[Cz-L]Iuliu Barasch's Travel Log - Stage 3: Synagogues of Krakow and Border Crossing to Galicia

Czernowitzers...
 
Let's keep following the Galician-born Jewish physician, philosopher and writer on his adventurous journey to the Jewish communities in the Krakow Area, Galicia, Bukovina, Moldavia and Walachia:
 
http://hauster.blogspot.de/2014/01/iuliu-baraschs-travel-report-on-jewish.html
 
February 11, 1843 - Stage 3: Iuliu Barasch is reporting on the seven main sysnagogues of the Jewish District of Kazimierz, which constitute the largest such complex in Europe next to Prague. In Podgorze, which a century later, between 1941-1943 became the location for the Krakow Ghetto, Iuliu Barasch is crossing the border from the "Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Krakow" to Galicia, where Jews constituted 1/3 of the population in many cities and dominated parts of the local economy.

German transcription: http://hauster.de/data/Barasch1843021106.pdf

JewishGen KehilaLinks: "...The period around 1800 was an eventful period. In America a free people elected their third president. In 1794 Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a hero of the American Revolution, led a Polish insurrection from Krakow against the Russian invaders of Poland. With his American experience Kosciuszko knew that wars can not be won by a few noblemen alone. In Poland, he tried to form an army of nobles, as well as peasants and Jews. To the peasants he offered freedom from serfdom, to the Jews emancipation and equality. He formed a Jewish battalion led by Colonel Berek Joselewicz. After initial successes, the Kosciuszko armies were defeated by superior forces. By 1796 Poland was eliminated from the map of Europe. Warsaw fell to the Prussians, Krakow was occupied by the armies of Austria. Soon, however, Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of France and, after defeating Prussia, formed an independent Duchy of Warsaw from recovered Polish lands. In 1809, after defeating the Austrians at Wagram, he added Krakow to the Varsovian Duchy. Also in 1809, Colonel Berek Joselewicz died in the battle of Kotzk. After Napoleon's defeat Poland fell to the Russian Tsar. However, the Austrians did not want Russia to have Krakow, so the Congress of Vienna in 1815 created an autonomous city-state, the "Free, independent, and strictly neutral Krakow republic". This city-state existed until 1846, when it became a part of Austrian Galitzia..."

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Krakow/kra_essay_1.htm

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands
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