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Drohobych — Memorial at the Old Jewish Cemetery, Reb Asher II of Stolin

Drohobych · דראהאביטש

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How to get there

Old Jewish cemetery site, Drohobych, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine — confirm exact location locally

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1.Read this before you plan a stop here: the old Jewish cemetery of Drohobych was demolished during and after the war, and the ground is now largely built over by an apartment complex. There is a memorial at the site. There is no visitable kever and no standing ohel. Do not bring a group expecting one.
2.The memorial reads, in the ESJF survey's rendering, 'Among others, here are buried: Rabbi Asher the Second of Karlin, Rabbi Eliezer Drohobitch, a disciple of The Seer of Lublin' — so the memorial names a second tzaddik as well, though we could not independently pin down which R' Eliezer of Drohobych is meant.
3.The activist Meylakh Sheykhet has tentatively identified a possible ohel location in a garden patch on the site, but that identification is not settled and nothing marks it for a visitor arriving alone.
4.If you still want to daven here, arrange a local guide in advance and confirm on the ground what is actually standing before you commit the day to it.

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Closest airports

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Lviv (LWO)Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International· 61 km · 38 mi straight-line· regional
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Rzeszów (RZE)Rzeszów-Jasionka· 136 km · 85 mi straight-line· regional
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Košice (KSC)Košice International· 182 km · 113 mi straight-line· regional
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Who is buried here

Known kevarim

רבי אשר השני מקארלין־סטולין

Rabbi Asher Perlow of Stolin II

Reb Asher II of Karlin-Stolin

Asher II Perlow (1827-1873), son of R' Aharon of Karlin II, the Beis Aharon; he is the Karlin-Stolin rebbe styled both 'of Karlin' and 'of Stolin'. He is not Reb Asher I of Stolin (1760-1826), son of Reb Aharon HaGadol, who is not buried in Drohobych, and not his own son R' Yisrael the Yenuka of Stolin, who died in 1921 and is buried in Frankfurt.

Verification and source

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