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<p>migrating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persondata" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Persondata">Persondata</a> to Wikidata, <a href="/index.php?title=Toollabs:kasparbot/persondata/&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Toollabs:kasparbot/persondata/ (page does not exist)">please help</a>, see <a href="/index.php?title=Toollabs:kasparbot/persondata/challenge.php/article/Abraham_Prochownik&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Toollabs:kasparbot/persondata/challenge.php/article/Abraham Prochownik (page does not exist)">challenges for this article</a></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Abraham Prochownik''' was a [[Jew]] said, in some legendary sources, to have been nominated [[King of Poland|prince of Poland]], in 842 CE{{ref|1}}. After the death of Prince [[Popiel]], the Poles allegedly held a council at [[Kruszwica]], to elect a successor. According to the legend they disagreed for a long time, and finally decided that the person who first entered the city on the following morning should be their ruler. This was none other than the Jew Abraham the Powder-maker (prochownik), who was escorted to the council-hall and proclaimed prince of Poland. Abraham declined the honour and insisted upon their electing the wise Pole [[Piast]], who became the founder of the [[Piast dynasty]] (compare the similar legend concerning [[Saul Wahl]]). A choice of king by lot or chance encounter is found in many folk-tales.<br /> <br /> [[D.M. Dunlop]] and other scholars explored the possibility that Abraham was a historical person, either an exiled [[Khazar]] prince or a Khazar nobleman appointed over the western Slavs to collect tribute.<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> #{{note|1}} Krauscher i.42; Sternberg 4.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> *[[D.M. Dunlop|Dunlop, Douglas M.]]. ''The History of the Jewish Khazars,'' Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1954.<br /> *Hundert, Gershon David. &quot;Jewish Poland: Legends of Origin, Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles by Haya Bar-Itzhak&quot; ''The Jewish Quarterly Review,'' New Ser., Vol. 92, No. 1/2 (Jul. - Oct., 2001), pp.&amp;nbsp;222–226<br /> *Kraushar, A. ''Historya Zydów w Polsce''<br /> *Sternberg. ''Gesch. der Juden in Polen''<br /> <br /> {{JewishEncyclopedia|url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=A&amp;artid=552|article=Abraham Prochownik}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Prochownik, Abraham}}<br /> [[Category:Jewish Polish history]]<br /> [[Category:Khazars]]<br /> <br /> {{Jewish-hist-stub}}</div>

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