CZĘSTOCHOWA

chĕNˌstəkôˈvə, city (1993 est. pop. 258,800), Śląskie prov., S Poland, on the Warta River. It is an important railway and industrial center, known especially for its iron and steel plant and iron-smelting works. Other industries include iron-ore mining, food processing, sawmilling, and the manufacture of chemicals and textiles. Iron ore is mined in the vicinity. Częstochowa is a celebrated religious center, and a world-famous place of pilgrimage. Its monastery stands on the Jasna Gora [mountain of light] and contains an image of Mary known as the Black Madonna, supposedly painted by St. Luke and brought to Częstochowa in the 14th cent. In 1655, when Charles X of Sweden overran Poland, the prior and a handful of soldiers defended the monastery and its relic for 40 days until the Swedes abandoned the siege. Fired by what they thought to be a miracle, the Polish people rose to successful resistance. The event figures prominently in Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel The Deluge. The monastery was again defended against the Swedes in 1702. Venerated as the "Queen of Poland," the image became the national symbol of Poland.

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books on: CzEstochowa  - 234 results

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Survivors of the Holocaust in Poland: A Portrait Based on Jewish Community Records, 1944-1947
Book by Lucjan Dobroszycki; M.E. Sharpe, 1994
Subjects: Holocaust Survivors--Poland--History--Sources, Jews--Poland--History--Sources, Poland--Ethnic Relations--Sources
...659 Bydgoszcz R 5 510 510 Czestochowa R 2 807 807 Gdansk R 4...Jews in Poland : "I was in Warsaw, Czestochowa, Radom, Cracow and Lodz--more and...H 10 Czerwony Bor -- C 7 Czestochowa -- F 4 Czortkow -- H 10 Czuczewicze...
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The War of the Doomed: Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942-1944
Book by Shmuel Krakowski, Orah Blaustein; Holmes & Meier, 1984
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland, Jews--Persecutions--Poland, Poland--Ethnic Relations, Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945--Jewish Resistance--Poland
...only somewhat less about those in Czestochowa and Cracow. The literature pertaining...historical events in other large ghettos Czestochowa and Cracow and the well-known uprising...Gouvernement and particularly to Warsaw and Czestochowa, operated, nevertheless, under slightly...
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Roads to Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust
Book by Philip Friedman, Ada June Friedman; Jewish Publication Society of America, 1980
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
...months, deportation to a labor camp; in Czestochowa, beating, six-month prison sentence...Hurbn Chenstokhov Destruction of CzEstochowa Buenos Aires, 1949 , pp. 37-38...and Extermination in the Ghetto of CzEstochowa Warsaw, 1951 , p. 16. 42...
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Rewolucja: Russian Poland, 1904-1907
Book by Robert E. Blobaum, Robert Blobaum; Cornell University Press, 1995
Subjects: Poland--History--Revolution, 1905-1907
...revolution. Concentrated in the Lodz region of Piotrkow Province, with important subcenters in the Warsaw Zyrardow and Czestochowa-Sosnowiec regions, the textile industry at the turn of the century employed over half 121, 481 workers of the entire...
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Restructuring and Privatization in Central Eastern Europe: Case Studies of Firms in Transition
Book by Saul Estrin, Josef C. Brada, Alan Gelb, Inderjit Singh; M.E. Sharpe, 1995
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Economic Policy--1989-, Industries--Europe, Eastern, Privatization--Czechoslovakia--Case Studies, Privatization--Hungary--Case Studies, Privatization--Poland--Case Studies, Structural Adjustment (Economic Policy)--Czechoslovakia--Case Studies, Structural Adjustment (Economic Policy)--Hungary--Case Studies, Structural Adjustment (Economic Policy)--Poland--Case Studies
...8. Wood Products: Lodzkie Fabryki Mebli Marek Belka 357 9. Iron/Steel: Czestochowa Steelworks Stefan Krajewski 371 10. White Goods--Refrigerators, Washers, and Dryers...
