Galician Jews

Subgroup of ethnic Jews in present-day Western Ukraine Galician JewsHome of the Rebbe in Husiatyn, Second Polish RepublicJewish population in Galicia1772150,000–200,000, or 5–6.5% of the total population1857449,000, or 9.6% of the total population of the region.1910872,000, or 10.9% of the total population Galician Jews or Galitzianers (Yiddish: גאַליציאַנער, romanized: Galitsianer) are members of the subgroup of Ashkenazi Jews originating and developed in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and Bukovina from contemporary western Ukraine (Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Ternopil Oblasts) and from south-eastern Poland (Subcarpathian and Lesser Poland). Galicia proper, which was inhabited by Ruthenians, Poles and Jews, became a royal province within Austria-Hungary after the Partitions of Poland in the late 18th century. Galician Jews primarily spoke Yiddish. Demographics The Jews in Europe (1881). Galicia is located immediately northeast of the Hungarian district Peasants and Jews from Galicia, c. 1886 Population of Jews before World War II in Galicia. Largest Jewish population was in Lviv with 76,854, second was Kraków with 45,229 (Galicia Jewish Museum) In the modern