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	JewishEncyclopedia.com - BEREK, JOSELOVICH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1794 he was commissioned by Kosciusko to form a light-horse regiment from among the Jews of Warsaw.
		Berek revived the courage of his coreligionists in the struggle for the fatherland, and fought bravely with his 500 men, especially in the defense of Warsaw.
		Berek was a knight of the Polish Gold Cross and the Virtuti Militari.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=810&letter=B (193 words)

	Dia-pozytyw: TRACES OF THE PAST
		Polish Army colonel, squadron leader of the 5th Regiment of the Mounted Fusiliers of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, knight of the crosses of the Legion of Honour and of Virtuti Militari.
		Berek Joselewicz (1760-1809) spent some time in Paris, where he witnessed the outbreak of the French Revolution.
		After the collapse of the uprising, Joselewicz emigrated from Poland and was amember of the Polish legions in Italy.
	www.diapozytyw.pl /en/site/slady_i_judaica/kock (960 words)

	: : : : F O R U M : : : : Żydzi - Polacy - Chrześcijanie
		He declared an equality of all, and equality of religion; his vision of society was very modern and included all citizens of Polish territory.
		These circumstances made it possible for Berek Joselewicz to form a regiment consisting of 500 Jews and to bravely defend his country.
		Berek Joselewicz is considered to be the partial inspiration for this character.
	www.znak.com.pl /forum/index-en.php?t=przeglad&id=989 (563 words)

	Krakow's Jews - Essay by George Alexander (1)
		Berek, the famous Jewish officer in Kosciuszko's and Napoleon's Polish army, son of Josel, was known as Berek Joselewicz.
		Berek also had a daughter, Golda, born around 1794, who married Jozef Bader.
		Also in 1809, Colonel Berek Joselewicz died in the battle of Kotzk.
	www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org /Krakow/kra_essay_1.htm (3588 words)

	People
		General Joselewicz was the only Jewish general between the Bar Kochba revolt and the 20
		Joselewicz was the steward of Prince Nassalski, the Archbishop of Vilna.
		The fight for freedom for impoverished and oppressed Jews and Christians alike was led by Christian Polish army officers who had fought for American independence in the Continental Army.
	www.connectexpress.com /~holocaustart/Other_segan_art-judaic/people.htm (457 words)

	JTA - Breaking News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The exhibition provides details of famous Jewish military leaders who have fought for Polish independence, such as Lt. Col.
		Berek Joselewicz, celebrated for his role in a 1794 uprising and in battles against various forces that tried to tear Poland asunder.
		Also noted is the large number of Jews who served Poland in World War II — 10 percent of the forces fighting for Poland under British, Soviet and underground Polish command, or some 100,000 soldiers.
	jta.org /page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=4724 (149 words)

	Stephen Roth Institute: Antisemitism and Racism
		The aspiration to sustain and broaden this tradition harmonizes with the ideological testament of the Polish democrats of the 19th and 20th centuries and with the lives of such personalities as Berek Joselewicz, Henryk Wohl or Feliks Perl.
		Joselewicz, Wohl, Perl, Gottlieb and other nineteenth century Jewish personalities served as examples of a difficult, painful dual national identity but also of the integration of two national identities.
		Mayer Bałaban listed Berek Joselewicz, military commander of the Kościuszko uprising of 1794, and Rabbi Dov Ber Mejzels, who was linked to 19th century Polish national causes, as important lecture topics that might be organized by the Warsaw branch of B’nai Brith.
	www.tau.ac.il /Anti-Semitism/asw2003-4/aleksiun.htm (6815 words)

	Heritage
		After the first partition of Poland (1772), the Poles mounted an unsuccessful uprising against their new Russian overlords, and Warsaw's Jews took an active part in the fighting.
		Many volunteered for the Jewish legion formed under Berek Joselewicz.
		In revenge, Russian troops massacred most of the city's Jewish civilian population.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/heritage/episode6/atlas/map3.html (566 words)

