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Jewish Cemetery and Ohels of the Tzaddikim (Cmentarz żydowski w Rymanowie)

ul. Kalwaria, Rymanów, Podkarpackie

Hasidim still travel from Israel and New York to a hillside above Rymanów to pray at the tomb of a rebbe who died in 1815.

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Jewish Cemetery and Ohels of the Tzaddikim (Cmentarz żydowski w Rymanowie), ul. Kalwaria, Rymanów, Podkarpackie
Jewish cemetery, Rymanów · Stanislaw Szydlo, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The story

Founded in the second half of the 16th century and covering 2.64 hectares on a slope above the town, this is among the oldest Jewish burial grounds in the region. Counts of surviving matzevot differ between sources, from about 200 stones to several hundred stones and fragments; the oldest legible one dates to 1616 and at least one is thought to predate 1600. A separate quarter holds Jewish soldiers killed in the First World War. Two ohels stand at the top of the hill: the southern covers Menachem Mendel of Rymanów (1745–1815), a disciple of Elimelech of Lizhensk and a founding figure of Galician Hasidism, buried with his wife; the northern holds his successor Zvi Hirsh Kohen (1788–1847) and Joseph Friedman. Both were destroyed in the Second World War and rebuilt afterwards. The cemetery is no longer used for burial but remains an active pilgrimage site, especially around the yahrzeits of the tzaddikim, and is administered by the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage.

Everything that was here

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The oldest legible gravestone dates from 1616.
There is a war-grave quarter for Jewish soldiers who died in Habsburg uniform in the First World War.
Zvi Hirsh Kohen began as the rebbe's servant before inheriting his position, and lies in the neighbouring ohel.

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Sanok, Podkarpackie
Second World War

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Nearby history

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Potocki Manor House (Dwór Potockich)

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The couple who bought this manor in 1872 found mineral water on their land four years later and built an entire spa town

Rymanów Market Square (Rynek w Rymanowie)

Rynek · 678 m away
A town chartered in 1376 as "Ladisslaulia" that quietly threw away the duke's name and kept its mayor's instead.

Malka's Jewish House (Żydowski dom Malki)

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One house is all that is left standing of the Jewish town that was nearly half of Rymanów.

House of Dr Ignacy Bielecki (Dom dr Ignacego Bieleckiego)

ul. Dra Bieleckiego 9 · 703 m away
An oil company built it as worker housing, went bankrupt, and sold it to the town doctor — who then practised in Rymanów

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