – June 22, 1935, Warsaw) was a Jewish-Polish historian, educator, statesman and diplomat, founder of the Askenazy school.

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Szymon Datner

Szymon Datner (2 February 1902 – 8 December 1989) was a Polish historian, Holocaust survivor and underground operative from Białystok, who was born in Kraków and died in Warsaw.

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Szymon Winawer

Szymon Abramowicz Winawer (March 6, 1838 – November 29, 1919) was a Polish chess player who won the German Chess Championship in 1883.

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Uri Nissan Gnessin

Uri Nissan Gnessin (1879–1913) was a Russian-Jewish writer and a pioneer in modern Hebrew literature.

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Vistula

The Vistula (Wisła,, Weichsel) is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest in Europe, at in length.

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Warsaw

Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland. Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw and Warsaw are Holocaust locations in Poland.

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Warsaw Ghetto

The Warsaw Ghetto (Warschauer Ghetto, officially Jüdischer Wohnbezirk in Warschau, "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the gas chambers of the Majdanek and Treblinka extermination camps.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Cemetery,_Warsaw

Also known as Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street in Warsaw, Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery.

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See also

1806 establishments in Poland

Art Nouveau architecture in Poland

Art Nouveau cemeteries

Cemeteries established in the 1800s

Cemeteries in Warsaw

Jewish cemeteries in Poland

Orthodox Judaism in Poland

Reform Judaism in Poland

Wola

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