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RE: International living
More fascinating stories of nomadic identities.
“Our Israelis – the history of Polish Jews in Israel” is the title of an outdoor exhibition in Warsaw presenting renowned Israeli citizens whose life stories are related to Poland. The highlight of the event is a presentation of the founding fathers of the state of Israel, whose bonds with Poland are very strong. Among them there are names such as David Ben-Gurion, Menachem Begin and Shimon Peres. http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/cms/news/1502,our-israelis-polish-jews-in-the-state-of-israel/
According to Wikipedia, Shimon Peres, President of Israel, was born Szymon Perski in Wiszniewo, Poland (now Višnieva, Belarus). The family spoke Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian at home, and Peres learned Polish at school. A Polish newspaper recalls in this connection that when Peres visits Belarus these days he says that he is a Belarussian Jew but when he comes to Poland he says that he is a Polish Jew. I guess in both cases he is right.
David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of Israel, was born in Płońsk, Congress Poland which was then part of the Russian Empire. He studied at the University of Warsaw, the same where Menachem Begin, future founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel was a student of law. Begin was born in Brest-Litovsk, (Brest), a town then part of the Russian Empire. He eventually left Poland after the German attack and 1939 invasion began. Chaim Azriel Weizmann, the first President of the State of Israel, was born near Pinsk in Belarus (at that time part of the Russian Empire).
All those cities who changed owners throughout history remind me of the city where I was born:
Originally written by J. K. on August 10, 2006 3:39 AM
Look at the history of the Polish city where I was born:
Prehistoric Lusatian stronghold: Tacitus located the East Germanic tribe of the Rugians in the area, as did modern historians. The Rugians left during the Great Migrations in the 5th century AD.
Slavonic stronghold (until 1243)
Trading city in the Holy Roman Empire (1243-1630)
Under Swedish rule (1630-1720) in the Holy Roman Empire
Major Prussian port (1720-1918)
Provincial city of Germany (1918-1939)
In the Third Reich (1939-1945)
Voivodeship capital in Poland (after 1945)
So it was first Germanic, then Slavonic, then Holy Roman, then Swedish, then Prussian, then German, and now it is Polish. |
That Polish newspaper points out that Moshe Landau, a late Israeli Supreme Cort justice, was born in Gdańsk (now in Poland) and considered himself a German Jew. Another president of the same court, Meir Shamgar, also born in Gdańsk and living on the same street, considered himself a Russian Jew. Martin Buber, in turn, who lived in Kraków (now in Poland), called himself an Austrian Jew…
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