	Krakow - Centrum Artystyczno konferencyjne Eljot Krakow
		Kazimierz is an unusual district in which two cultures (Christian and Jewish) crossed and coexisted in the friendly atmosphere of respect for their separate traditions, language and religion.
		This is the only place where Rabbi Meisseh Street intersects Corpus Christi Street and St. Sebastian Street meets Berek Joselewicz Street.
		In 1833, when the project of beautification of Kazimierz was accepted, a street was designed.
	www.zlotehotele.pl /centrum_artystyczno_konferencyjne_eljot_krakow/eng/index.html (420 words)

	Warsaw Voice - A Grand Undertaking
		The Warsaw museum will provide access to the 16th-century yeshiva of Rabbi Jakub Polak, the 19th-century living room of banker Leopold Kronenberg and the bunker of the Jewish Military Organization during the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.
		It will be possible to take part in a religious debate with convert Jakub Frank, see the ceremony of the opening of the Great Synagogue and watch an inspection of the Jewish cavalry regiment under the leadership of Berek Joselewicz.
		There will be virtual recreations of the Jewish districts of Warsaw and Vienna, teeming with life and small shtetles (towns) such as Góra Kalwaria, with their unique character, turmoil and texture.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /view/1940 (1368 words)

	Jewish History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The latest recorded Auto da Fee was held in Valencia in 1826.
		Joselewicz joined Kosciuszko in the Polish uprising and the Napoleonic Wars.
		He believed in the importance of having Jews take part in the revolution.
	www.jewishhistory.org.il /1760.htm (896 words)

	Alexander
		Initially successful, the Kosciuszko armies were eventually defeated by superior forces and by 1796 Poland was erased from the map of Europe.
		For example Berek, son of Josel, the leader of the Jewish battalion in Kosciuszko's army, was known as Berek Joselewicz.
		In this manner, Dobrysz Aleksandrowicz, daughter of Jacob Gumple is listed in a document of marriage of her daughter, Rywka, in 1831, as Dobrysz z Gumplowiczow, i.e.
	www.ics.uci.edu /~dan/genealogy/Krakow/other/alex3.htm (5707 words)

	The Canadian Foundation of Polish-Jewish Heritage -
		Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, the leader who re-established a free Poland after World War I, was so close to the Jews that some referred to him as the "Jewish Grandpa." And American Revolutionary War hero General Tadeusz Kosciuszko had the support of the Jews during his War against the Russian tsar to free the serfs.
		Colonel Berek Joselewicz assembled 500 Jewish volunteers against the tsar to form the first Jewish battalion to fight since biblical times.
		For his service, Colonel Joselewicz received the Virtuti Militari, Poland's highest military medal.
	polish-jewish-heritage.org /eng/05-12_Museum_of_the_History_of_PJ_NYSun.htm (1133 words)

	Decline and Partition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The people of Warsaw, led by the cobbler Jan Kilinski, rose against and defeated the strongest Russian regiment in Poland.
		Berek Joselewicz commanded the first Jewish military formation since Biblical times.
		In May 7th, Kosciuszko issued the Polaniec Manifesto which abolished serfdom.
	www.kasprzyk.demon.co.uk /www/Decline.html (1173 words)

	I am ... a Countryman of Jan Karski
		Talmudic schools functioned, religious currents, of which the leading was chassidism, were created, Haskala - Jewish enlightenment found it supporters, literature in jidish was born.
		At the same time Polish Jews co-created our identity and culture for hundreds of years - from the hero of our struggle for freedom fighting arm-in-arm with Kos´ciuszko - Berek Joselewicz, through great artists Izaak Beszewis Singer, Szolem Asz, Julian Tuwim, to a very special teacher - Janusz Korczak.
		Among outstanding Jewish minds formed by the Second Polish Republic we find also brothers Ulam, Stanis?aw and Adam, who managed to escape Holocaust and find shelter in the United States.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /issues/Pres.htm (2300 words)

	Berek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		it uses material from the wikipedia article "Berek"
		Many of the Jewish fighters, some of them senior officers, became legends in the Polish army, such as Lieutenant Colonel Berek Joselewicz, a hero of the...
		Lazzara, Paul Fulhorst, Lois Fulhorst, Ruth Zitka, Rosalie Cologno, Virginia Lopez, Lucretia Raupach, Joan Wiscons, Helen Jurewicz, Susan Berek, Lois Weinstien...
	www.33beat.com /Berek.html (278 words)

