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BABRUYSK Alternate names: Babruysk and бабруйск [Bel], Bobruysk and бобруйск [Rus], Bobroisk and באברויסק [Yid], Bobrujsk [Pol], Bobruisk, Babrujsk, Babruisk. Located at 53°09' n, 29°14' e, in the Mogilev region of eastern Belarus , formerly in Bobruisk uezd, Minsk guberniya, 70 miles SW of Mogilev, 86 miles se of Minsk on the Berezina river (the name Babruysk (as well as that of the Babruyka r...
This is an umbrella project for all of the projects related to the Jews of Belarus, plus some links to closely related discussions. "Belarus was once a major center of European Jews, with 10% of the population being Jewish. But since the mid-20th century, the number of Jews has been reduced by the Holocaust, deportation, and emigration, so that today it is a very small minority of less than one...