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    Medzhybizh (Ukrainian: Меджибіж; Polish: Międzybóż; German: Medschybisch; Yiddish: מעזשביזש, romanized: Mezhbizh), formerly Mezhybozhe, is a rural settlement...
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  • before 1738. Polish census records show that a certain holy man lived in Medzhybizh from 1740 to 1760, which was presumably Israel. In 1740 the census describes...
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    Medzhybizh Fortress (Ukrainian: Меджибізька фортеця) also known as Medzhybizh Castle (Ukrainian: Меджибізький замок; Polish: Zamek w Międzybożu), is situated...
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  • Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh (1753–1811), was a grandson of the Baal Shem Tov. Reb Boruch (known in his childhood as Reb Boruch'l, a Yiddish diminutive,...
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    in Mezhirichi (in Volhynia), which moved the centre of Hasidism from Medzhybizh (in Podolia), where he focused his attention on raising a close circle...
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    transcribed from various Yiddish dialects) is the name of the town of Medzhybizh in the present Ukraine which is significant as both the source of a Hasidic...
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    worker. By the 1740s, it is verified that he relocated to the town of Medzhybizh and became recognized and popular in Podolia and beyond. It is well attested...
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    was the most important of all the non-chasidic rabbinic dynasties of Medzhybizh, in Ukraine. The Rapoport dynasty traces its roots back to Rabbi Jacob...
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  • Marghita, Romania) Mattersdorf (from Mattersburg, Austria) Mezhbizh (from Medzhybizh), Ukraine; Also see Apter Rov Mishkoltz (from Miskolc, Hungary) (several)...
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    romanized: Mikhail Nikitich Krechetnikov, 1729, Moscow, Russian Empire – 9 May 1793, Medzhybizh, Podolie Vice-Royalty, Russian Empire) was a Russian military commander...
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    the Hasidic predecessor. Examples cited of this type include Boruch of Medzhybizh who was the grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism. The...
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    the Degel Machaneh Ephraim, the Apter Rav, and Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh, Medzhybizh, Ukraine Avrohom Bornsztain and his son Rabbi Shmuel Bornsztain...
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  • Boruch Israel Dyner (1903–1979), Belgian–Israeli chess master Boruch of Medzhybizh (1753–1811), the first major "rebbe" of the Hasidic movement to hold court...
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    largest synagogue in the Iberian Peninsula The Baal Shem Tov's shul in Medzhybizh, Ukraine (c. 1915), destroyed and recently rebuilt The Cymbalista Synagogue...
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    vicinity of the Granite-steppe lands of Bug landscape park. Southern Bug in Medzhybizh Historical map of the confluence of the rivers Southern Bug and Dnieper...
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    Vizhnitz. Boruch Hager was born in 1845 and was named after Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh at the behest of his grandfather, Yisroel Friedman of Ruzhyn. In 1885...
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    Kvitelach left on the grave of the Baal Shem Tov in Medzhybizh, Ukraine....
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    Hasidic movement, through both the Baal Shem Tov's grandson Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh, founder of the Mezhbizh Hasidic dynasty, as well as patrilineally through...
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    the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was established along with Medzhybizh Raion, both of which compromise Letychiv Raion's current territorial boundaries...
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  • Rebuilt synagogue of the Baal Shem Tov in Medzhybizh, Ukraine...
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    Micha Josef Berdyczewski (category People from Medzhybizh)
    Josef Berdyczewski was born in 1865 in the town of Medzhibozh (today Medzhybizh) in Podolia Governorate, to a family of Hasidic Rabbis. His father was...
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    Lower Castle Lychkivtsi Castle in Lychkivtsi, Ternopil Oblast Medzhybizh Castle in Medzhybizh Mali Zahaitsi Castle in Mali Zahaitsi, Ternopil Oblast Melnytsia-Podilska...
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  • Moshe Chaim Ephraim of Sudilkov (category People from Medzhybizh)
    Moshe Chaim Ephraim, also known as Ephraim of Sudilkov, was born in Medzhybizh, Poland 1748 and died there on the 17th of Iyar in 1800. He was best known...
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    Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle Khotyn Fortress Kyiv Fortress Lubart's Castle Medzhybizh Fortress Olesko Castle Olyka Castle Palanok Castle Pidhirtsi Castle Popov...
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    of Korets Ruins of the Czartoryski Palace in Wołczyn (1898) Castle of Medzhybizh Ruins of the Castle of Berezhany Ruins of the Castle of Klevan Czartoryska...
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    Nachman of Breslov (category People from Medzhybizh)
    town which was then Międzybóż in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, now Medzhybizh in Ukraine. At first, he refused his role of carrying on his familial...
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  • Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine. It belongs to Medzhybizh settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population of...
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    and inns. Eventually he settled down at the court of Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh, grandson of the Baal Shem Tov. The rabbi was plagued by frequent depressions...
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    (Korosten) Vozviahel (Novohrad-Volynsky) Kolodiazhen Hubyn Medjybozh (Medzhybizh) Novhorodok Valkhovyisk Rodka Mukacheve Koshytsi Sandomierz Lublin Kholm...
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    by fragments of glass, 6 others went to the hospital due to shock. The Medzhybizh Fortress was also damaged: glass, doors and the roof of the fortress were...
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