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Esterka (undated, pre-1839) Esterka (Estera) refers to a mythical Jewish mistress of Casimir the Great, the historical King of Poland who reigned between 1333 and 1370. Medieval Polish and Jewish chroniclers considered the legend as historical fact and report a wonderful love story between the beautiful Jewess and the great monarch. [1]
Jul 22, 2007 · Another slice of the Esterka legend is that the king built castles in Kazimierz Dolny and Lobzow for his lover. Lobzow was a village at the time but is now part of Krakow. Both of the castles were built in the mid-14th Century and are open to the tourists. The legend of Kazimierz and Esterka has a dark side, however.
Feb 16, 2018 · Remembering Esterka. By. Prof. Livia Bitton-Jackson - 2 Adar 5778 – February 16, 2018. 0. Share on Facebook. Tweet on Twitter ...
ESTERKE , Jewish woman from the village of Opoczno, Poland, said to have been a mistress of the Polish King *Casimir the Great (1310–1370). Reports claim that her outstanding beauty caught the king's eye while he was passing through her town. Her two sons, Pelka and Niemera, were given grants of land from their father and were raised as ...
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Heroine of a Polish and Jewish folk legend about a Jewish woman’s relationship with Casimir the Great, King of Poland (r. 1310–1370). According to the chronicle of Jan Długosz (1415–1480), Esterke was Casimir’s mistress who persuaded him to invite Jews to Poland; he also granted them extensive privileges. The story claims that the ...
Oct 7, 2015 · 3 . The first article on the topic, “Hamagaʿim beyn hasifrut hapolanit le-beyn sifrut yidiš ʿal-pi sippur esterka ve-qazimir ha-gadol melekh Polin [Contacts between Polish and Yiddish literature according to the story of Esterka and Kazimierz the Great, king of Poland],” Hasifrut 21 (1975): 60–100, includes a detailed appendix of literary works, in various languages, concerning the story.
Petr Esterka (November 14, 1935 – August 10, 2021) was a Czech-American Roman Catholic prelate. He served as the auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brno from 1999 to 2013, the Bishop for Czech Catholics in Diaspora in Canada and the United States from 1999 to 2021, and the titular bishop of Cefala from 1999 until his death in 2021.
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