יהדות גליציה ובוקובינה

העמותה לקידום מחקר וזיכרון של מורשת יהודית

בשיתוף עם:

Podhajce is a town in Ternopil Oblast, on the Koropets River, a tributary of the Dnester. It is situated ca. 105 km. south-east of Lviv, ca. 45 km. south-west of Ternopol and ca. 50 km. north-east of Ivano-Frankivsk.

A Catholic Church was founded in Podhajce in 1463. In 1539 it was granted a Magdeburg law city charter. During the second half of the sixteenth century the city was put under siege by a Tatar-Cossack army (in 1667) and conquered by the Turks (1675). In 1698 the Polish army gained near Podhajce a decisive victory over the Tatars.

The earliest evidences (namely tombstones in the local Jewish cemetery) on Jewish settlement in Podhajce date from the first half of the fifteenth century.

(Slownik, vol. 8, pp. 384-388; Pinkas Hakehilot - Polin, vol. 2, pp. 410-411).