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Poloniusz  4 | 887
15 Jul 2024   #841
for 40 years

At least 40 generations. They are authentic instead of the contemporary converts with pale privilege that we all know of today.

But many have ties to communities in Europe.

Black, Jewish And Avoiding The Synagogue On Yom Kippur

I'm a black woman. No one ever assumes I'm Jewish. When I talk about Judaism, people look at me in a way that makes me feel like I'm breaking into my own house. Especially the people inside the house.

You say you love the musicals of George Gershwin? Ha, that sounds just like Gershenfeld, my mother's maiden name, which is also my middle name, which means "barley field" in Yiddish, the language my ancestors spoke in Eastern Europe.


npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/10/12/496868502/black-jewish-and-avoiding-the-synagogue-on-yom-kippur
OP Torq  8 | 955
21 Jul 2024   #842
Little Poland in Paris: 1858

France has always been one of the main destinations of Polish emigrants throughout history. As with many immigrant communities, they were often far from affluent. The part of Paris that used to be called Little Poland in the past extended from Monceau park to de Clichy square. In the photo above we see how Champlain street - home to many Polish families - looked like in 1858. Below, Polish school at Lamandé street 13/15.
OP Torq  8 | 955
21 Jul 2024   #843
Refugees, welcome: 2024

Amidst the continuing crisis of illegal immigration through the Belarussian border, fans of Legia Warsaw prepared a controversial display during the yesterday's game against Zagłębie Lubin (Legia won 2:0). Supporters of Legia Warsaw are well known for their interesting but sometimes quite provocative displays during games.
Alien  24 | 5656
22 Jul 2024   #844
Refugees, welcome

You used to greet guests with bread and salt... now with a pig and a hammer? 🐷🔨
OP Torq  8 | 955
22 Jul 2024   #845
now with a pig and a hammer? 🐷🔨

Nowa świecka tradycja, as the classic said.
mafketis  38 | 10945
22 Jul 2024   #846
Nowa świecka tradycja

Tradycja.... ładne imię.
OP Torq  8 | 955
22 Jul 2024   #847
Exactly. Props, Maf. Not bad for an American. :)
OP Torq  8 | 955
24 Jul 2024   #848
Regained Lands: 1947

Settler grandma in a turnip field with her granddaughter - a member of the first generation born already in those ancient Piast lands.
OP Torq  8 | 955
24 Jul 2024   #849
Walk of Life: 2017

Members of Wieliczka Colliery Band resting after the 2nd Little Poland March for Life and Family. Cracow, October 2017.
OP Torq  8 | 955
25 Jul 2024   #850
(Up)rising: 1944

Soldiers of 1st Sabotage-Assault Platoon of the 3rd "Bartkiewicz" Company defending the barricade at the intersection of Świętokrzyska and Mazowiecka streets (as seen from Napoleon Square).
pawian  221 | 25135
25 Jul 2024   #851
defending the barricade

It is obvious they posed for the photo. :):):)

The city if Katowice was named Stalinocity after Stalin died in 1953. The new name lasted 3 years.


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OP Torq  8 | 955
25 Jul 2024   #852
It is obvious they posed for the photo. :):):)

Of course: not taking proper cover and the guy in the second rank aiming his pistol xD

The new name lasted 3 years.

Yes, that wasn't the best idea.
OP Torq  8 | 955
26 Jul 2024   #853
Waiting for the president: 1931

Silesians fought bravely in three uprisings...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_Uprisings

... for their region to become a part of newly reborn Poland. In the photo above we see a group of Silesians awaiting the arrival of president Ignacy Mościcki to Istebna in July 1931.
OP Torq  8 | 955
26 Jul 2024   #854
(Up)rising 2: 1944

Another staged photo but this time colorised. An album of 100 colorised photos from the Warsaw Uprising has been published recently - highly recommended...

pap.pl/aktualnosci/powstanie-w-kolorze-ukazal-sie-album-ze-zdjeciami-walczacej-warszawy
Bobko  27 | 2087
26 Jul 2024   #855
An album of 100 colorised photos

These photos are crazy. Wow!