	Historical data \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Polish Jews still managed to take part in the Kościuszko Insurrection of 1794.
		Colonel Berek Joselewicz excelled among them; his son Józef Berkowicz was subsequently to participate in Napoleonic campaigns and the November Insurrection, 1830.
		Under the Partition, the situation of Polish Jewry became differentiated, conditional upon whether they dwelled in the area under Russian, Austrian, or Prussian government.
	www.worldholocaustforum.org /eng/history/2 (2801 words)

	MAKE YOUR POINT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		No one single person or a group did more for our nation.
		Berek Joselewicz was the first Jew since the Maccabees who formed, equipped and commanded a Jewish cavalry regiment.
		He led Polish warrior Jews (far removed from the traditional shtetel stereotypes).
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/ArticleNews.jhtml?itemNo=662607&contrassID=13&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0 (3653 words)

	German boys clothes: regional differences Volksdeutsche Poland
		The people of Warsaw defeated a Russian regiment.
		Berek Joselewicz commanded a Jewish military unit, the first such action since the Disapora.
		Kosciuszko issued the Polaniec Manifesto abolishing serfdom (May 7).
	histclo.com /country/ger/reg/fd/fd-pol.html (2591 words)

	President of The Republic of Poland - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		State-of-the-art multimedia techniques will be used in arranging the exhibition and presenting the exhibits.
		We want to restore the picture of poor shtetl’s as well as rich palaces of industrialists, we want to recall the memory of Polish patriots: Colonel Berek Joselewicz who died for Poland in combat against the Austrians and heroic Jewish soldiers in the Polish army fighting on the slopes of Monte Cassino.
		We want to bring back to memory the theatre of Estera Rachela Kamińska, the achievements of the illustrious pianist Artur Rubinstein and the exquisite literary works of Isaac Bashevic Singer: the Jews descending from Poland without whom Polish culture and, indeed, world culture would be unimaginable.
	www.president.pl /x.node?id=2011993&eventId=2526908 (1821 words)

	Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Jewish Polish history during the 1700s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Jews took an active part in this last struggle of Poland for independence.
		With the permission of Kosciuszko, a certain Berek Joselewicz formed a regiment of light cavalry consisting entirely of Jews.
		This regiment accomplished many deeds of valor on the field of battle and distinguished itself especially at the siege of Warsaw, nearly all its members perishing in the defence and eventual massacre of Praga, the fortified suburb of the capital.
	random.dragonslife.org /jewish-polish-history-during-the-1700s/3879 (1536 words)

	Apppreciations
		Talmudic schools functioned; religious currents, of which the leading was chassidism, flowed; Haskala, Jewish enlightenment, found its supporters; literature in Yiddish was born.
		And over the centuries Polish Jews created along with us our very identity and culture: from Berek Joselewicz, the hero of our struggle for freedom, fighting arm-in-arm with Kosciuszko, through the great artists Izaak Beszewis Singer, Szolem Asz and Julian Tuwim, to a very special teacher: Janusz Korczak.
		Among outstanding Jewish minds formed by the Second Polish Republic we find also the brothers Ulam, Stanislaw and Adam, who managed to escape the Holocaust and find shelter in the United States.
	www.aulam.org /apprecix.htm (6928 words)

	President of The Republic of Poland - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		We shall revive the gone world of the zaddiks in Góra Kalwaria, poor shtetls (shtetlah) and factory owners' palaces, 15
		We shall remember Polish patriots – the heroic colonel Berek Joselewicz (Yoselevich) who died for Poland in the battle against the Austrians, and the Jewish soldiers of the battle of Monte Cassino.
		We shall remember the Theatre of Esther Rachel Kamińska and the great pianist Arthur Rubinstein who in San Francisco Opera House played the Dąbrowski Mazurka in protest against the injustice of not inviting Poland, a founder of the United Nations, to the concert marking the establishment of the World Body.
	www.president.pl /x.node?id=2011993&eventId=2526795 (1171 words)

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