Image:1.1.1-Settlement-3

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           Wojciech Gerson, '''Casimir the Great and Jews. (Wandering Jews ask Casimir III the Great for shelter in Poland)''', oil on canvas, 1874. 

       Among enlightened circles of Polish society during the second half of the 19th century, a romantic idea took hold that conceived of Jews as persecuted wanderers who were sheltered by Polish monarchs in their lands. The painting by the celebrated Polish neo-romantic artist Gerson depicts King Casimir III the Great standing on the porch of his palace in Kraków and listening to the pleas of Jews who fled the horrors of persecution and the Black Death in Central Europe in 1348.

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Annotation File	Annotation data
Region	Western Galicia
Source	National Museum in Warsaw

       Time Period(s) 
       Before 17721772-1914

       Topics

• Migration and Diaspora
• Jews and Their Surrounding

       Image ID: 1.1.1-Settlement-3 
       
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