Chajka (Czajka) (d. after 14 November 1781), mistress of the Polish king Stanisław August Poniatowski.[1] She was a Pole of Jewish ancestry.[2]
She was daughter of the Jewish merchant Abramek Lwowski (Abramek of Lwów)[3] and lived in Żwaniec. In 1781, her portrait was painted by the court painter, Krzysztof Radzwiłłowski.[4] Czajka had a daughter named Elia (Ella).
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edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Satała, Zbigniew (1990). Poczet polskich królowych, księżnych i metres [A collection of Polish queens, princesses, and mistersses] (in Polish). Glob. p. 270. ISBN 9788370072575.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Schama, Simon (17 October 2017). Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900. Penguin Canada. ISBN 978-0-14-319312-8.
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