בראָד — ציון רבי שלמה קלוגר, המהרש"ק

Brody — Kever of Reb Shlomo Kluger, the Maharshak

Brody · בראָד

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Visitor experience

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How to get there

New Jewish cemetery, Brody, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine — confirm exact location locally

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1.We could not confirm from any source that Reb Shlomo's own matzevah is standing, legible and identified today — only that he died in Brody in 1869 and was buried there. Go with someone who can find the stone, and do not promise a group a marked kever in advance.
2.Go to the NEW Jewish cemetery, not the old one. The old cemetery was closed in the 1830s by Austrian decree and has since been demolished and built over, with no tombstones left. He died in 1869, so the new ground is where he would have been buried — but understand that this is an inference from the dates, not a sourced record of where his grave is.
3.The new cemetery is fenced and is one of the best-preserved 19th-century Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine, with several thousand carved gravestones and an ohel at the entrance — but it is large, the inscriptions are worn, and sections are overgrown.
4.Arrange with the Brody municipal museum or the Lviv Jewish community to have someone walk you to the grave, and confirm the exact spot on the ground before you bring a group.

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Lviv (LWO)Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International· 90 km · 56 mi straight-line· regional
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Lublin (LUZ)Lublin· 214 km · 133 mi straight-line· regional
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Rzeszów (RZE)Rzeszów-Jasionka· 223 km · 139 mi straight-line· regional
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Who is buried here

Known kevarim

רבי שלמה קלוגר

Rabbi Shlomo Kluger

The Maharshak, the Maggid of Brody

חכמת שלמה · האלף לך שלמה · ספר החיים

Yahrzeit: ל׳ סיון · 5629 / 1869

Son of Rabbi Yehuda Aharon, rav of Komarow; orphaned young and taken in by the Dubno Maggid, Rabbi Yaakov Kranz, who taught him and arranged his teachers, he served Brody as dayan and maggid for more than fifty years and was one of the leading poskim of his generation.

Verification and source

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