Dubno

Dubno, a town in Volhynia (today in Rivne Oblast, western Ukraine), was by the eighteenth century the largest Jewish community in Volhynia -- 'Dubno the Great' (Dubno Rabbati) -- and a representative at the Council of the Four Lands. It is best known as the home of Rabbi Yaakov Kranz, the Dubno Maggid, the celebrated preacher famed for his parables, who lived there for some eighteen years.

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