Bobowa

Bobowa
Bobowa
	Panorama of the town
	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	38-350
Area code	+48 18
Car plates	KGR
Voivodeship roads
Website	http://www.bobowa.pl/

Bobowa

Lesser Polish Voivodeship, it is situated 18 kilometres (11 miles) west of Gorlice and 83 km (52 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kraków. It was formerly a village, but was granted town status on 1 January 2009.^[5] Bobowa is also located on a railway line running from Tarnów to the border with Slovakia at Leluchów. As of December 2021, the town has a population of 3,101.^[3]

History

It is not known when the village of Bobowa appeared on the map of Poland. It probably was a Slavic

wójt

, who in 1467 was a man named Jan Lempart.

In the mid-16th-century Bobowa emerged as a local center of the

Protestant Reformation, and some time in the early 17th century, the town was purchased by the Jordan family. In 1740 its owner was Stanisław Łętowski. Following the Partitions of Poland, Bobowa in 1772 became part of Austrian province of Galicia, where it remained until late 1918. In 1934, the government of the Second Polish Republic

stripped Bobowa of its town charter due to its depopulation. Bobowa regained its town status on January 1, 2009.

Jews in Bobowa

The Jews were brought to Bobowa by Michał Jaworski in 1732 in order to improve the town's collapsing economy. A synagogue was erected in 1756 serving the needs of 44 families.

tsadik of the Bobov dynasty

.

It was also the home of Gen.

Humboldt State University

, California, describes these events in his autobiography Restless Memories. He devoted his academic career to the study of altruism, having himself been rescued by a Polish peasant woman called Balwina.

After the war Grand Rabbi

Ben-Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam

.

Main sights

Among the tourist attractions of Bobowa is the All Saints Church (14th century) and the St. Sophia Church at the local

lace-making. Since 2000 it houses an annual Bobbin lace

Festival.

Notable people

Rabbis of Bobowa

References

^ "Burmistrz". bobowa.pl (in Polish). Bulletin of Public Information of Bobowa. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
^ "Local Data Bank". bdl.stat.gov.pl. Statistics Poland. Retrieved 7 October 2022. Category K1, group G441, subgroup P1410. Data for territorial unit 1205034.
^ ^a ^b "Local Data Bank". bdl.stat.gov.pl. Statistics Poland. Retrieved 7 October 2022. Category K3, group G7, subgroup P1336. Data for territorial unit 1205034.
^ "Local Data Bank". bdl.stat.gov.pl. Statistics Poland. Retrieved 7 October 2022. Category K3, group G7, subgroup P2425. Data for territorial unit 1205034.
^ Ordinance of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Poland Archived 2009-03-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Polish)
^ "History". Virtual Shtetl. POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Retrieved 7 October 2022.

Bibliography

Oliner S, Oliner P. The altruistic personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe. New York: The Free Press; 1988.
Oliner S. Restless Memories, Berkeley, California: Judah L. Magnes Museum; 1979.
Gilbert M. The Boys; triumph over adversity. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 1996.
Szuflada Generała Wieniawa, edited by Elżbieta Grabska and Marek Pitasz, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw 1998
Testimony held at Yad Vashem about Bobowa during the German occupation

External links

[1] "Burmistrz". bobowa.pl (in Polish). Bulletin of Public Information of Bobowa. Retrieved 7 October 2022.

[area-2] "Local Data Bank". bdl.stat.gov.pl. Statistics Poland. Retrieved 7 October 2022. Category K1, group G441, subgroup P1410. Data for territorial unit 1205034.

[population-3] "Local Data Bank". bdl.stat.gov.pl. Statistics Poland. Retrieved 7 October 2022. Category K3, group G7, subgroup P1336. Data for territorial unit 1205034.

[population_density-4] "Local Data Bank". bdl.stat.gov.pl. Statistics Poland. Retrieved 7 October 2022. Category K3, group G7, subgroup P2425. Data for territorial unit 1205034.

[5] Ordinance of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Poland Archived 2009-03-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Polish)

[6] "History". Virtual Shtetl. POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Retrieved 7 October 2022.

[5]

[3]

v t e Gmina Bobowa
Town and seat	Bobowa
Villages	Berdechów Brzana Dolna Brzana Górna Jankowa Sędziszowa Siedliska Stróżna Wilczyska

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