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JewishGen Locality Page - Ruzhany, Belarus

Ruzhany, Belarus

	Town	District	Province	Country
Before WWI (c. 1900):	Ruzhany	Slonim	Grodno	Russian Empire
Between the wars (c. 1930):	Różana	Kossów	Polesie	Poland
After WWII (c. 1950):	Ruzhany			Soviet Union
Today (c. 2000):	Ruzhany			Belarus

Jewish Population in 1900:

3,599

Notes:

Russian/Belarusian: Ружаны. Yiddish: ראזשינאי
14 miles NW of Kossovo, 24 miles SW of Slonim, 27 miles SE of Vawkavysk (Volkovisk).

Ruzhany, Belarus: 52°52' N, 24°53' E

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Additional information for Ruzhany:

Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), p. 1101: "Rozhana".
Pinkas HaKehilot, Poland, Vol. 5 (1990), p. 315-318: "Rozana"
Shtetl Finder (1980), p. 86: "Ruzhany".
Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), IX, p. 852-853: "Różana".
JewishGen Belarus SIG
Jewish Records Indexing - Poland