Chrzanów

Name in English: 
Khzhanuv
Name in Ukrainian: 
Хшанув
Name in Polish: 
Chrzanów
Name in Hebrew: 
כשאנוב
Name in Yiddish: 
קשאנאוו (Kshanov)
Historical-cultural region: 
Western Galicia
Administrative District : 
Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Coordinates: 
50°8′N 19°24′E

Khzhanuv is located 23 miles west of Krakow in southern Poland. Jews living in Khzhanuv date back to the 16th century. By the middle of the 18th century there was an established Jewish community in Khzhanuv.

To see the Yizkor Book of Jewish Khzhanuv click here.

For the translation version click here.

Khzhanuv in the Virtual Shtetel project.