Kalush (in Ukrainian Калуш; Polish Kalusz, Yiddish קאַלוש Kalush or Kalish) is a city in Southwest Ukraine incorporated in 1939. Population 63,800 (2004). Set in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, it lies near Ivano-Frankivs'k, formerly part of Austria-Hungary and Poland. Yiddish (Yid. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian: Івано-Франківськ, Ivano-Frankivsk; Станиславів, Stanyslaviv before 1962; Polish: Stanisławów; Russian: Ivano-Frankovsk; German: Stanislau (before World War I); Yiddish: סטאַניסלעװ, Stanislev) is a city in Ukraine, center of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in the west of the country. ... Austria-Hungary, also known as the Dual monarchy (or: the k. ...

From the 16th Century, there has been a strong Jewish presence in the city, but in 1941, it was "ethnically cleansed" by the Nazis. 1  (http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/pages/t036/t03687.html) (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... The term ethnic cleansing refers to various policies of forcibly removing people of another ethnic group. ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ...

It is a sister city to Little Rock, AR. 2 (http://stage.counterpart.org/communities/(2v5rh1mh2sonkg45jgzqo245)/ScopeManager.aspx?cPairID=25) This article is about partnerships between towns distant from each other; see Twin cities for the different concept of physically neighbouring cities. ... There is also a Littlerock, California. ...

• Population: 73,500 3 (http://stage.counterpart.org/communities/(2v5rh1mh2sonkg45jgzqo245)/ScopeManager.aspx?cPairID=25&currLoc=RecipientCommunityProfilePage&)
• Industries: food processing, clothing manufacture, chemicals, handicrafts, woodcarving, and concrete.
• Latitude/Longitude: 49°01′ N 24°22′ E (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=49_01_N_24_22_E_)
• Variant shtetl names: Kalish, Kalusz, Kalusz Nowy

A shtetl or shtetele (little town/city in Yiddish) was typically a small town or village with a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust Central Europe and Eastern Europe. ...

References

• Pre-WWII Jewish History in Kalush (http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kalush/)