Lask

Lask is a city in primary Poland with 17,604 population. It is the capital of Lask County, and is situated in Lodz Voivodeship, previously in Sieradz Voivodeship. The Polish Air Force's 30 seconds Air Base is placed nearby. The first point out in records of Lask become in 1356. It formally became a metropolis in 1422 via the law of the Polish king Wladyslaw II Jagiello. Jews commenced to settle inside the metropolis on the near of the 16^th century.

From that point ahead, the Jewish population of the metropolis averaged among 50% and 65% of the whole, normal of small shtetls of the vicinity. The primary industries have been leather-based tanning, textiles, and meals. The surnames Laski and Lasker derive from the call of the metropolis, and lots of those with the latter surname are of Jewish descent. In the second one department of Poland in 1793, the metropolis turned into part of the German Kingdom of Prussia, however in 1815 it became specific as inside Polish territory.