בוטשאַטש — אוהל רבי אברהם דוד ווארמאן, בעל אשל אברהם

Buchach — Ohel of Reb Avraham David Wahrman, the Eshel Avraham

Buchach (Butchatch) · בוטשאַטש

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How to get there

Jewish cemetery, Torhova Street, Buchach, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine — confirm exact location locally

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1.This is one of the better sites in Galicia. The ESJF surveyed the cemetery and fenced it in November 2018 — a metal fence on a concrete foundation along the Torhova Street side and mesh fencing on the north and east — and the survey records the ohel and tziyun of Reb Avraham David Wahrman standing on the site.
2.It is a big place: roughly three hectares running down toward the Strypa, with around two thousand gravestones, the oldest from the 1590s. Finding one ohel among them without help takes time.
3.The cemetery also holds the tziyunim of Reb Yisrael Aryeh Leib and of Rebbetzin Eydil Sarah Rachel, and Buchach itself is the town of S.Y. Agnon and of Simon Wiesenthal's family, so groups often build a longer stop here.
4.Arrange a local guide or ask the Buchach museum to walk you to the ohel, and confirm the exact spot on the ground.

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Lviv (LWO)Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International· 132 km · 82 mi straight-line· regional
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Iași (IAS)Iași International· 268 km · 167 mi straight-line· regional
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Rzeszów (RZE)Rzeszów-Jasionka· 269 km · 167 mi straight-line· regional
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Who is buried here

Known kevarim

רבי אברהם דוד ווארמאן מבוטשאַטש

Rabbi Avraham David Wahrman of Buchach

The Eshel Avraham of Buchach, the Daas Kedoshim

אשל אברהם · דעת קדושים

Yahrzeit: כ״ט תשרי · 5601 / 1840

Born 6 Adar 5531 (1771) in Nadvorna to Rabbi Asher Anshel Wahrman; a talmid of Reb Moshe Leib of Sassov and of Reb Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, he married the daughter of Reb Tzvi Hirsch Kro of Buchach, was rav of Yazlovets by the age of twenty, and succeeded his father-in-law as rav of Buchach until his petirah.

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