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Civil Society and Social Capital in Upper Silesia, a Region on Its Way to the European Union (1)
Journal article by Robert Geisler; East European Quarterly, Vol. 39, 2005
Subjects: Citizenship--Analysis, Civil society--Analysis, Poland--Social aspects
...was meant to embrace the Katowice, Czestochowa, and Opole areas of Upper Silesia, Cieszyn...Silesian province included the former Czestochowa, Katowice, and Bielsko-Biata provinces...13 92 114 >Czestochowa 36 36...
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The Solidarity Revolution in Poland, 1980-1981
Journal article by Jack M. Bloom; The Oral History Review, Vol. 33, 2006
Subjects: Labor unions--Demonstrations and protests, Labor unions--Poland, Poland--History, Poland--Political aspects, Revolutions--History, Revolutions--Political aspects, Solidarity--Analysis
...government delegation went to the city of Czestochowa to attempt to mitigate the anger generated...to shops catering to officials. Czestochowa, with a population of a quarter of a...result. Shortly after the events in Czestochowa, in the fall of 1980, Solidarity members...
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The Catholic Church and Poland's Return to Europe
Journal article by Timothy A. Byrnes; East European Quarterly, Vol. 30, 1996
Subjects: Catholic Church and world politics--Analysis, Church and social problems--Catholic Church, Poland--Religious aspects, Religion and politics--Analysis, Roman Catholicism--Analysis, Social problems
...John Paul II begun dismantle at the Jasna Gora Monastery in Czestochowa, the shrine of the Black Madonna, Queen of Poland, on June...1995 to 100,000 pilgrims gathered at Jasna Gora Monastery in Czestochowa, Polands most sacred Catholic shrine. Entering the European...
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From Ethnicity to Multiculturalism: The Fiction of Stuart Dybek
Journal article by Thomas S. Gladsky; MELUS, Vol. 20, 1995
Subjects: Dybek, Stuart--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ethnicity in literature--Analysis, Multiculturalism--Analysis
...and there we hear about mazurkas, Paderewski, Our Lady of Czestochowa, babushkas, and DPs, a recurring reference to non-native...Ladies murmur the rosary in front of the icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa in "Neighborhood Drunk." In a fit of madness Budhardin destroys...
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Ecumenical Resources
Journal article; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 42, 2007
Subjects: Religion and literature--Bibliography, Religious literature--Bibliography
...84. Norman Young, "The Decree on Ecumenism Forty Years On: A Reflection," pp. 85-91. Donald Bolen, "Ecumenical Prayer in Czestochowa," pp. 92-100. The following articles appear in Vol. 41, No. 2 (April, 2006): Lawrence Cross, "The Process of Ecumenical Dialogue...
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Letters
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 50, September 2000
LETTERS Czestochowa Your article on Krakow, this years European City of Culture...show Krakow but the monastery of Jasna Gora (Bright Mountain) at Czestochowa, some 114 km to the north of Krakow, at a defining moment of the...
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Poland's Cross and America's
Magazine article by L. Brent Bozell; National Review, Vol. 36, June 1, 1984
Subjects: Catholic Church in Poland--Political activity, Freedom of religion--Poland, Poland--Political aspects, Politics--United States, Religion and state--United States, Religion in schools--United States, Religion in the public schools--United States, United States--Political aspects
...Ladislaus chose to bring the icon is called Czestochowa. The origin of the icon--known as...built a chapel around this painting in Czestochowa, and founded then and there a monastery...building of a shrine church for the icon in Czestochowa. Getting back to the United States...
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Reformer & Racialist: Karl Adam's Paradoxical Legacy
Magazine article by John Connelly; Commonweal, Vol. 135, January 18, 2008
Subjects: Adam, Karl--History, Poland (World War II)--History, Poland--History, Theologians--History
...beneath a cloudy sky in Rome, but the quotation was in fact taken from a message the pope offered Polish bishops on a visit to Czestochowa in 2006. And perhaps theres something wrong with the message itself. "The church looks on the past with serenity": are these...
