Jewish history Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/jewish-history/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Thu, 08 May 2025 11:44:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png Jewish history Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/jewish-history/ 32 32 Between Myth and Memory: 1930s Galicia by the Artist who Never Was https://forgottengalicia.com/between-myth-and-memory-1930s-galicia-by-the-artist-who-never-was/ https://forgottengalicia.com/between-myth-and-memory-1930s-galicia-by-the-artist-who-never-was/#respond Mon, 05 May 2025 13:33:25 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=52203 By Ari Neumann *** Discover the curious case of “Lazar Weissmann,” a supposed Jewish artist who captured scenes of 1930s Galicia in 100s of watercolors, at a new exhibition of the History Museum of Kolomyia opening on May 16 at 14:00, for one month. Found as far as Canada, to as […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/between-myth-and-memory-1930s-galicia-by-the-artist-who-never-was/feed/ 0 Shund on Shellac or Gimpel’s Theatre, Lemberg: The Sounds of a Popular Yiddish Theatre Preserved on Gramophone Records 1904–1913 https://forgottengalicia.com/shund-on-shellac-or-gimpels-theatre-lemberg/ https://forgottengalicia.com/shund-on-shellac-or-gimpels-theatre-lemberg/#respond Wed, 17 Apr 2024 08:33:24 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=51212 This version of Michael Aylward’s article “Shund on Shellac or Gimpel’s Theatre, Lemberg” is based on a much longer version with various appendices. The complete version is posted in PDF format at the bottom of this article and may be downloaded. If you wish to quote from either of these […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/shund-on-shellac-or-gimpels-theatre-lemberg/feed/ 0 ‘Chorna Rillia’: How a Galician Cossack Folk Song Became Popular Ukrainian and Yiddish World War I Ballads https://forgottengalicia.com/chorna-rillia-how-a-galician-cossack-folk-song-became-popular-ukrainian-and-yiddish-world-war-i-ballads/ https://forgottengalicia.com/chorna-rillia-how-a-galician-cossack-folk-song-became-popular-ukrainian-and-yiddish-world-war-i-ballads/#comments Fri, 15 Sep 2023 11:48:42 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=50770 Recently, on Instagram I came across an intriguing post from Yiddish Shul, revealing a surprising connection between a famous Yiddish World War I ballad and a Ukrainian folk song. Although I was familiar with the Ukrainian song, its origins were unknown to me. As I delved into its history, I […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/chorna-rillia-how-a-galician-cossack-folk-song-became-popular-ukrainian-and-yiddish-world-war-i-ballads/feed/ 3 The Lost Jewish Cemeteries of Lviv https://forgottengalicia.com/the-lost-jewish-cemeteries-of-lviv/ https://forgottengalicia.com/the-lost-jewish-cemeteries-of-lviv/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2023 01:22:59 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=11556 While many old Jewish cemeteries still remain around Galicia, the same cannot be said of the Jewish burial grounds in Lviv (Lemberg / Lwów). Only found fragments of their ancient tombstones (matzevah) — which were used by the Nazis and Soviets as pavement and building material — remind us of […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/the-lost-jewish-cemeteries-of-lviv/feed/ 3 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 Jewish Traces in Lviv: Tombstones Turned to Pavement https://forgottengalicia.com/jewish-traces-in-lviv-tombstones-turned-to-pavement/ https://forgottengalicia.com/jewish-traces-in-lviv-tombstones-turned-to-pavement/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:01:35 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=2184 When Lviv’s Lenin statue was toppled in 1990, fragments of Jewish tombstones were discovered in the foundation. This came as no surprise—it was a known fact that Nazi and Soviet authorities not only destroyed Lviv’s Jewish cemeteries, but also used the stone to pave the city. Lviv had two Jewish […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/jewish-traces-in-lviv-tombstones-turned-to-pavement/feed/ 2 Lviv’s Jewish Quarter in the Faded Memories of Witold Szolginia https://forgottengalicia.com/lvivs-jewish-quarter-in-the-faded-memories-of-witold-szolginia/ https://forgottengalicia.com/lvivs-jewish-quarter-in-the-faded-memories-of-witold-szolginia/#respond Sat, 20 Jun 2020 12:15:29 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=9724 An excerpt from Tamten Lwów—an eight-volume monograph about Lwów (Lviv)—in which Witold Szolginia describes the Jewish quarter as he remembers it from his visits in the 1930s. Witold Szolginia (1923-1996) was an architect, a native of Lwów until he was expelled to present-day Poland in 1946. Called “the encyclopedist of […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/lvivs-jewish-quarter-in-the-faded-memories-of-witold-szolginia/feed/ 0 The Galician Petroleum Industry and Its Connection to the Jews of the Drohobycz Region https://forgottengalicia.com/the-galician-petroleum-industry-and-its-connection-to-the-jews-of-the-drohobycz-region/ https://forgottengalicia.com/the-galician-petroleum-industry-and-its-connection-to-the-jews-of-the-drohobycz-region/#comments Sat, 15 Feb 2020 11:29:00 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=5360 “The Galician Petroleum Industry” by Valerie Schatzker for the Drohobycz Administrative District website From the middle of the nineteenth century, the history of the Jews of the Drohobycz Administrative District was closely connected with the history of the petroleum industry. As the demand for naphtha lamp oil grew, the oil-rich […]

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