France) and a professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS She received her PhD in history from Nanterre University and completed her “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” on denaturalization under the Vichy regime in France Her research focuses on the relationship between the history of migration and the Holocaust She has written on topics such as business and entrepreneurship and the history of persecution during the Vichy regime and Revue d’histoire française de la Shoah She is the principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator LUBARTWORLD project As the 2024-2025 Ina Levine Invitational Scholar-in-Residence "Migration and Holocaust: Transnational Trajectories of Lubartów Jews throughout the World.” The project presents a collective biography of the Jewish inhabitants of the Polish town of Lubartów from the early 1920s through the 1950s whether they emigrated or stayed behind and whether they were murdered or survived the Holocaust It combines a transnational historical perspective with a microhistorical methodology The project examines the dynamics of a social structure undergoing major disruption by studying social conditions and the consequences of a group’s destruction This also broaches the question of “who knew what” among the victims by studying how information circulated among them Her project will enable the comparison of the trajectories of all members of one group and reflect on interpersonal links and their effects on victims’ behavior The collective scope helps to interpret the post-Holocaust dislocation of social bonds and networks as well as their potential for individual and communal reconstruction for survivors Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies is a leading generator of new knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust 5 Wins / 3 Draws / 20 Losses in the Last 28 fixtures *Lewart's stats from 3 Liga Group 4 2024/25 Prediction Risk - UNLOCK This season in 3 Liga Group 4, Lewart's form is Very Poor overall with 5 wins, 3 draws, and 20 losses. This performance currently places Lewart at 0 out of 18 teams in the 3 Liga Group 4 Table Lewart's home form is very poor with the following results : 0 wins And their away form is considered very poor Lewart has scored a total of 27 goals this season in 3 Liga Group 4 More Over / Under / BTTS / Goals data are under the Goals tab More Lewart corner stats are available under the Corners tab * Average Goals Scored Per Match for Lewart in 3 Liga Group 4 2024/25 • Lewart scores a goal every 0 minutes in 3 Liga Group 4 • Lewart scores an average of 0 goals every game * Average Goals Conceded Per Match for Lewart in 3 Liga Group 4 2024/25 • Lewart has conceded a total of 67 goals this season in 3 Liga Group 4 • Lewart concedes an average of 0 goals every game Over / Under Goals are calculated from total match goals for fixtures that Lewart has participated in Over / Under 1H/2H Goals are calculated from both team's goals in that half UNLOCKCorners / Match * Average Corner Kicks per match between Lewart and their opponents in a single match Match corners is the total corners between Lewart and their opponent in the match UNLOCKCards / Match * Average Total Match Cards per match between Lewart and their opponents in a single match Match cards is the total cards between Lewart and their opponent in the match * Not all matches have goal timings recorded for Lewart Cards and Corners in these tables are total between both teams * Not all matches have goal/corner/card timings recorded for Lewart * Average Shots Per Match for Lewart in 3 Liga Group 4 2024/25 Lewart this season is taking a total of 87 shots 3.33 shots per match are on target and 3.92 shots per match are off target xG For - Lewart's xG for the 3 Liga Group 4 2024/2025 season is 1.03 xG Against - Lewart's xGA (Expected Goals Against) is 1.89 per match in the 3 Liga Group 4 * Stats from 2024/25 season of 3 Liga Group 4 *MKS Lewart Lubartów player data are not yet recorded Average AttendanceNot recorded yet or may be affected by COVID-19 Follow FootyStats on the following channels to make sure you never miss a stat * Please be aware that unauthorized individuals may be falsely claiming affiliation with FootyStats on Social Media These individuals are not associated with our company in any capacity Please verify official representatives through our website or official communication channels is not responsible for any interactions or transactions with unauthorized persons misrepresenting our organization © FootyStats - Built with Love for The Beautiful Game From air quality to sex education and corruption citizens across the country are taking on the authorities – and winning Back when Anna Gryta and Elżbieta Wąs started a local campaign to preserve a town square in south-east Poland they had no idea it would turn them into potent symbols of democratic revival But almost 10 years since their success in Lubartów the sisters have become figureheads for thousands of Poles determined to secure the clean democratic governance promised to them in the wake of the collapse of communism 30 years ago It’s a surprising revelation. Poland has become a byword for nationalist populism in recent years as the ruling Law and Justice party defies European democratic norms with its assault on the media and the courts there is a flourishing grassroots movement against the flaws in the country’s democratic culture on which the populists feed Tight groups of civic activists are notching up success after success across the country on a vast range of different issues – from sex education to air quality and the rule of law from cycle lanes and public spaces to transparency and participation in local decision-making processes Thank you for your feedback.