Quicknation Belarus Volozhin
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Quicknation Belarus Volozhin
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Volozhin
) is a town in the Minsk Province of Belarus. The population is 11,500 (1995). It is located at 54°5′N 26°31′E, 75 km northwest of Minsk, on Vałožynka river.
Vałožyn was the site of the i (Talmudic seminary), the Volozhin yeshiva, founded in the early 19th century by Rabbi Chaim Volozhin and closed by the authorities in 1892. It spawned a large number of similar institutions in Belarus, Russia and Lithuania. |
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