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Zhvanets

Zhvanets (Ukrainian: Жванець) is a village (a selo) in Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion (district) of Khmelnytskyi Oblast in Western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Zhvanets rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] The village's population was 1,529 as of the 2001 Ukrainian census.[2]

Zhvanets
Жванець
Village
Flag of Zhvanets
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Coat of arms of Zhvanets
Coat of arms
Zhvanets is located in Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Zhvanets
Zhvanets
Zhvanets is located in Ukraine
Zhvanets
Zhvanets
Coordinates: 48°33′00″N 26°29′15″E / 48.55000°N 26.48750°E / 48.55000; 26.48750
Country Ukraine
OblastKhmelnytskyi Oblast
RaionKamianets-Podilskyi Raion
HromadaZhvanets rural hromada
Area
 • Total2.995 km2 (1.156 sq mi)
Population
 (2001)
 • Total1,529
 • Density510/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
32365
Area code+380 3849
Website[1]

History

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Zhvanets was first mentioned in 1431, when the knight Svychko (or Svichka) received this settlement from King Władysław II Jagiełło.

In the 15th century, the Zhvanetsky Castle was built, which was repeatedly rebuilt in the 16th and 17th centuries and was significantly destroyed during the 20th century.

In 1620, the Turks and Tatars invaded Podillya having destroyed the fortress. The following year, 40,000 troops led by a Ukrainian Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny joined Zhvanets and took part in the Khotyn War.

In 1646, King Władysław IV Vasa granted Zhvanets the Magdeburg rights.

In the autumn of 1653, the troops of Jan II Casimir and Bohdan Khmelnytskyi met near the city during Khmelnytskyi Uprising resulting in the Siege of Zhvanets.

Notable people

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  • Corinne Chochem (1905-1990), Jewish American choreographer, , born in Zhvanets
  • Dov Karmi (1905–1962), architect in British Mandate Palestine and Israel, born in Zhvanets
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    Joseph Israel Halpern (1910)
    Jacob "the Sharp" Halpern (1698-1738), rabbi of Zhvanets and author of many unprinted books. Despite scholastic fame and an 1893 public appeal,[3] his manuscripts (including Beit Yaakov and Megillat Yuhasin) languished in the Odessa home of Joseph Israel Halpern (1840-1928) and have since been lost. Formerly rabbi of Pomoriany, whence he composed a responsum in 1721. His father Tobiah Jehiel Michel Halpern had been rabbi of Belz. His wife was Fradl and his sons included Zeev Halpern and Solomon Isaac Halpern, rabbi of Ternopil.[4][5][6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Жванецкая громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. ^ (in Ukrainian) Zhvanets
  3. ^ בלינסון, משה אליעזר (1893). ילקוט משפחות: ... א' אגרת יוחסין למשפחת אלכסנדראוו עם איזה בתי אבות ממשפחות ... תומארקין, פרומקין, קאזארנווער, פריידעש ... (in Hebrew). דפוס מ"א בעלינסאן.
  4. ^ Eisenstadt, Israel Tobiah (1898). Daʻat ḳedoshim: kolel zikhronot le-toldot ha-mishpaḥot ... ha-mityaḥaśot ... li-ḳedoshim she-masru nafsham ... bi-gezerat ʻalilat dam ... be-Rozinai bi-Medinat Liṭa ... 1659 (in Hebrew). Bi-defus Bermann ṿe-shutafo.
  5. ^ Scholem, Gershom (March 31, 1961). "The Historical Image of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov". Yiddisher Kemfer (in Yiddish). 42 (1401). Note that this article has been reprinted in Hebrew many times.
  6. ^ בלינסון, משה אליעזר (1901). שלמי אמוני ישראל: קובץ מאמרים לספרות לשוננו הקדושה (in Hebrew). דפוס איסאקאוויטש ובעלינסאן.
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