Alternate name: Gorodok in Khmelnitskaya-oblast (Greiding, Grayding, Graydung,Graydunk (Yiddish), (Hebrew) הורודוק Horodok [Ukr] Городок, Gorodok [Rus], Gorodok-Proskurovskiy [Rus], "Gródek" [Pol]). Lat: 49°10' N, 26°34' E, 34 miles N of Kamyanets-Podilskyy, 26 miles SW of Khmelnytskyy (Proskurov), 12 miles W of Yarmolintsy. 1900 Jewish population: 3,194. [Apr 2014]
Founded in 1362. Until 1923, Gorodok was the county town if Kamenetz Podolsk province.In the 19th century. One of the major industrial and commercial centers of Podolia.
Jews settled in the township until 1630. Jewish population: 1765 - 645 Jews in 1897. - 3194 (37% of the population) in 1926 - 1745, 1939 - 2329 (29%). Most Jews were shot in Autumn 1942. .
- Kehililink
- JewishGen Ukraine SIG
- Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), II, p. 818: "Gródek" #12.
- Shtetl Finder (1980), p. 30: "Horodok", SE of Lvov.
- Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), p. 446: "Gorodok (II)".
- Jewish Roots in Russian with photos. [Apr 2014]
CEMETERY:
- photos. [Apr 2014]
- Some burials date from the beginning of the 16th century. The oldest tombstone (Hebrew matsevot date "only" from the18th century. Jewish matsevot interesting for stonework. 17th-18th centuries .Source with photos. Source with photos. [Apr 2014]
- photos.
- partial rehabilitation of graves. [Apr 2014]