Chajka

Chajka (Czajka) (d. after 14 November 1781), mistress of the Polish king Stanisław August Poniatowski.[1] She was a Pole of Jewish ancestry.[2]

Chajka

She was daughter of the Jewish merchant Abramek Lwowski (Abramek of Lwów)[3] and lived in Żwaniec. In 1781, she was painted by Krzysztof Radzwiłłowski. Czajka had a daughter named Elia (Ella).

See also

Sources
  1. Wasylewski, Stanisław. "NA DWORZE KRÓLA STASIA – WYDAWCA. Portal Rynku Wydawniczego". wydawca.com.pl. Retrieved 3 February 2019. concubines such as the singer Tomatisowa, primadonna Bonafini, the Malczewska model, Czajka Jewish, and many other ill-born beings, noticed in the Castle by diarists.
  2. Satała, Zbigniew (1990). Poczet polskich królowych, księżnych i metres [A collection of Polish queens, princesses, and mistersses] (in Polish). Glob. p. 270. ISBN 9788370072575.
  3. Hundert, Gershon David (16 August 2006). Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity. University of California Press. p. 5. ISBN 9780520249943.


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