Bratslav (Ukrainian: Брацлав; Polish: Bracław; Yiddish: ברעסאָבֿ /Breslov/) is a town in the Nemyriv raion of the Vinnytsya Oblast of Ukraine, on the river Southern Bug. As of 1988, Bratslav had a population of 6,100. Yiddish (ייִדיש, Jiddisch) is a Germanic language spoken by about four million Jews throughout the world. ... See rayon for the textile made of processed cellulose. ... Vinnytsia Oblast (Ukrainian: ) is an oblast of Ukraine. ... The Southern Buh, Bug, or Boh River (Південний Буг, Pivdennyi Buh in Ukrainian; Hipanis in ancient Greek) is entirely located in Ukraine. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The first written mention of Bratslav dates back to 1362. The city was granted Magdeburg Rights in 1564. Bratslav belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania until the Lublin Union of 1569, when it became a voivodship center in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1648, during the Bohdan Khmelnytsky rebellion, Bratslav became a Cossack regimental town part of the Hetman state, which was later assimilated by Russia. In 1667, under the Treaty of Andrusiv, Russia returned the city to Poland. The city again became part of Russia after the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, along with the rest of the Right-bank Ukraine. Under Russia, Bratslav was a county center in the Podolia guberniya. As the city had no access to a railroad, its importance and population gradually declined. 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Bratslav is famous in Judaism as the place where Rabbi Nachman of Breslov taught. Rabbi Nachman was the founder of one of the major branches of Hasidism, Breslover Hasidism. Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. ... Rabbi (or Rebbe) Nachman of Breslov (1772 - 1810) was the great-grandson of Rebbe Israel, the founder of Hasidic Judaism. ... Hasidic Judaism (Hebrew: Chasidut חסידות) is a Haredi Jewish religious movement. ... Breslov is the name commonly given to a Hasidic movement which originated in the town of Bratslav in what is now Ukraine. ...

Bratslav should not be confused with Breslau (Wrocław), Břeclav or Bratislava. Wrocław, ( [:vrɔʦwaf]), German Breslau, Czech Vratislav, Latin Wratislavia; many Polish documents in English use the spelling Wroclaw) is the capital of Silesia in southwestern Poland, situated on the Oder River (Odra). ... Břeclav ( German Lundenburg) is a town in the Czech Republic, southeast of Brno. ... Bratislava (Pozsony in Hungarian; until 1919 PreÅ¡porok in Slovak and Pressburg in German (previously also the usual name in English)) is the capital of Slovakia and the countrys largest city, with a population of some 430,000. ...

External links

• Bratslav Fortress - Vinnytsya Regional Library
• The history of Jews in Bratslav - Museum of Tolerance
• Bratslav - Encyclopedia of Ukraine