Rohatyn
Years | State | Province | District |
Till 1772 | Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Kingdom of Poland |
Rus Voivodship (Województwo ruskie) |
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1772-1867 | "Hapsburg Empire", since 1804 - Austrian Empire |
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (Königreich Galizien und Lodomerien) |
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1867-1914 | Austro-Hungarian Monarchy |
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (Königreich Galizien und Lodomerien) |
Rohatyn, Galicia |
1914-1915 | Under Russian occupation | General-Government Galitsiia | |
1915-1918 | Austro-Hungarian Monarchy |
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (Königreich Galizien und Lodomerien) |
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1918 - May 1919 | West-Ukrainian People's Republic | ||
May 1919 - September 1939 | Republic of Poland | Stanislawów wojewódstwo | Rohatyn powiat |
September 1939 - June 1941 | USSR: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic | Stanislav 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 | Stanislavov (Stanislaviv) oblast'; since 1962 renamed Ivano-Frankovsk (Ivano-Frankivs'k) oblast' | |
Since 1991 | Republic of Ukraine | Ivano-Frankivs'k oblast' | Rohatynsky район |
Year | Total | Jews | Percentage of Jews |
1765 | ? | 797 | - |
1810 | ? | 1,216 | |
1880 | 5,101 | 3,035 | 59.4% |
1890 | 7,188 | 3,503 | 48.7% |
1910 | 7,664 | 3,254 | 42.4% |
1921 | 5,736 | 2,223 | 38.7% |
1931 | ? | 3,002 | |
1990 | 9,300 | ||
2001 | 8,800 |
Rohatyn is a city located on the Gnilya Lipa River in western Ukraine (103 km. from Ivano-Frankivsk). The city has railway station. Rohatyn is an interesting and relatively well preserved town. Several tombstones are extant in the old Jewish cemetery, while the new cemetery is completely destroyed.
The photographs made by Dr. Vladimir Levin in April and August 2009, see at the Gallery Section
About more headstone fragments from Jewish cemetry discovered recently in Rohatyn see at the site of Jewish Heritage Europe
Items relevant to the community
Title |
Type of item![]() |
Years |
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Tombstone of Moshe Domb | Tombstones | 1914 |
Tombstone of Yosef Son of Yaakov | Tombstones | |
Tombstone of David Yosef Son of Yehuda Arie | Tombstones | 1891 |
זכרון זמר: זמירות מנגינות רוהאטין | Bibliography | 1973 |
קהילת רוהאטין והסביבה: עיר בחייה ובכליונה | Bibliography | 1962 |
Ezena Zwilling | People | 1860 to 1939 |
Moshe Domb | People | to 1914 |
Samuel Berger | People | to 1941 |
Shlomo Langner | People | 1880 |
Jakub Ettinger | People | to 1941 |