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Vyzhnytsia Вижниця |
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Woodcraft school in Vyzhnytsia
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 Vyzhnytsia
Vyzhnytsia
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| Coordinates: 48°15′0″N 25°11′30″E / 48.25000°N 25.19167°E | |||
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 Ukraine
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| Oblast |
 Chernivtsi Oblast
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 Vyzhnytsia Raion
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| Founded | 1158 | ||
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| • Mayor | Alex G. Chepil | ||
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| • Land | 2.7 km2 (1.0 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 356 m (1,168 ft) | ||
| Population (2015) | |||
| • Total | 4,068 | ||
| Zip Code | 59200 | ||
| Area code(s) | +380-3730 | ||
| Website | www |
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Vyzhnytsia (Ukrainian: Ви́жниця, pronounced [ˈβɪʒnɪt͡sʲɑ]; German: Wischnitza or Wiznitz, Romanian: Vijnița, Russian: Вижница, translit. Vizhnitsa, Yiddish: וויזשניץ Vizhnitz) is a town located on the Cheremosh River in Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Vyzhnytsia Raion. Population: 4,068 (2015 est.)
In Judaism the town is known as having been the original center of the Hassidic sect bearing its Yiddish name (וויזשניץ Vizhnitz). The town's Jewish community was decimated in the Holocaust and most survivors did not return, but the flourishing Vizhnitz Hassidic community in Israel and elsewhere continues to keep the name.
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