Nowy Korczyn (Neustadt)

Poland

Nowy Korczyn (Yiddish Naysthot / Neustadt), a town in southern Poland (Świętokrzyskie region), had a long-established Jewish community. It was the birthplace, in 1753, of the chasidic master Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Epstein, a disciple of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk and author of the foundational chasidic work Maor VaShemesh, who later led the chasidim of Kraków.

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