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Berezhany

Name in English: 
Berezhany
Name in Ukrainian: 
Бережани
Name in Polish: 
Brzeżany
Name in German: 
Bereschany
Name in Russian: 
Бережаны
Name in Hebrew: 
בריזאן
Name in Yiddish: 
ברעזשאן
Historical-cultural region: 
Eastern Galicia
Coordinates: 
49°27' N - 24°56' E
Administrative History: 
Years State Province District
Till 1772 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Kingdom of Poland Rus Voivodship (Województwo ruskie)  
1772-1867 Hapsburg Empire, since 1804 - Austrian Empire Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (Königreich Galizien und Lodomerien)  Bezirk Berezhany
1867-1914 Austro-Hungarian Monarchy

Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (Königreich Galizien und Lodomerien)

  Bezirk Berezhany
1914-1915 Under Russian occupation General-Government Galitsiia  
1915-1918 Austro-Hungarian Monarchy Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (Königreich Galizien und Lodomerien)  Berezhany Powiat
1918 - May 1919 West-Ukrainian People's Republic    
May 1919 - September 1939 Republic of Poland Tarnopol wojewódstwo  Berezhany powiat
 
September 1939 - June 1941 USSR: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Tarnopol oblast'  
June 1941 - July 1944 Under German occupation:  

General Government (Das Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete)

 Distrikt Galizien  
1944-91 USSR: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Tarnopol oblast'  Berezhanskyi raion
Since 1991 Republic of Ukraine Tarnopol oblast'  Berezhanskyi raion
Population Data: 
Year Total Jews Percentage of Jews
 1563  ?  5 families  -
 1670  500 families  Ca. 100 families  -
 1764  ?  1,297  -
 1880  10,899  4,712  43.2%
 1890  11,221  4,695  41.8%
 1900  11,443  4,395  38.4%
 1910  12,717  4,582  36%
 1921  10,083  3,582  35.5%
 1931  ?  3,670  -
 Ca. 1939  Ca. 13,000  ?  -
 Ca. 1998  Ca. 18,000  ?  -

Berezhany on Wikipedia.

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Berezhany on Virtual Shtetel.

See more pictures of Berezhany in the Gallery.

 

Berezhany is a town in Ternopil Oblast. It is situated ca. 80 km. south-east of Lviv, ca. 50 km. west of Ternopil and ca. 60 km. north of Ivano-Frankivsk.

The town of Berezhany was founded in 1530 by the magnate Mikołaj Sieniawski, who bought and fortified a village which had existed in that place since the second half of the fourteenth century. In the same year the town was granted a Magdeburg law city charter. The earliest Jewish presence there dates to the mid-sixteenth century. The local Jewish community was founded in 1638.  (Slovnik, Vol. 1, p. 417; Pinkas Hakehilot - Polin, vol. 2, pp. 107-108).

External links: 
JewishGen

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The Great Synagogue Buildings
Berezhany Gallery
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Brzezany Galizien - 1914 Maps
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