Nemyriv

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City in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine

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::summary City in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine ::

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Field	Value
official_name	Nemyriv
native_name	Немирів
native_name_lang	uk
settlement_type	City
nickname	Peace Island City
image_skyline	File:P1080846 Немирівський палац.jpg
image_caption	Scherbatova Palace
image_shield	Coats of arms of Nemyriv.svg
image_flag	Flag of Nemyriv.svg
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	Oblast
subdivision_name1	Vinnytsia Oblast
subdivision_type2	Raion
subdivision_name2	Vinnytsia Raion
established_title	First mentioned
established_date	1506
established_title1	Magdeburg rights
established_date1	1581
established_title2	City Status
established_date2	28 August 1985
pushpin_map	Ukraine Vinnytsia Oblast#Ukraine
pushpin_label_position
pushpin_map_caption	Location of Nemyriv
pushpin_relief	1
coordinates
area_total_km2	10.923
population_as_of	2022
population_footnotes
population_total	11421
population_density_km2	auto
leader_title	Mayor
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	22800-22805
area_code_type	Area code
area_code	+380 4331
website
subdivision_type3	Hromada
subdivision_name3	Nemyriv urban hromada
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Nemyriv is one of the oldest cities in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. It was founded by Prince Nemyr in 1390. It is a minor industrial center.

The distiller company that produces Ukrainian Nemiroff (Russian spelling) vodka is located in Nemyriv.

The town's tourist attractions include a late 19th-century palace (which belonged to the House of Potocki) and a park complex.

History

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Nemyriv was built on the site of ancient Scythian settlement Myriv, destroyed during the Mongol invasion of Rus'. The settlement was re-established at the end of the 14th century and the first written mention of the city under its modern name in 1506.

Nemyriv ultimately derives from the Slavic given name Niemir. It was a private town of Poland, owned by the families of Zbaraski and Potocki. Polish King Stanisław August Poniatowski visited the Potocki Palace.

Notable events of Cossack wars took place in the town through 17th century and the city was captured by Andrii Abazyn between 1702 and 1704.

In 1737, an abortive congress was held in Nemyriv, aimed at the conclusion of peace between the emperors of Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Turkey, and bringing an end to the Russo-Turkish War of 1735–39.

Jewish history of the city

Before World War II, Nemyriv had a large Jewish community. During the Khmelnytsky Uprising a massacre of Jews took place in Nemyriv. The town fell to the Cossacks on 10 June 1648, and the non-Jewish townspeople betrayed the Jews to the Cossacks. The massacre was significant enough to Polish-Lithuanian Jewry that the Council of Four Lands marked the Jewish date of the massacre, 20 Sivan, as a day of remembrance for all the dead from the Khmelnytsky Uprising. The Hasidic Rabbi Jacob Joseph of Polonne was appointed as rabbi in Nemyriv after he left Rashkov, during the 3rd quarter of the 18th century. By the 19th century it had become one of the centers of Breslov Hasidism, being the birthplace and home of Nathan of Breslov ("Reb Noson"), the foremost disciple and scribe of rebbe Nachman of Breslov. After Nachman's death in 1810, Reb Noson moved to Bratslav to disseminate and publish his teachings from there. The city acted as a center of Jewish studies and linked with several Rabbi, such as Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller and Jehiel Michel ben Eliezer. Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller once chief Rabbi of Vienna and Prague was the Chief Rabbi of Nemyriv from 1631 to 1634.

By September 1941, the Germans kept the Jews of the city prisoners in a ghetto, where they were put to work, constructing the road from Nemyriv to Haisyn. On November 24, 1941, an Einsatzgruppen massacred 2,680 Jews in pits in the Polish cemetery. On June 26, 1942, the ghetto was liquidated. The Jews were driven into the synagogue, where 200 to 300 young and strong men and women were selected and sent to a labor camp. The rest, perhaps as many as 500, were shot behind the Polish cemetery in pits that had been dug in advance.

Gallery

File:Немирів костел 2012.jpg|St. Joseph Catholic Church File:Парковий фасад Палацу княгині М.Щербатової в Немирові P1080902-1.jpg|Scherbatova Palace in Nemyriv File:Комплекс Немирівської гімназії. Чоловічий корпус, Немирів вул. Луначарського,27.JPG|Nemyriv gymnasium File:Електростанція та млин DSCF3277.JPG|Old mill File:Миколаївський монастир P1090056.jpg|Nicholas monastery

Notable people

Nathan of Breslov, rabbi
Nikolay Nekrasov, poet
Marko Vovchok, writer
Theodosius Dobzhansky, geneticist
Mordechai Namir, Israeli politician
Ida Rhodes (birth name Hadassah Itzkowitz) was born in a Jewish village between Nemyriv and Tulchyn.
Yosyf Semashko, Uniate and Orthodox hierarch
Liubov Hakkebush, stage actress, teacher and translator.

References

[http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages\A\B\AbazynAndrii.htm Encyclopedia of Ukraine]
Teller, Adam. (2020). "Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century". Princeton University Press.
Teller, Adam. (2020). "Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century". Princeton University Press.
Dresner, Samuel H. (Rabbi). ''The Zaddik: The Doctrine of the Zaddik according to the Writings of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef of Polnoy'', Shocken Books, 1974.{{ISBN. 0-8052-0437-7 p. 50 (mention of his stay in Nemirov).
[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/298968/Jacob-Joseph-of-Polonnoye Encyclopædia Britannica]
[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=N&artid=184 Jewish Encyclopedia.com]
"Yahad - in Unum".

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