Kamianyi Brid (UTS)
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Kamianyi Brid is a town (urban-type settlement
) in Baranivka Raion
, Zhytomyr Oblast
, Ukraine
. The population was 2,670 (as of 2001).
). A.-F. Zusman, the owner of the Kamianyi Brid faience factory, also lived in Berdichev, not far from the Tsadik's residence. In 1919, there was a horrible pogrom in Kamianyi Brid, which took lives of more than 200 Jewish men, including the local rabbi Shmuel Shvartzstein. The Jewish cemetery was founded here after pogrom as the burial place for its victims. Later this cemetery wasused as the burial place for the Jews from the neighboring village of Dovbysch. Up to nowadays, the majority of gravestones have been destroyed, and inscriptions have got unredable. The cemetery has been divided into two parts: for males and for females. Until 1917, the local Bund's branch operated here. N. A. Kiselgof, the head of a small local hospital, was one of outstanding personalities of this shtetl.He was the main organizer of working-class movement in the Kamianyi Brid. He was known in the workers' circle under a pseudonym “Naumov”. Also Haim-Lejzer Perelmuter son of Moishe-Bir Perelmiter was a remarkable person; he was born in Baranivka
and later moved to KB, where he became a member of the Bund party and an active revolutionary (finally he became the chief of the first post-office of Kamianyi Brid). Now, there is no Jews here, the faience factory has actually ceased operating. At the factory, the museum of Kamianyi Brid has been founded which now demands serious preservation works. There is a threat of destruction of the Jewish cemetery which contained about 250 Jewish monuments ( till 1935). Many inscriptions on monuments yet do not manage to be deciphered, the cemetery is in a dilapidated condition and requires urgent leaving and restoration, on what target financial assets should be allocated. Now the unique researcher of history of Kamianyi Brid is Z.Shkljar (Moscow).
Urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...
) in Baranivka Raion
Baranivka Raion
Baranivka Raion is a raion of Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at Baranivka. The raion covers an area of 1000 square kilometres and as of 2011 it had a population of 42,132 people....
, Zhytomyr Oblast
Zhytomyr Oblast
Zhytomyr Oblast is an oblast of northern Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Zhytomyr.-History:The oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on September 22, 1937....
, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
. The population was 2,670 (as of 2001).
History
The earliest known information on the Kamianyi Brid Jewish community dates from 1850s. But actually, the Zusmans' faience factory operated here since 1862, and from this moment Kamianyi Brid might be considered founded as a settlement. Three synagogues operated here for decades (including one, at the factory's territory, which was closed, to be transferred to the local club, in 1928). Local Jews were adherents of the Chernobyl chassidism. Their last Rebbe (Tsadick, or leader) was Gersh-Leib (Zvi-Arie) Tverskiy Z”L, of Berdichev / Makarov (Chernobyl (Hasidic dynasty)Chernobyl (Hasidic dynasty)
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). A.-F. Zusman, the owner of the Kamianyi Brid faience factory, also lived in Berdichev, not far from the Tsadik's residence. In 1919, there was a horrible pogrom in Kamianyi Brid, which took lives of more than 200 Jewish men, including the local rabbi Shmuel Shvartzstein. The Jewish cemetery was founded here after pogrom as the burial place for its victims. Later this cemetery wasused as the burial place for the Jews from the neighboring village of Dovbysch. Up to nowadays, the majority of gravestones have been destroyed, and inscriptions have got unredable. The cemetery has been divided into two parts: for males and for females. Until 1917, the local Bund's branch operated here. N. A. Kiselgof, the head of a small local hospital, was one of outstanding personalities of this shtetl.He was the main organizer of working-class movement in the Kamianyi Brid. He was known in the workers' circle under a pseudonym “Naumov”. Also Haim-Lejzer Perelmuter son of Moishe-Bir Perelmiter was a remarkable person; he was born in Baranivka
Baranivka
Baranivka is a town in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. The population as of 2001 is 12,584. Contained within the territory of the town, at the village Baranivka, is a geographical point of the Struve Geodetic Arc. The name, nivka, from the old Slavic language means swamp, and from eastern Slavic, ivka,...
and later moved to KB, where he became a member of the Bund party and an active revolutionary (finally he became the chief of the first post-office of Kamianyi Brid). Now, there is no Jews here, the faience factory has actually ceased operating. At the factory, the museum of Kamianyi Brid has been founded which now demands serious preservation works. There is a threat of destruction of the Jewish cemetery which contained about 250 Jewish monuments ( till 1935). Many inscriptions on monuments yet do not manage to be deciphered, the cemetery is in a dilapidated condition and requires urgent leaving and restoration, on what target financial assets should be allocated. Now the unique researcher of history of Kamianyi Brid is Z.Shkljar (Moscow).
External links
- http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/kamennyy_brod/