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Riga
Capital of Latvia. Founded at the beginning of the thirteenth century, Riga was a member of the Hanseatic League. Jewish merchants became active in the city from the mid-sixteenth century, although opposition from local …
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Sandomierz
Town in the Świętokrzyskie province on the Vistula River, and one of the oldest Jewish communities in Little Poland. In the period of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sandomierz (Yid., Tsuzmir) played an important rol…
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Tallinn
(Ger., Reval; Rus., Revel, later Tallin), historical capital of the Province of Estonia. Christianized in 1219 by Danish crusaders and then a member of the Hanseatic League, Tallinn was under Swedish rule from 1561 to 17…
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Tartu
(Ger., Dorpat; Rus., Derpt, also Yurev [1893–1917]), Estonian city in the province of Livonia (Ger., Livland; Rus., Lifliandiia). Tartu has traditionally been an educational and cultural center, and after 1917 it was the…
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Ukraine
Although Jews have had a long history in ethnolinguistically Ukrainian territory, by the turn of the twenty-first century only a small remnant of this once commanding population remained. In 2001, Ukraine had a populatio…
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Zhovkva
ЖОВКВА (в 1951—91 — Нестеров), город (с 1603), районный центр в Львовской обл. (Украина). Изв. с 1368. В 16—18 вв. — в Русском воеводстве в составе Речи Посполитой. В 19 — нач. 20 в. — г. Жолква, центр повета в провинции…
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Łomża
LOMZHA, eine Stadt in der Woiwodschaft Podlaskie (Republik Polen). Main im 11. Jahrhundert. In den 16-18 Jahrhunderten. - in der Woiwodschaft Podlaskie als Teil des polnisch-litauischen Commonwealth. In den Jahren 1795-1…
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לודז'
(Yid., Lodzh), Polish city and industrial center about 100 km west of Warsaw. From a hamlet of 767 people, including 259 Jews, in 1820, Łódź grew over the next century to a city of 670,000, with a Jewish community of mor…
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ראדום
City in the Mazovia province of southeast Poland, established in about 1350. A reference to a “Jewish” street in the town comes from documents dated 1567. In 1724, a Jew was accused of blasphemy and burned at the stake, …
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Alba Iulia
Town in the central western area of Romania, on the Mureş River. Alba Iulia (known in German as Karlsburg; Ladino as Carlisburg; Latin as Alba Carolina [or Apulum in ancient Roman times]; and Hungarian as Gyulafehérvár) …
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Alexandria
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Altona
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Alytus
ALITUS, Stadt, regionales Zentrum (Republik Litauen). Izv. aus dem 14. Jahrhundert In den 16-18 Jahrhunderten. - in der Woiwodschaft Trok als Teil des Commonwealth. 1795-1807 - West. Teil Armeniens war Teil Preußens, 180…
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Augsburg
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Baku
БАКУ, город, столица Азербайджанской Республики. Изв. с 3 в. н. э. С 12 в. — центр гос-ва Ширван, позднее — в составе Персии, с 1747 — центр Бакинского ханства, в 1806 занят рус. войсками. С 1813 — в составе Рос. империи…
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Barmen
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Berdichev
БЕРДИЧЕВ, город, районный центр в Житомирской обл. (Украина). Изв. с 15 в. как с. Бердичиково. В 16—18 вв. — в Брацлавском воеводстве в составе Речи Посполитой. С 1793 — в составе Рос. империи, в Волынской губ., в 1844—4…
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Boskovice
Town in Moravia in today’s Czech Republic. Boskovice (Ger., Boskowitz) is one of the oldest Jewish communities in Moravia; a Hebrew tombstone from 1069 and a court document dated 1243 attest to the early presence of Jews…
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Breslau
Capital city of the province of Lower Silesia, in Poland. The first reference to Jews in the vicinity of Wrocław (Lat., Vratislavia; Ger., Breslau; Czech, Vratislav) dates to before 1153; the next citation is from the be…
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Brooklyn
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