Konin
place · http://data.judaicalink.org/data/yivo/konin
This record is one of the sources of the entity page Konin.
From ls-yivo-wikidata
- same as
- wd:Q52845
From record-classes
- rdf:type
- place
From yivo
- described at
- https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Konin
- has abstract
City in central Poland about two-thirds of the way on the east–west route from Warsaw to Poznań. The Jews of Konin probably arrived from Poznań and Kalisz (about 50 km due south of Konin) and are first mentioned in a Polish court record of 1397. The community gained full autonomy…
City in central Poland about two-thirds of the way on the east–west route from Warsaw to Poznań. The Jews of Konin probably arrived from Poznań and Kalisz (about 50 km due south of Konin) and are first mentioned in a Polish court record of 1397. The community gained full autonomy from Kalisz in 1810. It is likely that a Jewish burial ground existed at the beginning of the sixteenth century, though the town’s “old” cemetery was first used in the eighteenth century. The Jewish population had reached 180 in the fifteenth century, but destruction by the Swedes (in 1656 and 1707) and plague (especially during the cholera epidemics of 1628–1631 and 1662) kept the numbers of inhabitants lower. It was estimated that 168 Jews lived in Konin in 1764–1765 (making up 24% of the town’s population); by 1827, the numbers had grown to 872 (24.4%) and in 1897 to 2,482 (31.7%). In 1939, it was approximately 3,000 (23%).- title
- Konin
- alternative label
- Konin
- preferred label
- Konin
- has related
- Haskalah
- has related
- Infeld, Leopold
- has related
- Kalisz
- has related
- About this Article (Lublin)
- has related
- L’viv
- has related
- ORT
- has related
- About this Article (Poland)
- has related
- Poznań
- has related
- Radom
- has related
- About this Article (Sport)
- has related
- Warsaw
- has related
- Zionism and Zionist Parties