Coordinates: 51°28′N 22°36′E / 51.467°N 22.6°E / 51.467; 22.6
Lubartów [luˈbartuf] is a town in eastern Poland, with 23,000 inhabitants (2004), situated in Lublin Voivodeship. It is the capital of Lubartów County and the Lubartów Commune.
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It was established in 1543 by Piotr Firlej under a founding order issued by King Sigismund the Old. As well as being important economically, the town was a center of Protestant culture and education, following the founding of the school of Wojciech Calissius 1559. From its foundation until World War II, the town also had a large Jewish community, numbering nearly half of the population in the 1930s. However nearly the entire community was destroyed during the war.
Lubartów was a bilingual town for most of its history, Polish and Yiddish being both widely used. Polish was used among non-Jews as well as for most communication between Jewish and non-Jewish townspeople, while Yiddish was the everyday language of the town's Jewish inhabitants.
The town's original Polish name was "Lewartów" (pronounced [lɛ'vartuf]) until 1744, when it was changed to Lubartów. Yiddish, however, retains the original name "Lewartów" to this day (but pronounced ['lɛvatof]).
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