Стрий Stryj, Стрийський район, Львівська область, Україна
| Latitude | 49°15′N |
| Longitude | 23°51′E |
| City | Стрий Stryj |
| County | Стрийський район |
| State/ Province | Львівська область |
| Country | Україна |
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Stryj Стрий is located in Western Ukraine Україна, formerly Eastern Galicia, about 65 kilometers south of Lviv.
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In the 16th century, more than twenty towns in Poland obtained the privilegia de non tolerandis Judaeis, including:
* Miedzyrzec in 1520
* Warsaw in 1525
* Sambor in 1542
* Grodek in 1550
* Vilna in 1551
* Bydgoszcz in 1556
* Stryj in 1567
* Biez, Krosno and Tarnogrod 1569
* Pilzno in 1577
* Drohobycz in 1578
* Mikolajow in 1596
* Checiny in 1597
In practice, this ban was inconsistently observed. In other locations, separate suburbs, "Jewish towns", were formed, including:
* Lublin
* Piotrkow
* Bydgoszcz
* Drohobycz
* Sambor
Jews fought for and won the revocation of those discriminatory regulations, including:
* Stryj
* Tarnogrod
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In 1660, the first synagogue in Stryj was built.
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In 1772, after Poland was partitioned, Stryj became part of the Austrian Empire, at which time there were about 440 Jewish families in the town and suburbs.
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After World War I, Stryj became part of the area that was the free and sovereign Poland.
Web Links
| Type | Link/ Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Web Home | Стрий (місто), з Вікіпедії (Українська) |
| 2 | Web Home | Stryj (miasto), in Wikipedia (Polski) |
| 3 | Web Home | Stryi, from Wikipedia |