Forgotten Galicia - Historical Figures Archives https://forgottengalicia.com/category/history/historical_figures/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:49:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png Forgotten Galicia - Historical Figures Archives https://forgottengalicia.com/category/history/historical_figures/ 32 32 Country of Roxolania: Ukrainian Women in the First World War https://forgottengalicia.com/country-of-roxolania-ukrainian-women-in-the-first-world-war/ https://forgottengalicia.com/country-of-roxolania-ukrainian-women-in-the-first-world-war/#respond Sat, 22 Jan 2022 12:23:51 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=49496 By Mariana Baidak for Lokalna Istoriya (original in Ukrainian) “Out of my love for Ukraine, I took a rifle and went to the field to beat the enemy with physical force,” said Olena Stepaniv, the most famous Ukrainian military woman, more than 100 years ago. Since then, the issue of […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/country-of-roxolania-ukrainian-women-in-the-first-world-war/feed/ 0 Frank Seiden: A Galician Jewish Jack-of-all-Trades in Turn-of-the-Century New York https://forgottengalicia.com/frank-seiden-a-galician-jewish-jack-of-all-trades-in-turn-of-the-century-new-york/ https://forgottengalicia.com/frank-seiden-a-galician-jewish-jack-of-all-trades-in-turn-of-the-century-new-york/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2021 08:58:00 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=11450 By Daniel Carkner Frank Seiden is an enigmatic figure of the early Jewish entertainment world in the United States. Born in Galicia in 1860, he arrived in New York’s Lower East side in 1877 and eventually became known as a street performer, magician, and vaudeville actor. By 1900 he became […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/frank-seiden-a-galician-jewish-jack-of-all-trades-in-turn-of-the-century-new-york/feed/ 1 The Broderzingers: Galicia’s Itinerant Yiddish Folk Troupes https://forgottengalicia.com/the-broderzingers-galicias-itinerant-yiddish-folk-troupes/ https://forgottengalicia.com/the-broderzingers-galicias-itinerant-yiddish-folk-troupes/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2021 12:38:32 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=9861 The Broderzingers The Broderzingers (“singers of Brody”) were itinerant troupes of folksingers who performed in taverns and inns initially in Galicia, and later in Bukovina, Transcarpathia, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Emerging in the early nineteenth century, these performers were among the first to perform Yiddish-language songs outside of Purim […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/the-broderzingers-galicias-itinerant-yiddish-folk-troupes/feed/ 1 Przemyśl at the Turn of the Century: From the Notes of Feliks Mantel https://forgottengalicia.com/przemysl-at-the-turn-of-the-century-from-the-notes-of-feliks-mantel/ https://forgottengalicia.com/przemysl-at-the-turn-of-the-century-from-the-notes-of-feliks-mantel/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:04:48 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=10326 Below is a translation from Polish of the article Przemyśl na przełomie wieków …z zapisków Feliksa Mantela Feliks Mantel (1906-1990) came from a family of Przemyśl Jews. His father, Józef Mantel (1875-1920), was a lawyer and a close associate of [lawуer and socialist politician] Herman Lieberman. Józef Piłsudski, who stayed in […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/przemysl-at-the-turn-of-the-century-from-the-notes-of-feliks-mantel/feed/ 4 Nataliya Kobrynska: Organizer of the Feminist Movement in Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/nataliya-kobrynska-organizer-of-the-feminist-movement-in-galicia/ https://forgottengalicia.com/nataliya-kobrynska-organizer-of-the-feminist-movement-in-galicia/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2020 13:56:27 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=10267 The tour company Pro Lviv with Love has initiated a project dedicated to giving new life to the women’s almanac Pershyi Vinok (First Wreath), originally published in Lviv in 1887. The almanac was the first work in Galicia and Ukraine to raise the “woman question” — in addition to works […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/nataliya-kobrynska-organizer-of-the-feminist-movement-in-galicia/feed/ 1 Kosiv: Former Center of Natural Medicine and Vegetarianism https://forgottengalicia.com/kosiv-former-center-of-natural-medicine-and-vegetarianism/ https://forgottengalicia.com/kosiv-former-center-of-natural-medicine-and-vegetarianism/#respond Sat, 19 Sep 2020 11:46:52 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=10013 Back during Austrian times and up until World War II, the Carpathian Hutsul town of Kosiv (formerly Kosów) was a center of natural medicine and vegetarianism. This is thanks to Dr. Apolinary Tarnawski (1851-1943), a Polish physician who at the end of the nineteenth century founded a private sanatorium in […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/kosiv-former-center-of-natural-medicine-and-vegetarianism/feed/ 0 Galicia’s Adventurous and Free-Spirited Sofia Jablonska https://forgottengalicia.com/galicias-adventurous-and-free-spirited-sofia-jablonska/ https://forgottengalicia.com/galicias-adventurous-and-free-spirited-sofia-jablonska/#respond Sat, 06 Jun 2020 10:40:01 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=9582 From Lviv Today – a bilingual lifestyle magazine Here is the astounding story of the Galician girl who managed to conquer thousands of fans with her poetic travel essays and become Ukraine’s first internationally renowned travel writer, documentalist, and journalist. Early beginnings Sofia Jablonska was born in 1907 in the […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/galicias-adventurous-and-free-spirited-sofia-jablonska/feed/ 0 The ‘Galician Gaudi’: Teodor Talowski & His Fanciful Architecture https://forgottengalicia.com/the-galician-gaudi-teodor-talowski-his-fanciful-architecture/ https://forgottengalicia.com/the-galician-gaudi-teodor-talowski-his-fanciful-architecture/#respond Sat, 04 Jan 2020 17:11:43 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=7769 Teodor Talowski is one of the most important Polish architects of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He has been described as the “Galician Gaudi” or the “Polish Gaudi” because he combined late Historicism with Secession (Art Nouveau) and Modernist influences. His works include apartment buildings, churches, chapels, and […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/the-galician-gaudi-teodor-talowski-his-fanciful-architecture/feed/ 0 Engineer Słowik and His Enduring Mark on Lviv https://forgottengalicia.com/engineer-slowik-and-his-enduring-mark-on-lviv/ https://forgottengalicia.com/engineer-slowik-and-his-enduring-mark-on-lviv/#comments Fri, 05 Jul 2019 12:03:02 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=6201 The Recovered Story of a Prewar Metalworks Owner Countless people contributed to the urban development of Lviv and left their enduring mark on the city. It is thanks to these architects, urban planners, engineers, entrepreneurs, craftsmen, construction workers, and factory workers that we have the beautiful architecture, cobblestone roads, infrastructure, […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/engineer-slowik-and-his-enduring-mark-on-lviv/feed/ 1 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch: Much More than Masochism https://forgottengalicia.com/leopold-von-sacher-masoch-much-more-than-masochism/ https://forgottengalicia.com/leopold-von-sacher-masoch-much-more-than-masochism/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:58:11 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=3471 While today the term “masochism” is widely known, few know its origin, let alone anything about the man behind the name—Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. A while back I posted about this Lviv native’s childhood experiences in the Galician capital (found here), but now I’d like to share a few curious, lesser-known facts […]

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