Buchach (Buczacz)
Galicia (Ukraine)
Buchach (Polish Buczacz, today in Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine), a town in eastern Galicia, had a vibrant Jewish community with both chasidic and maskilic currents. It was the birthplace of the rabbinic scholar Rabbi Meshulam Igra and the longtime home of Rabbi Avraham David Wahrman, who served as its rav; it was also the birthplace of the Nobel laureate Hebrew author Shmuel Yosef Agnon, who set much of his fiction there.
2 teachers · 2 works · 12 most-discussed ideas
Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
- 1860
Eshel Avraham on Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim
- 1860
Ezer MiKodesh on Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Buchach (Buczacz). Click any to trace the idea across time and place.
- Chametz (Leaven)22 passages
- Ketubah (Marriage Contract)19 passages
- Kiddushin (Betrothal / Marriage Sanctification)17 passages
- Shabbat (The Sabbath)16 passages
- Kinyan (Modes of Halachic Acquisition)13 passages
- Onah (Marital Intimacy Obligations)12 passages
- Safek Safeika (Doubt within a Doubt)12 passages
- Safek (Halachic Doubt)11 passages
- Niddah (Menstrual Purity)10 passages
- Chuppah (Wedding Canopy)10 passages
- Minhag (Custom)9 passages
- Get (Bill of Divorce)8 passages