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The Secret of Solidarity
Magazine article by Patricia B. Bozell; National Review, Vol. 40, February 19, 1988
Subjects: Catholic Church in Poland--Political activity, Poland--Social aspects, Solidarity Independent Trade Union--Influence
...skulk in the bushes. During our visit, we took the road to Czestochowa, which houses Our Lady in the monastery of Jasna Gora. each...Warsaw for the ten-day hike of 150 miles, timed to finish at Czestochowa on the eve of the Assumptin of the Blessed Virgin Mary...
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Coincidence & Conversion
Magazine article by Alicia Chesser; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, December 2003
Subjects: Converts, Catholic--Personal narratives
...cloth, and gazed at the mother-of-pearl icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa and the huge gold tabernacle--while Ft. Norbert sang the...lectures, there would be discussion groups, tours of Krakow and Czestochowa and many other places, even outings to the mountains. The...
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Poets and Spies and a Trip to Eastern Europe
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 5, 2006
Subjects: Poets
...I was visiting the university at Czestochowa in southern Poland (officially the Polonia University at Czestochowa), where one of our Newman students...interpreter, by the way, was a lecturer at Czestochowa who had worked for some years as...
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Speedway: Polish Star's Aces Delay
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), March 19, 2004
...want Polish star Zbigniew Czerwinski, 21, as their final signing - but they might have to wait six weeks to land him. The Czestochowa youngster finished third in last years Polish Under-21 Final but doesnt qualify for a work permit because his Division One...
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SPEEDWAY: ,Jonsson's on Home Ground; GAME ON
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), September 18, 2004
...clubs No. 1 this season. Gollob moved away from his home-town club to join Tarnow, and Jonsson switched from 2003 champions Czestochowa to take his place. Though Bydgoszcz have struggled, the Swedes form in Poland has been nothing short of spectacular. He has...
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A Mosaic of Faith: Shrine to the History of Catholic People in America and Tribute to the Almighty
Newspaper article by Denise Barnes; The Washington Times, January 9, 1997
...Guadalupe is the Chapel of Our Lady of Czestochowa. The chapel commemorates more than 1...support the painting of Our Lady of Czestochowa. Its set against a gold, silver and...prayed in the Chapel of Our Lady of Czestochowa. A plaque commemorates his visit...
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Grisko-4168484
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 24, 2009
...July 25, at Suburban Family Funeral Home, 5940 W. 35th St. (corner of 35th and Austin), Cicero, proceeding to St. Mary of Czestochowa Church, for a Mass at 9:30 a.m. Interment will be in Resurrection Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Friday, at...
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CzĘstochowa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CZESTOCHOWA cheN st ko v , city (1993 est. pop. 258,800), Slaskie...chemicals and textiles. Iron ore is mined in the vicinity. Czestochowa is a celebrated religious center, and a world-famous...Madonna, supposedly painted by St. Luke and brought to Czestochowa in the 14th cent. In 1655, when Charles X of Sweden...
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Warta
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WARTA var ta, river, c.475 mi (760 km) long, rising in the Jura Krakowska, S Poland, and flowing N and W past Czestochowa and Poznan to the Oder River at Kostrzyn. It is connected with the Vistula River by the Notec River, its tributary, and...
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John II , King of Poland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Poland. In 1655, Charles X of Sweden nearly overran Poland and was checked only by the successful Polish defense of Czestochowa , which inspired the Poles to renewed resistance. George II Rakoczy , prince of Transylvania, attacked Poland from the...
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Charles X , King of Sweden
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and took Warsaw and Krakow in 1655, but Polish resistance became formidable after the heroic and successful defense of Czestochowa . Charless position deteriorated quickly. Czar Alexis of Russia invaded Livonia, Frederick III of Denmark declared war...
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Frank, Jacob
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...new converts sincerity, and in 1760, Frank was arrested in Warsaw on a charge of heresy and imprisoned in the fortress of Czestochowa; he was released (1773) after that section of Poland became Russian. Moving to Moravia, he enjoyed the favor of Empress Maria...
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