Regarding staged photos... it's not even the fact that a guy is standing sheepishly with a pistol - it's the heroic camera man!
OP Torq  8 | 955
26 Jul 2024   #856
These photos are crazy. Wow!

No new photos there, and many of them very well known, but they look interesting after the colorisation.
OP Torq  8 | 955
27 Jul 2024   #857
Normal life in the Białowieża Forest: 1975

In the photo we can see a wild forest creature, tough and resilient, able to face difficult weather conditions and sometimes aggressive. On the left we see a wild boar.
Alien  24 | 5656
27 Jul 2024   #858
Normal life in the Białowieża Forest

They eat breakfast together. And which one of them slept in the bed?
mafketis  38 | 10945
27 Jul 2024   #859
Don't judge them! It gets very lonely in the forest!
OP Torq  8 | 955
29 Jul 2024   #860
Toruń by night: 2024

Toruń was one of the richest and one of the four largest cities of the Kingdom of Poland back in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. These days it's respectable 16th and still retains a lot of its old charm and lovely medieval architecture, so if you're ever in Poland try to visit the city where Nicolaus Copernicus was born - you won't regret it!
AntV  3 | 691
29 Jul 2024   #861
Poland try to visit the city where Nicolaus Copernicus was born - you won't regret it!

I can emphatically attest! You can even make your own piernik at the Muzeum of Pierniki.
OP Torq  8 | 955
29 Jul 2024   #862
:)

You can also visit the famous Planetarium, go for a cruise on Vistula or just enjoy a walk in the beautiful Old Town.
AntV  3 | 691
29 Jul 2024   #863
Not to mention the Cathedral.

As yo say, a charming town.
OP Torq  8 | 955
30 Jul 2024   #864
Prehistoric Poles: 2019

Yes, yes - I know they weren't really Poles in full meaning of this word, but they lived in the lands of today's Poland (Holy Cross Mountains) and they were very skillful miners of Neolithic and Bronze ages. The latest addition to Polish UNESCO heritage sites - Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region - is an ensemble of four mining sites, dating from about 3900 to 1600 BC, dedicated to the extraction and processing of striped flint, which was mainly used for axe-making.

You can see more pictures here: zabytek.pl/pl/obiekty/g-298387
pawian  221 | 25135
30 Jul 2024   #865
Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region -

I once took my two eldest ones to that mine. They thought it was interesting but felt very relieved when outside at last.


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Feniks  1 | 545
30 Jul 2024   #866
You can even make your own piernik at the Muzeum of Pierniki.

I can't remember why now but I couldn't make it on the day I visited. Was not a happy bunny :(
AntV  3 | 691
30 Jul 2024   #867
We had tickets and everything to make the piernik, but my slow-a$$ willful mother-in-law (I love her and all) had to order a coffee after dinner and made us late and we couldn't enter.

But, I'm over it, I swear, it's ancient history...in the past. I mean, can't you just hold off on the coffee for one hour? Is it going to kill ya? Anyway, like I said, I'm over it. Buried in the past. It's not like all of Toruń was in danger of running out of coffee beans
OP Torq  8 | 955
30 Jul 2024   #868
It's not like all of Toruń was in danger of running out of coffee beans

:D

It's a good thing you're not the kind of guy to hold a grudge for long.
Feniks  1 | 545
30 Jul 2024   #869
and made us late

Thinking back it might have been something to do with the time I got in there as to why I couldn't make it.....

It's not like all of Toruń was in danger of running out of coffee beans

Definitely over it 😂
AntV  3 | 691
30 Jul 2024   #870
time I got in there

Probably was, if I recall correctly the last session is at or before 4 pm.

It's a good thing you're not the kind of guy to hold a grudge for long.

😀. Yep, here and gone like vapor on hot dry summer noon.

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