Kalisz
Poland
Kalisz, a city in central Poland (Greater Poland), is home to one of the oldest documented Jewish communities in the country. In 1264 Duke Bolesław the Pious of Greater Poland issued the Statute of Kalisz, a charter granting the Jews legal protections and communal autonomy that became the foundation of Jewish rights across medieval Poland. The community remained a long-established center of Polish Jewish life into the modern period.
5 teachers · 1 work · 12 most-discussed ideas
Teachers who lived here
Avraham Abele Gombiner
Abraham Abele Gombiner (1635–1682)
death 1655–1682
Shabsai Bass
Rabbi Shabsai Bass (1641–1718)
birth 1641–1655
- נת
Netivot HaMishpat
Yaakov Lorberbaum of Lissa (1760–1832)
lived 1822–1832
Shlomo Eiger
Rabbi Shlomo Eiger (1785–1852)
rabbinate 1831–1837
Meir Don Plotsky
Rabbi Meir Don Plotsky (1866–1928)
study 1875
Works composed here
- 1665
Magen Avraham
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Kalisz. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.
- Shabbat (The Sabbath)289 passages
- Chametz (Leaven)118 passages
- Pesach (Festival of Passover, umbrella)106 passages
- Minhag (Custom)86 passages
- Sukkah (Booth)76 passages
- Muktzeh (Shabbat-Prohibited Handling)74 passages
- Tefillin (Phylacteries)73 passages
- Kavanah (Intention)63 passages
- Amirah L'Nochri (Asking a Non-Jew to Perform Melachah)63 passages
- Melachah (Forbidden Creative Labor)62 passages
- Birkot HaNehenin (Blessings on Enjoyment)57 passages
- Taanit (Public Fast Days, general)53 passages