Ukraine / Eastern Galicia, Podolia, and Bukovina

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Lvov

UkraineEastern Galicia, Podolia, and Bukovina

The terrifying war against Ukraine changes, of course, the function of these pages devoted to the Jewish cultural heritage of that country. Many of the places mentioned were razed to the ground ...

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Góra Kalwaria

PolandMazovia

Jews began settling in Góra Kalwaria (Calvary Mountain) in 1795, and by a century later they had attained more than 50% of the city’s population. The Tsadik Isaac Meir Rothenberg ...

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Tokaj

HungaryCarpathian Foothills

In the seventeenth century, the Jews of Galicia and Silesia (modern-day Poland and Ukraine) were drawn to this region by trade in tokaj, a syrupy, amber-tinted wine very popular at the courts of ...