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KOBRYN: By: Herman Rosenthal, L. Edelstein. District town in the government of Grodno, Russia; situated on the Muchavetz and Kobrynka rivers. In 1902 it contained more than 8,000 Jews in a total population of about 10,000.
Kobryn or Kobrin (Belarusian: Кобрын; Russian: Кобрин; Polish: Kobryń; Lithuanian: Kobrynas; Ukrainian: Кобринь; Yiddish: קאָברין) is a town in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Kobryn District.
The Jews of Kobrin mainly earned their livelihood from local and interurban trade with Lublin, the leasing of inns, and the collection of custom duties. During the *Chmielnicki massacres of 1648–49, some Jews suffered from the Cossacks, and a number of Jews from the Ukraine took refuge in Kobrin.
Many refugees from western Poland arrived in Kobrin, and by 1941 the Jewish population reached 8,000. On June 23, 1941, the Germans occupied Kobrin. Soon after the occupation, they established a Judenrat, instituted forced labor, and murdered about 170 Jews not far from the village of Patryki.
;District town in the government of Grodno, Russia; situated on the Muchavetz and Kobrynka rivers. In 1902 it contained more than 8,000 Jews in a total population of about 10,000. A Jewish congregation was in existence there at the beginning of the sixteenth century; it is mentioned among the
Mar 31, 2017 · The Jewish population of Brest is now estimated at 800 out of 350,000 residents, but far fewer participate in communal life. We bid farewell to Regina at half past noon and began our drive to Kobryn. The welcome sign above indicates that Kobryn dates to 1287, when it was a principality in the Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia, a successor state of ...
Rabbi Pesach Pruskin was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva in White Russia before World War II, most notably in Kobrin. He was known as one of the most brilliant Torah scholars of his time.
