Vaad Roshei Hashochtim of Poland and Lithuania (Council of Leaders of the Shochtim of Poland and Lithuania) (He: ועד ראשי השוחטים דמדינת פולין וליטא) was...

communities. A prime example of this was the Vaad Rosh Hashochtim of Poland and Lithuania, a council that consisted of seven Rabbis that regulated the...

until the early years of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth created in 1569, Poland was the most tolerant country in Europe. Poland became a shelter for...

rabbi and Rosh Hashochtim of Poland (overseeing the country's kosher slaughterers) before the Holocaust. After the Holocaust he was Chief Rabbi of Hanover...

Jews were the primary victims of the Nazi Germany-organized Holocaust in Poland. Throughout the German occupation of Poland, Jews were rescued from the...

dismemberment of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the second half of the 18th century by the neighbouring empires (see also: Partitions of Poland). The first...

Alexander of Poland readmits Jews to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 1525 – The first Jew is promoted to knighthood by king Sigismund I of Poland, without...

first Lithuanian pogrom in modern city on Lithuanian Jews took place, as noted by Timothy Snyder, citing Michał Pius Römer. Many other events in Poland were...

The history of the Jews in 19th-century Poland covers the period of Jewish-Polish history from the dismemberment of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...

Jews of Poland was a tumultuous period as political unrest in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth led to changes in the treatment and behavior of Jews...

merchants came to trade from all over Poland and Lithuania. Many of them received special privileges from the King of Poland in regards to both the internal...

comprised an appreciable part of Poland's population. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, known for its religious tolerance and described as Paradisus Judaeorum...

Poland Hasidic Judaism in Lithuania "Kraków, Poland Jewish History Tour". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 2018-04-22. "History of Kraków's Jews until 1939"...

Judaism in Poland is the history of Hasidic Judaism and Hasidic philosophy in Poland. Hasidic Judaism in Poland began with Elimelech Weisblum of Lizhensk...