CHERNIVTSI: Podolia

ALTERNATE NAMES: CHERNIVTSI [UKR], CHERNEVTSY [RUS], CHERNIVITZ [YID], CZERNIEJOWCE [POL], KLEYN-TSHERNEVITS, CERNIVCI, CERNEVŢI, CHERNEVTSI, TSCHERNEWZI, ÇERNIVTSI, Russian: Черневцы. Ukrainian: Чернівці. קליין־טשערנעוויץ Yiddish: . 48°32' N, 28°07' E, 50 miles S of Vinnitsa, 21 miles NNW of Yampil (Yampol), 16 miles ENE of Mohyliv-Podilskyy (Mogilëv-Podolskiy). Not the major city calledChernivtsi (Cernăuţi, Czernowitz), in Bukovina (former Austrian Empire).]. Jewish population: 2,274 (in 1897), 1,455 (in 1939)

• JewishGen Romania SIG
• Museum of the
  History of Polish Jews
• Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), I, pp. 831-832: "Czerniowce".
• Shtetl Finder (1980), p. 14: "Chernovitz".
• Pinkas HaKehilot, Romania, Vol. 2 (1980), p. 487: "Cernăuţi".
• Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), pp. 237-238: "Cernauti".
• Еврейская энциклопедия (1906-1913), "Черновиц, город".

CEMETERY:

Podolian Chernivtsi had a large Jewish community, The size of the cemetery is a surprise. In the center are a couple of abandoned houses - once the home of Jewish families. Source: FROM CHERNIVTSI TO CHERNIVTSI [June 2015]