ALTERNATE NAMES: KHMEL'NYTS'KYY [UKR], KHMELNITSKIY [RUS, SINCE 1954], PROSKUROV [RUS, UNTIL 1954, YID], CHMIELNICKI [POL], CHMELNITSKI, KHMELNITSKI, KHMELNITSKII, KIEMIELISZKI, KIMLISHUK, PŁOSKIRÓW, PROSKURÓW/. 49°25' N, 27°00' E, FOUNDED AS ПРОСКУРОВ (PROSKUROV); RENAMED TO KHMELNYTSKYI IN 1954.
1900 Jewish population: 11,411
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- Khurbn Proskurov; tsum ondenken fun di heylige neshomes vos zaynen umgekumen in der shreklikher shkhite, vos iz ongefirt gevoren durkh di haydamakes
(New York, 1924) - 100 evreiiskikh mestechek Ukrainy: istoricheskii putevoditel'
(Sankt-Peterburg, 1997, 2000) - KehilaLink
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- JewishGen Ukraine SIG
- Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), IX, pp. 53-57: "Proskurów".
- Shtetl Finder (1989), p. 77: "Proskurov".
- Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), pp. 1028-1029: "Proskurov"
- Wikipedia
- Khurbn Proskurov; tsum ondenken fun di heylige neshomes vos zaynen umgekumen in der shreklikher shkhite, vos iz ongefirt gevoren durkh di haydamakes
- Photos of monument to Jews killed in pogrom of 1919; photos of gravestones: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [August 2015]