Homel’

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has abstract: City in southeastern Belarus on the right bank of the Sozh River. The origins of Jewish settlement in Homel’ (Rus., Gomel’; sometimes Homiyah in Jewish sources) are obscure but date after the annexation of the town to Lithuania in 1537. Contemporary chroniclers first described the town in relation to the Khmel’nyts’kyi uprising in 1648, when many wealthy Jews from Ukraine fled to Homel’ for safety. The head of the fortified town allowed peasant rioters to massacre a large number of Jews. Poles reasserted their authority in Homel’ in 1665, and in 1765 the community reported 685 Jewish families. @en
title: Homel’
alternative label: Gomel
alternative label: Homel
alternative label: Homel’
preferred label: Homel’
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