The painter whose name was erased
Jan Filipowicz was a young man forced to change his religion at a time when faith could be a matter of life and death. Unable to find his place in his new world, he tried to return to his former faith. That decision set off a chain of events that devastated many lives and ended in public executions in Lviv’s Rynok Square in 1728.
The case offers a glimpse into the beliefs and everyday life of an eighteenth-century city.
Sources
Jakób Radliński, Prawda chrześciańska od nieprzyiaciela swego Lublin, 1740
Adam Kaźmierczyk. Auto-da-fe in Lwów in 1728: The Jan Filipowicz Trial and Jewish Re-Conversion to Judaism in the Early Modern Poland. Acta Poloniae Historica, 116 (2017). DOI: 10.12775/APH.2017.116.05.
Majer Bałaban. Studia historyczne. Warszawa 1927.
The case offers a glimpse into the beliefs and everyday life of an eighteenth-century city.
Sources
Jakób Radliński, Prawda chrześciańska od nieprzyiaciela swego Lublin, 1740
Adam Kaźmierczyk. Auto-da-fe in Lwów in 1728: The Jan Filipowicz Trial and Jewish Re-Conversion to Judaism in the Early Modern Poland. Acta Poloniae Historica, 116 (2017). DOI: 10.12775/APH.2017.116.05.
Majer Bałaban. Studia historyczne. Warszawa 1927.