Sadhora

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Sadhora (Ukrainian: Садгора; Polish: Sadagóra; Romanian: Sădăgura; Yiddish: סאדיגורא Sadigora, also Sadiger) is now a microraion of Chernivtsi city, which is located 6km from the city center. Previously, it was an independent town.

1 History
2 Jewish history
3 Geography
4 References
5 People
6 External link

[edit] History

During the Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army in Moldavia and Wallachia took measures to enhance the economic and monetary system in the principalities. Therefore, a mint was established in Sadagora by the adventurer baron Nicolaus Gartenberg, "Gartenberg" being a literal German translation of the Slavic Sadagóra, "garden mountain." Beginning in 1771, the coins that were minted at Sadhora displayed the coats of arms of both Moldavia and Wallachia on the same side.

[edit] Jewish history

Main article: Sadigura (Hasidic dynasty)

The Hasidic synagogue in Sadhora.

Interior of the Hasidic synagogue in Sadhora.

Sadagóra is important in the history of for the Hasidic Judaism. It had a significant Jewish community. The Sadigura dynasty is a notable Hasidic dynasty. It is one of the branches of the Ruzhiner dynasty. The dynasty began with Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov Friedman of Sadigura, who was a son of the Rabbi Yisroel Friedman of Ruzhin, the founder of the Ruzhiner dynasty.

Rabbi Yisroel Friedman the Ruzhiner Rebbe, moved to Sadagóra in 1842. In 1838 he had been accused of complicity in the death of two Jews accused of being informers and was imprisoned for two years by the Russian authorities. On his release he moved to Kishinev, then to Iaşi and other places before finally settling in Sadigora, Bukovina in 1842.

Palace of the Sadigura Rebbe in Sadhora.

There he re-established his court in all its glory. In 1847 his wife Sarah passed away and he remarried Malka, the widow of Rabbi Hersh of Rimanov. On the 3rd of Cheshvan 1851 the Rebbe of Rizhin departed this world and was buried in Sadigora. His six sons all established Hasidic dynasties, which includes: Sadigura, Boyan, Chortkov, Husyatin and Bohush.

Rabbi Mordechai Sholom Yosef Friedman of Sadigura, (1897-1979), in the streets of Pshemishl.

Most of the Jews living in Sadhora during World War II were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Today, Sadigura Hasidism is centered around the present Sadigurer Rebbe's beis medrash in Bnei Brak, Israel.