Tluste (Tovste)

Galicia

Tluste (today Tovste, in Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine), a town in the Podolia/Galicia borderland, was where the young Israel ben Eliezer (the future Baal Shem Tov) lived and worked around 1730, in the years before he revealed himself as a chasidic master and settled in Medzhybizh.

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