</iframe>","caption":"Sign up here for a weekly roundup from this series emailed to your inbox every Friday","isTracking":false,"isMainMedia":false,"source":"The Guardian","sourceDomain":"theguardian.com"}">Sign up here for a weekly roundup from this series emailed to your inbox every Friday“Something is happening something has changed,” says Patryk Białas an environmental campaigner recently elected to the city council in the south-western city of Katowice In the eastern region of Podlasie, local activists recently ran a disciplined, sophisticated and ultimately successful campaign against illegal state-sanctioned logging in the Białowieża forest residents forced the closure of a toxic coking plant last year citizens are campaigning to publicise allegations of sexual abuse in the Catholic church a group of parents are running a campaign to put pressure on local authorities to combat the city’s terrible air quality Gdańsk established Poland’s first “civic panel” in order to develop policies on flood prevention in the city with 63 residents drawn at random from the local electoral register to “raise the level of civic engagement in the areas most challenging to the city” “Civil society is not about enlightened absolutism imposed from the top,” Adamowicz said at the time “It takes place through the activism of different entrepreneurs and people of different professions and ideas as well as through public disputes and conflicts where citizens apply for financing for projects that they have drawn up themselves long-entrenched local political leaders have found themselves under pressure or thrown out of office altogether by new candidates with no party-political affiliations and he had no need to consult anyone because he knew better than the rest of society “But nowadays we know that the citizens have expertise that they often know much better than their leaders politicians are learning that they need to build links with society – not to ‘manage’ the people Observers note the significance of these grassroots actions not just in the liberal opposition bastions of Poland’s larger cities a small town of just over 20,000 people in the conservative heartland of the ruling Law and Justice party Having killed off the council’s proposal to sell the town square to private developers in 2010 the following year Wąs and Gryta organised a town-wide opinion poll that forced the authorities to abandon a plan to build a waste-processing plant in a residential area near the centre of town that protesting against individual decisions was insufficient The authorities were making poor decisions because they were not consulting local residents but they did not consult them because they appeared to be under no obligation or pressure to do so; even when the sisters were able to convince the council to hold a public consultation they struggled to convince their neighbours to attend Unless this lack of engagement could be addressed leading to lack of engagement in the decision-making process leading to more poor decisions – would never be broken “We realised that it isn’t just the fault of the authorities,” says Wąs if they don’t participate in the consultation process if they are not present when the decision is made then the authorities will see no point in asking us in the first place.” ‘In Warsaw Jan Lawrynowicz and Piotr Przytula (above) set up a local activist group that uncovered digital skulduggery in which fake online accounts were used to cheerlead for local officials.’ Photograph: Maciek Nabrdalik/The GuardianThe sisters started to shift their focus their activities range from submitting freedom of information requests to a successful campaign for council sessions to be filmed and broadcast online to pushing councillors to publish more information about their views and decisions they set up a stall in the town centre where residents could peruse the election materials of all the different candidates so as to be able to hold them to their promises They also run civic engagement workshops and have an initiative monitoring and publicising whether councillors turn up to their scheduled consultation surgeries Gryta and Wąs’s relentlessness has won them awards and admirers – all at a cost Labelled as busybodies and troublemakers by their opponents they have endured a form of social ostracism from those whose jobs depend on local authorities “Many people don’t know they have the right to demand information and those that do know are often afraid to do so because the authorities often perceive it as an attack,” says Wąs A cancer survivor with a physical disability that makes driving difficult for years she has commuted to work in a different town so as not to have to rely on the authorities she has been challenging because we still don’t have a culture of discussion We will keep on drumming away because people need to know Activists argue that they are addressing fundamental flaws in Poland’s democratic transition that has facilitated the rise of populist authoritarianism Decades after the institution of free and fair elections the relationship between citizens and the authorities in many parts of Poland remains tarnished by a culture of secrecy and mutual suspicion with important decisions at local level often made with little Many fear crossing powerful local officials who oversee vast investments of European development funds and enjoy extensive networks of patronage they still don’t realise that they have the power to shape their own future These flaws in Poland’s democratic governance were overlooked by many as the economy boomed, creating jobs and a sharp rise in living standards. But as material conditions have improved, and as more and more Poles return from long spells living and working in western Europe so