Pohrebyshcheפוהרביץ'

Podolia (Ukraine)

Pohrebyshche, a town in Podolia (today in Vinnytsia Oblast, western Ukraine), was the birthplace, in 1796, of Rabbi Yisrael Friedman, the Ruzhiner Rebbe -- a great-grandson of the Maggid of Mezeritch who founded the influential Ruzhin chasidic dynasty and, after imprisonment in Russia, re-established his court in Sadigura, Bukovina.

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