Feast of Trumpets is an 1884 painting by Aleksander Gierymski, held by the
National Museum in
Warsaw, which depicts
Ashkenazi Jewish men on the bank of the
Vistula in the same city, performing tashlikh. It is an atonement ritual performed on
Rosh Hashanah, or Jewish New Year, in which one's sins are symbolically cast into naturally-flowing water. Prior to the
Holocaust, Poland was home to about three million Jews and a
long-time important center of Jewish religious and cultural life.
A panorama of the High Tatra Mountains on the Polish–Slovak border, as seen from Żabi Szczyt Niżni (
Slovak: Nižný Žabi štít, literally "Lower Frog Peak"). The High Tatras, with eleven peaks over 2,500 m above sea level, are the only alpine range in Poland. They are home to many rare and
endemic animal and plant species, as well as large predators, such as the
brown bear,
wolf,
lynx,
marten and
fox. The area is protected within two national parks: Tatrzański Park Narodowy in Poland and Tatranský národný park in Slovakia.