expectations of public institutions to deliver on the promise of western European standards of living have grown This shift in expectations was illustrated by last year’s massive environmental protests in Mielec a town of 60,000 in the south-east ringed by factories that have been accused of polluting air and waterways with toxic discharge but it seemed like there was always a closed circle of people on the border of business and politics who dominated the council,” says Mikolaj Skrzypiec who moved back to Mielec in 2010 after 10 years living in London “We could see that what was happening wasn’t right and that the government was doing nothing so we started to take photos and gathered samples for analysis by a scientist in Kraków in such a way that the evidence would be admissible in court One of the carcinogenic substances in one of the samples we found was a million times – I mean literally a million times – higher than the legally accepted level.” Public anger boiled over in March last year and 15,000 people – a quarter of the city – took to the streets the biggest environmental protest in Poland since the disaster Chernobyl organised over social media by people with no experience of campaigning really happy and proud at the number of people you could see there,” says Skrzypiec families – even employees of the factory we were protesting against Activists said that while they are focused on a wide range of different issues and operate in very different parts of the country, each with their own set of challenges, some challenges are common to all of them. The first is the difficulty in bridging the gap between citizens and officialdom – especially at the local level – in a society that remains in the shadow of communist authoritarianism even decades after the fall of communism itself. “So much of local government still works in the same way as it did in the communist era – it is a Soviet style of social relations, where officials use their patronage to keep power, where only the obedient are rewarded,” says Lawrynowicz. “The only difference is the fact that we have elections – but when the elections are over, no one listens to the citizens.” that Law and Justice’s rightwing authoritarianism has only served to electrify the grassroots democracy movement shaking Poland’s liberals and many others from their EU-induced complacency the movement’s small victories have the potential not only to transform Polish democracy for the better but also to inspire their counterparts in western Europe to take the fight to the populists in their own countries “The irony is that with Law and Justice in power people are starting to wake up to the importance of rights and functioning institutions they understand how much is left to be done,” says Batko-Tołuć a lot of our problems started to be solved and so we started to become complacent and passive Now that people see that democracy is at risk they realise how precious it is and what needs to be done to protect it I am actually very positive about what is going on in Poland.” “Maybe there is something in the Polish soul telling us to fight when we see bad things going on even if we are in a losing position,” says Przytula we won’t accept that we don’t have influence over the process.” This article is part of a series on possible solutions to some of the world’s most stubborn problems Yitshkok Leybush Peretz was born on 18 May 1852 in Zamość as the second child of Yehuda Peretz (1825–1898) but most of them hadn’t survived until adulthood sent to Gdańsk down the Vistula river The writer remembered him as a liberal the family maintained contact with the non-Jewish world The writer’s family home was deeply religious but with a certain cosmopolitan atmosphere with portraits of Napoleon III and his wife empress Eugenia on the walls According to the custom of the time Peretz received traditional religious education with a genius potential – he began to study the Torah at the age of 3, and the Gemara – at the age of 7. While studying in yeshivas in Zamość and Szczebrzeszyn (he probably hadn’t completed his education in either of them) he discovered the works of Maimonides and the kabbalists he began to learn Russian and German from private tutors who appreciated the significance of secular education wanted to send his son to gymnasium Peretz spend his youth mostly on intensive secular self-education mostly in Polish; his favourite subjects were sciences he began to fall in love with literature His greatest fascination was Heinrich Heine Probably it was the moment in which he discovered his own literary interests in the manor belonging to his Polonised family he wrote his first poems in Polish The choice of language wasn’t accidental – since the national uprising in 1863 Peretz declared himself as a Polish patriot We prayed long for success of the second uprising” anti-Semitism painfully challenged his patriotic feelings a daughter of a famous and rich maskil Gabriel Jehuda Lichtenfeld (1811–1887) Peretz wasn’t successful with his business; he lost his distillery he experienced a deep crisis of faith He gave up on his lifestyle and way of dressing he also burned his pious wife’s wig in a furnace His ex-father-in-law encouraged him to write in Hebrew he published his first volume of poems in this language but soon he had to deal with a disappointment Unable to support himself with royalties for works published in the Hebrew press Peretz gave up writing and returned to Zamość he married Helen (Nacham Rachel) Ringelhejm (1857–1938) well-read young woman from a wealthy merchant family in Łęczna He tried to open a private Hebrew school in Zamość he passed a law exam at the Regional Court in Warsaw and opened a private practice in his home town he enjoyed a relatively prosperous and