Rozdol

Location

• Rozdol is located at coordinates 4928N 2404E, in East Galicia.
• This area was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, later the eastern

part of Poland and today Western Ukraine.
• See a small map(165 km from west to east) of the Rozdol region.
• See a larger map (265 km from west to east) of the whole Rozdol area.

History

• General
• Census records 1801, 1819, 1826
• Population figures -  1880-1931
• Rozdol's rabbinic leaders
• During the Holocaust

Pictures etc.

• Trip report (with photos)
• The synagogue of Rozdol and a street scene (watercolors, courtesy of the Sir Isaac and Lady Wolfson Museum, Jerusalem)
• Photograph of the old synagogue, with a crowd of people in front
• Rozdol plaque in the Chamber of the Holocaust (Martef Hashoah) on Mt. Zion
• Rozdol sections in New York cemeteries:

           Mt. Zion Cemetery
           Mt. Hebron Cemetery

Genealogical Research Sources

• IAJGS Cemetery Project report on Rozdol cemetery
• List of names appearing in Rozdol birth records 1829-1868 (best as we can read them)
 

1829-1847

1848-1855

1856-1858

1859-1860

1861-1862

1863-1864

1865-1868

• Rozdol businesses, from 1891 Galician Directory
• Rozdol mentions in Meorei Galicia, by Rabbi Meir Wunder

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• Gesher Galicia Home Page (SIG)

For further reading

• Pinkas Kehillot (Poland B), published by Yad VaShem (in Hebrew)
• Encyclopedia Judaica, volume 14, page 359
• "On the Roads and the Roadsides"  (Baderachim Uvetzidei Haderachim)

by Dr. Natan Grinboim (in Hebrew) - chapter 4