Przeworsk,  Poland

Przeworsk is included in the Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (KRRG). Shtetlach were interwoven together like a tapestry and the Jewish people of neighboring shtetlach linked by marriages, trade and marketing. They shared schools, cemeteries, kosher butchers, bakers and more. Smaller shtetlach registered their birth, marriages and death in a nearby larger shtetl. One should research the neighboring area as well as an individual shtetl. The KRRG web site has resources and information that is relevant to many shtetlach. To search for family links and learn more about neighboring shtetlach, please visit the Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (KRRG).

Shtetl Variant names: Perevorsk, Pshewarsk, Pshevorsk

Administrative District:  Lańcut 

Subdistrict - Judicial / Tax District:   Przeworsk

Location:

• 34.8 miles ESE of  Kolbuszowa
• 22.2 miles E of Rzeszów
• Latitude 50°04’  22°30’Longitude  

Jewish Population before the Holocaust:    1,457

History/Geography:

• In present day Poland Przeworsk is in the Podkarpackie Province (Województwo). Przeworsk is the seat of the County (Powiat) and Administrative District (Starostwo) which includes the city and commune of Przeworsk and the following communes / municipalities (Gminas): Adamówka, Gać, Jawornik Polski, Kańczuga, Sieniawa, Tryńcza, Zarzecze.
• Mention of Przeworsk in the Rzeszów Yizkor Book [Page 107 - Hassidic Tzadikim of Rzeszów and Environs]
• Mention of Przeworsk in the Lezajsk Yizkor Book  [Page 206 - The Belz Hassidim of Lizhensk]
• Mention of Przeworsk in the Lezajsk Yizkor Book  [Page 121 - Myself, Death, and Meirish Steinbach]

Holocaust:

Maps:

• View Przeworsk via Map Quest 
• Map of downtown Przeworsk at the Bus Station. Submitted by Suzanne A. Wertheim

Resources: 

• The 1913 Galicia Business Directory.  Submitted by Leon Gold
• The 1929 Business Directory
• The 1929 Business Directory translation 
• Archival Holdings
• Przeworsk Yad Vashem Listings.  Submitted by Leon Gold  (with permission from Yad Vashem)

Photos & Postcards:

• Road sign to Albigowa, Lańcut and Przeworsk.  Submitted by Howard Nightingale
• Photos of Przeworsk - 2005. Submitted by Suzanne A. Wertheim
• Photos of Przeworsk - before 1944. Submitted by Suzanne A. Wertheim
• The Przeworsk Synagogue
• Jewish Gravestones Submitted by Suzanne A. Wertheim

Vital Records:

• Birth Certificate of Chaja April Banda, issued in Przeworsk.  Submitted by Myriam Fender

Travelogues: 

Articles:

• Yom Kippur of the Villagers. by Chaim Dov Armon Kestenbaum

The People of Przeworsk:

Faces:

• Nadel - Banda Family photos. Submitted by Myriam Fender
• The Rebbes of Przeworsk. Submitted by Suzanne A. Wertheim.

Biographies:

• Nadel / Fuhrmann / Banda Family Biography.   Submitted by Myriam Fender

Biographies, Family Histories:

• The cholera epidemic in Przeworsk. Submitted by Myriam Fender

After Emigration:

• Przeworsk Landsmanshaftn and Congregations (Including a list of burial society plots in the New York metropolitan area)

Links and Databases: When searching the links below, please remember that many towns in Poland have the same name. Make sure that the information you find refers to the shtetl you are researching.

Search for Przeworsk. The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland and JewishGen "All Poland Database" is a multiple database search facility, which incorporates all of the following databases: JRI -Poland,  Yizkor Book Necrologies, JewishGen Family Finder )JGFF), JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR), 1891 Galicia Business Directory, 1929 Polish Business Directory, 1890-1891 New York Immigrants from Poland, Austria and Galicia, JG Discussion Group Archives, SIG Mailing List Archives and much much more. Search for any surname and /or town. the "Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation Eastern European Archival Database" to see where some vital records are.

Przeworsk Today:

Local Contact for Przeworsk:

• Urząd Miasta Przeworsk   [Przeworsk Municipal Office / City Hall]

• ul. Jagiellońska 10
  37-200 Przeworsk,
  tel. +48 16 648-73-97
  fax +48 16 648-80-74

• e-mail:  e-mail: UG_Przeworsk@hot.pl

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