peaceful life at the same time engaging himself in philanthropy and social activism Peretz was accused of spreading subversive ideas and lost the right to work as a lawyer Desperately looking for other sources of income he returned to intensive writing in a literary almanac Di judisze folks-bibliotek (Jewish Folk Library) he published his first Yiddish-language work Only Jankew Dinezon realized the greatness of the author from Zamość Both writers later became good friends for years When Peretz moved to Warsaw for good in 1889 his financial situation was still very bad Help came from a philanthropist and social activist Jan Bloch Peretz joined Bloch’s statistical expedition researching the situation of Jews in small towns Łaszczów, Tomaszów Lubelski and other places he wrote a series of fictionalized accounts published in 1891 as Bil — der fun a prowinc-rajze in tomaszower powiat um 1890 jor (Images from travels through the Tomaszów province about 1890) he became an employee of the Funeral Department of the Jewish community of Warsaw His duties involved allocation of graves at the Warsaw cemetery at Gęsia street (today at the junction of Mordechaja Anielewicza and Okopowa streets) Peretz’s life was running on two parallel tracks His duties related to writing consumed enormous amounts of time and energy The Yiddish culture didn’t yet have its own institutions or developed market of press and books Peretz had to build it all from scratch He published several literary almanacs: Di judisze blibliotek (The Jewish library Literatur un lebn (Literature and life 1895) and a series of irregularly published periodicals Jontew bletlech (Festive gazettes he published articles dedicated to economics His efforts and hard work were crowned with a conference in Chernivtsi in 1908 where Yiddish was announced a Jewish national language Even though he had to constantly take breaks in his creative work the first complete edition of his works in Yiddish was published 1904) and drama Di goldene kejt (The golden chain His work was innovative and new in his time It evaded classifications in one category remaining distinguished by „a provocative mixing of the old and the new Peretz was also engages in politics and social issues He was writing about Tsarist anti-Jewish policy during an illegal rally for striking workers he was arrested for several months in Tsarist political prison in the Warsaw Citadel Peretz became conflicted with the community leaders who demanded of him withdrawing from political activity the writer published a declaration that he signed a work contract not a contract regarding his conscience Peretz’s name became famous in the Jewish world He attracted crowds of young writers from Central and Eastern Europe to Warsaw He supported talents and introduced them into the art of writing Among the graduates of his school of literature we can find a whole array of younger generation writers: Szalom Asz While Peretz felt accomplished as a father of a great literary family his only son from his first marriage (the second son caused probably by the son’s trauma due to alienation from his mother after his parents’ divorce the conflict was deepened by Lucjan’s disapproval of everything Jewish He brought up his son Janek away from his forefathers’ traditions and culture Peretz’s grandson left the Jewish community He was actively engaged in aid work for the homeless and the hungry he was opening first shelters and schools for orphaned and abandoned Jewish children he was working on his translation of the Torah to Yiddish eventually didn’t survive the irregularity of life the history of Jewish literature became divided into two eras: before Peretz and after Subscribe Polish package printing company Pegwan has unveiled plans to set up a new production facility in the Mielecka special economic zone (MSSE) in southern Poland The firm aims to invest about PLN 7.5 million (1.8 million euros) Pegwan supplies its output to companies from the food Some of its major customers in the Polish market include the local subsidiary of Switzerland’s Nestle and local construction materials maker Kenpol Pegwan specializes in both flexo and offset printing and its current machine park consists of Heidelberg CD 74 Duo Speedmaster BASF Nyloflex Combi FI Super and Nuova Gidue M3 The company’s decision to locate its manufacturing project in a special economic zone will provide Pegwan with preferential tax treatment for its respective investment Following a decision made by the Polish government in 2013 the zones are to remain operational until 2026 The permission was awarded to Pegwan by the state-run Industrial Development Agency (Agencja Rozwoju Przemyslu) in Poland’s south-eastern region of Lubelskie Like many other small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Poland the company has been developing its capacities with the use of funds obtained from the European Union which were allocated to Poland following the country’s 2005 accession to the EU have allowed numerous Polish companies to upgrade and expand their manufacturing capacities the Lubartów-based firm was provided with co-financing of more than one million PLN (240,000 EUR) with the aim to purchase new equipment and add new products to its range The acquired amount represented more than 57 percent of the total amount of the project ‘The project allowed to purchase modern printing machines which contributed to increasing the innovativeness and competitive­ness of Pegwan,’ the company said Gain knowledge with articles and videos collated from Label Academy books Sign In Subscribe Now Become a free member today and receive top local stories right to your inbox Poland — Authorities in eastern Poland say bird flu is responsible for 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