Medzhybizh (Ukrainian: Меджибіж; Polish: Międzybóż; German: Medschybisch; Yiddish: מעזשביזש, romanized: Mezhbizh), formerly Mezhybozhe, is a rural settlement in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, western Ukraine. It is located in Khmelnytskyi Raion, 25 kilometres from Khmelnytskyi on the main highway between Khmelnytskyi and Vinnytsia at the confluence of the Southern Buh and Buzhok rivers. Medzhybizh was once a prominent town in the former Podolia Province. Its name is derived from "mezhbuzhye", which means "between the Buzhenka (and the Buh) Rivers". It is known as the birthplace of the Jewish Hasidic mystical religious movement. Medzhybizh hosts the administration of Medzhybizh settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Current population: 1,237 (2022 estimate);[2] 1,731, (2001 census).
^"Меджибожская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
^Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
the shtetl (Jewish village) of Medzhybizh and people, mostly from the spiritual elite, came to listen to him. Medzhybizh became the seat of the movement...
Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh (1753–1811), was a grandson of the Baal Shem Tov. Reb Boruch (known in his childhood as Reb Boruch'l, a Yiddish diminutive,...
worker. By the 1740s, it is verified that he relocated to the town of Medzhybizh and became recognized and popular in Podolia and beyond. It is well attested...
transcribed from various Yiddish dialects) is the name of the town of Medzhybizh in the present Ukraine which is significant as both the source of a Hasidic...
in Mezhirichi (in Volhynia), which moved the centre of Hasidism from Medzhybizh (in Podolia), where he focused his attention on raising a close circle...
Synagogue of the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidism, in Medzhybizh (Ukraine). It gave a new phase to Jewish mysticism, seeking its popularisation through...
the Hasidic predecessor. Examples cited of this type include Boruch of Medzhybizh who was the grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism. The...
largest synagogue in the Iberian Peninsula The Baal Shem Tov's shul in Medzhybizh, Ukraine (c. 1915), destroyed and recently rebuilt The Cymbalista Synagogue...
(Lubart's Castle) and few intact portions of the Lower Castle Medzhybizh Castle in Medzhybizh The ruins of Mangup, near Sevastopol Mykulyntsi Castle in Mykulyntsi...
Hasidic movement, through both the Baal Shem Tov's grandson Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh, founder of the Mezhbizh Hasidic dynasty, as well as patrilineally through...
Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine. It belongs to Medzhybizh settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population of...
vicinity of the Granite-steppe lands of Bug landscape park. Southern Bug in Medzhybizh Historical map of the confluence of the rivers Southern Bug and Dnieper...
named "Podolians". (probably Podhalanie). National costume of Podolia (Medzhybizh) Podolyans from the fair, painting by Juliusz Kossak, 1864 Podolyans,...
Boruch Israel Dyner (1903–1979), Belgian–Israeli chess master Boruch of Medzhybizh (1753–1811), the first major "rebbe" of the Hasidic movement to hold court...
the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was established along with Medzhybizh Raion, both of which compromise Letychiv Raion's current territorial boundaries...
town which was then Międzybóż in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, now Medzhybizh in Ukraine. At first, he refused his role of carrying on his familial...
Josef Berdyczewski was born in 1865 in the town of Medzhibozh (today Medzhybizh) in Podolia Governorate, to a family of Hasidic Rabbis. His father was...
of Korets Ruins of the Czartoryski Palace in Wołczyn (1898) Castle of Medzhybizh Ruins of the Castle of Berezhany Ruins of the Castle of Klevan Czartoryska...
Moshe Chaim Ephraim, also known as Ephraim of Sudilkov, was born in Medzhybizh, Poland 1748 and died there on the 17th of Iyar in 1800. He was best known...
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