Błażowa

Błażowa
Coat of arms
Błażowa
Coordinates: 49°54′N 22°6′E / 49.9°N 22.1°E / 49.9; 22.1
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Subcarpathian
County	Rzeszów
Gmina	Błażowa
Established	1435
Town rights	1770
Government
• Mayor	Stanisław Najda
Area
• Total	4.23 km2 (1.63 sq mi)
Population (2006)
• Total	2,110
• Density	500/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	36-030
Area code(s)	+48 17
Car plates	RZE
Website	http://www.blazowa.itl.pl

Błażowa [bwaˈʐɔva] (Bluzhov) - town in Rzeszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland, with a population of 2,121 inhabitants (02.06.2009).^[1]

History

Jews in Błażowa

In Yiddish Błażowa is Bluzhev (or Bluzhov).

Two young Jewish boys circa 1930 from Błażowa (Bluzhov) dressed in their best clothes (perhaps for a wedding or the Sabbath). Unknown photographer. Subjects unknown almost certainly perished in the Holocaust

Hasidic dynasty:

• Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Spira of Bluzhov (1841–1924), the famed Bluzhover Rebbe who was also called the Tzvi Latzaddik
• Israel Spira

External links

• Official website

References

Notes

Coordinates: 49°53′N 22°06′E / 49.883°N 22.1°E / 49.883; 22.1

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