Mezhyrichi

(Velyki Mezhyrichi)

Korets District, Rivne(Rovno) Province, Ukraine

 

Here we provide just a short note on Mezhyrichi in order not to repeat other sources (see links above).

Mezhyrichi was first mentioned in 1544. It belonged to Count Korecki. who was the owner of 65 villages and 5 towns.
Magdeburg rights were granted to Mezhyrichi in 1605 (from other sources in 1590). In 1629 there were 313 houses.
Over different periods up to 1831 various noblemen (Korecki, Ostrozhski, Leschinski, Lubomirski) owned the town.
The first references to Jews date back to 1569 and 1577.
At the beginning of the 1760s, Rabbi Dov Ber ben Avraham (1704–1772), became magid (preacher) there. He attracted numerous disciples from all over Poland to his bet midrash. From 1760 for about 20 years Mezhyrichi was a center of the chasidic movement.

 

 

 

From	To	Part of
1544		First mentioned
1569	1793	Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
1793	1921	Russia
1921	1939	Poland
1939	1941	USSR
1941	1944	German occupation
1944	1991	USSR
1991		Ukraine

Year	Population	Jews	% of Jews
1784		295
1847		1808
1897	3131	2107	67%
1921	2400	1743	72.6%
1946		80
2001	2192

(Data taken from several resources)