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Полонное  Polonne [Ukr], Polonnoye [Rus], Polona [Yid], Połonne [Pol], Polna, Polonnoje, Polonna  

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Brockhaus-Efron Jewish Encyclopedia  Polonnoe (Połonne in Polish, פולנאה in Jewish documents) is one of the oldest settlements in Volyn,

which during Polish rule was part of the Volyn Voivodeship, Lutsk County. There is no exact data about the time of Jews' settlement, but by

the time of Khmelnitski the Jewish community in P. was one of the most significant Volyn communities. About 12,000 Jews wanting to save

their lives and lives of their children from Cossacks took shelter in the fortress of the city and together with Poles had been defending

themselves against Cossacks for almost two days. When the latter succeeded in entering the city, the famous mystic and Kabbalist R. Samson

of Ostropol and 300 other Jews entered the synagogue, put on shrouds and "talesim" and prayed to meet their deaths. Others perished in

their own homes without any resistance. Thus nearly 10,000 souls died at the hands of the rebels. For a long time the Jewish population of

P. could not recover from the blow, and only in 1684 the Countess Lubomirskaya, the owner of P., received a charter which allowed the Jews

"to build decent houses and constructions in the part of the town called Wola"; for a certain reward in favor of the Christian townsfolk the Jews

were released from military service "except for general military duty when the enemy advances". Further, Jews were not forbidden to trade, nor

to engage in handicrafts on payment to the shop of the usual tribute, as determined by the court. Thanks to such rights P. at the end of the

17th and at the beginning of the 18th century it was a significant trading center. In the second half of the 18th century the rabbinical post was

held by the zealot of Hasidism, Jacob Joseph Cogen; also known is the Tzaddik Aryeh-Leib, a preacher from P. (המוכיח מפולנאה). On the eve

of P.'s transition to Russia there were over 350 Jews living there. [In P. there were in the second half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth c

enturies Jewish printing houses in which mainly Hasidic works were printed.]

Now - (1906-1913) - a town (mestechko) of Volyn province, Novogradvolynsky district. According to the revision of 1847, the Polonnye Jewish

community consisted of 2,647 souls. According to the 1897 census, P. had 16,288 inhabitants, including 7,910 Jews. There is (1910) Talmud

Torah.

Любар  Lyubar [Ukr, Rus], Lieber Tov [Yid], Lubar [Pol], Liubar, Ljubar, Luber  

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Brockhaus-Efron Jewish Encyclopedia  Lyubar - In the era of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Lubar was a locality in the Volhynia

Voivodeship, Kremenets District. In 1705 the local Jew Pinchas Shmoilovich stated to the Kremenets County that when the Cossacks came

to Kremenets all the Jews and Catholics fled from Lubar taking their property; by March of 1703 only 7 Jews came back and they had to pay

"chop and shackle" starting from 1699 but they had no money. In 1765 there were 405 Jews in L. who paid the poll tax. The community was

managed by the Jews of the neighboring Novy Ostropol (62 people).

Мирополь  Miropol' [Rus], Myropil' [Ukr], Miropolye [Yid], Novyy Miropol', Novy Miropol'  

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Brockhaus-Efron Jewish Encyclopedia  Miropol - a town (mestechko) in the Volyn province, Novo-Volyn district. According to the revision of

1847 “Miropolsk. Jewish community" consisted of 865 souls. According to the 1897 census, there were 4,914 inhabitants in M., among whom

1,912 were Jews. There is (1910) Talmud Torah.

Лабунь  Yurovshchyna [Ukr, Rus], Labun [Yid], Lubin [Yid], Łabuń [Pol], Novo-Labun', Novaya Labun', Nowaja Labun, Jurovscyna,

Yurovschina  

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Brockhaus-Efron Jewish Encyclopedia  Labun - town in Volyn province., Zaslavsky district, at the river Khomor. There were 419 dwellings,

inhabited by 2,930. 5 Orthodox churches, a Roman-Catholic church, a [Jewish] synagogue and prayer houses, a school, bazaars, 4 fairs a

year. From 1795 to 1797 it was a county town.

Чартория Новая  Nova Chortoriya [Ukr], Novaya Chartoriya [Rus], Nay-Tshertriye [Yid], Chartariya Chadasha [Heb], Nova Chartoriya,

Novaya Chortoriya, Chartoriya Novaya, Czartoryja Nowa  

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Brockhaus-Efron Jewish Encyclopedia  Chartoriya Novaya  - a town in the Volyn province, Novograd-Volyn district. According to the revision

of 1847, the “Jewish community" consisted of 161 souls. According to the 1897 census, there was a total of 1,872, among them 502 Jews.

Острополь  Ostropil' [Ukr], Ostropol' [Rus], Ostropolia [Yid], Esterpolye, Osterpolye, Staryy Ostropil, Staryj Ostropil  

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Brockhaus-Efron Jewish Encyclopedia  Ostropol - in the era of the Commonwealth, the town of Volyn Voivodeship. According to legend, the

Cossacks defeated the Jews here in 1648 (see Ostropoler, Samson). O. has preserved an old wooden synagogue built in the 17th century. In

1765 there were 122 Jews (58 in O. and 64 in the new O.).

Now - (1906-13) the town of Volyn province, Novogradvolynsky district. According to the revision of 1847, the "Ostropol Jewish community"

consisted of 1,417 souls. According to the 1897 census, O. had 7,505 inhabitants, including 2,714 Jews. Available (1910): Talmud Torah and a

private primary Jewish men's school.

Романов  Romaniv [Ukr, since 2003], Dzerzhyns'k [Ukr, 1933-2003], Romanov [Rus, Yid], Dzerzhinsk [Rus, 1933-2003], Romanów Wielki

[Pol], Dsershinsk  

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Чуднов  Chudniv [Ukr], Chudnov [Rus, Yid], Cudnów [Pol], Tshidnev, Tschudnow, Tshudenov, Cudnov, Cudniv, Chudnow, Czudnow  

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Brockhaus-Efron Jewish Encyclopedia  Chudnov - in the era of the Commonwealth, a place in the Kiev province, Zhytomyr district. Jews are

found here at the beginning of the 18th century, if not earlier. In 1756, the townspeople attacked the Jews who were fleeing to Ch. because of

the peasant unrest. In 1765 in Chudn. There were 1283 Jews in the Kagale and its parishes.

Now - (1906-13) the town (mestechko) of Volyn province., Zhytomyr district. According to the revision of 1847, the "Chudnov Jewish

community" consisted of 2,623 souls. According to the 1897 census, there were 5,580, among them 4,491 Jews. There are (1910) Jewish

schools: two private women's schools, one private men's school, and a Talmud Torah.

Панинка  Poninka [Rus, Ukr, Yid], Paninka  

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Brockhaus-Efron Jewish Encyclopedia  According to the 1897 Census there were 1,025 residents in Paninka and 206 were Jews.

Янушполь  Ivanopil' [Ukr], Yanushpol' [Rus, Yid], Januszpol [Pol], Yanushpil', Januschpol, Yanispoli, Ivanpol', Ivanopol'

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