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Poznań’s Jewish community was one of the earliest to be established on Polish soil; the first reference to Jews living in the town comes from 1379. Tradition dates the town’s synagogue to 1367, and the cemetery 1438. In the second half of the fifteenth century saw the establishment of Poznań’s famed yeshiva, known as Lomde Pozna . Tracing Jewish ancestors from Posen Province is a challenge for ...
The Province of Posen (German: Provinz Posen, Polish: Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of Prussia from 1848 to 1919. Posen was established as a province of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1848 after the Greater Poland Uprising, converted from the Grand Duchy of Posen annexed by Prussia in the Polish partitions of 1815, and became part of the German Empire in 1871. Posen was part of the Free State ...
This project seeks to trace and connect people with the surname Philippsborn and variants Philipsborn and Phillipsborn, associated with the South Prussian town of Bentschen, Posen, modern-day Zbąszyń, in Nowy Tomyśl powiat or county. It is located close to the border of today's Germany. Earlier associated with the Kingdom of Prussia, the town became part of the Grand Duchy of Posen after the Na...