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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

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Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Buchach (Buczacz). Click any to trace the idea across time and place.