Wolf Popper Bozian

Wolf Popper Bozian was a merchant and banker in Cracow engaged in import, especially of cloth popper, from Cologne, and in financial transactions in a number of fairs which took place in several towns in Poland and Schleswig, from which businesses he became very rich. In 1620 he financed the construction of a synagogue (Popper Shul, destroyed by the Nazis) and a bet midrash.

His business success was used as an excuse for blaming the Jews for a period of commercial strife in Cracow in the second decade of the 17th century. In order to incite mob hatred the antisemite Sebastian Miczyński implicated him in a blood libel in a pamphlet entitled Zwierciadło korony polskiej (“The Mirror of the Polish Kingdom,” Cracow, 1618).