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Zhvanets' Jewish Cemeteries (2)

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Website	:	jewua.org/zhvanets/
Coordinate	:	48.5489300, 26.4938700
Description	:	ZHVANETS: (Podolia Province) Two Jewish cemeteries exist. The town's mayor notes that the Jewish cemetery inside Zhvanets was filled in 1900 and a new cemetery started north of the town. The "new" one was forgotten since 1943 after the Jews were exterminated. Recently, the town did a survey to develop the land and found about 1,500 gravestones with Hebrew inscriptions. Now a group is organizing a project to photograph, translate and document the data for genealogical purposes. Source: Arthur Halpern; Holon, Israel. [email protected] [April 2004] Zhvanets is a town in Kamenets district of Khmelnitskiy region. The town's estimated population is 1,529... Read More	ZHVANETS: (Podolia Province) Two Jewish cemeteries exist. The town's mayor notes that the Jewish cemetery inside Zhvanets was filled in 1900 and a new cemetery started north of the town. The "new" one was forgotten since 1943 after the Jews were exterminated. Recently, the town did a survey to develop the land and found about 1,500 gravestones with Hebrew inscriptions. Now a group is organizing a project to photograph, translate and document the data for genealogical purposes. Source: Arthur Halpern; Holon, Israel. [email protected] [April 2004] Zhvanets is a town in Kamenets district of Khmelnitskiy region. The town's estimated population is 1,529 (as of 2001). It is situated on the iver Dniester 20 kilometers away from the district center. It has been a town of Kamenets district since the mid 1920s. Before Revolution it was a shtetl of Kamenets ueazd, Podolia gubernia. According to Polish Lustration of 1784, there were 617 Jews in Zhvanets. In 1765, the Jewish population of 1,134 people (1,567 in kahal district) decreased because of external events (Haydamaky and others). In 1822, all the craftsmen in the shtetl were Jewish. 127 of them worked in the workshops and 565 didn't. In 1848, the Jews were ordered to move to other shtetls because the fortress had been built in Zhvanets. The synagogue was closed by the authorities waiting for Jews to leave the village. However, it didn't happen and the Jewish community of Zhvanets had been asking the authorities to renew the synagogue for several decades. From the description of Zhvanets of 1884: The center of the shtetl forms a so called market square, a large square space surrounded by the houses which belonged to the local Jews. There are several timber-framed shops selling various goods in the square. Some Jewish women sell bread, eggs, fruit, and other foodstuffs. However, the main trade takes place in the houses which surround the square. A Jewish house is mostly built of stone, shaped as a long oblong. One of the narrow sides faces the market and serves as a facade. The gates and a covered entrance divide the house into two halves. After WWII After its liberation in 1944 a few Jewish families came back from the evacuation to Zhvanets. The Jews who were discharged from the army returned there as well. In the 1970-1980s, the most of Zhvanets Jews left for Israel and other countries. Three monuments devoted to the victims of fascism are established in Zhavanets but I haven't found any photos. At present only the remains of a synagogue and one traditional Jewish prayer house are left in Zhvanets. The local people bring the wrecks of the gravestones to Jewish cemetery which were stolen and used in the household by their ancestors: In 2015, something extraordinary happened. The Dniester River became shallow because of drought. On the outskirts of Zhvanets, near the village of Braga, several Jewish grave stones of the late 18th century were found. As there were no Jewish cemeteries in this area, these stones were attributed to one of the three old Zhvanets cemeteries. They were likely to be used for building purposes by the locals. Famous Jews from Zhvanets Iyekhezkel Rabinovich (1892, Zhvanets – ?), an essayist, an interpreter. He got traditional Jewish religious education, graduated from the gymnasium. In 1911-1914, he studied Philosophy and Law in Istanbul, then he moved to the USA. There he became an active participant of the Zionist movement. Zhvanets Jewish cemeteries Three Jewish cemeteries used to be in Zhvanets but only two of them are preserved partly in the village. About 100 gravestones of the period between 1894 and 1924 are located on the New Jewish cemetery. It locates on the western outskirst of the village on the front of Khotin castle. The earliest of the gravestones is dated back to 1729, the latest one is 1790. There are 30 gravestones on the whole. Many of them are decorated.

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Latitude: 48.5489300
Longitude: 26.4938700