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What Has the Battle of Vienna Given Us?

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}}</ref> the association between King John III and the bagel is not entirely unfounded, if not as romantic as the legend would have it. As it happens, the saviour of Vienna was the first king of Poland who did not confirm a privilege, first issued by King John Albert in 1496, which gave the Cracovian guild of bakers (Christian only) a monopoly for baking wheat-flour bread and ''obwarzanki''. What it meant is that Jewish bakers could finally bake their bagels legally and sell them openly to both Jewish and Christian customers. No wonder the Yiddish phrase in ''meylekh Sabetskis yorn'' (literally, "in King Sobieski's time") is synonymous to "good old days".
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[[File:{{#setmainimage:Building 19 Sobieski bagels.png}}|thumb|center|300px|From a commercial leaflet of the Building #19 discount store chain]]
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