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Valozhyn(Redirected from Volozhin)
Valozhyn (Belarusian: Вало́жын; Russian: Воло́жин) is a town in the Minsk voblast of Belarus, 75 km northwest of Minsk. The population is 11,500 (1995). Valozhyn is the site of the yeshiva (Talmudic seminary), theVolozhin yeshiva , founded in the early 19th century by Rabbi Chaim Volozhin and closed by the authorities in 1892. It spawned a large number of similar institutions in Belarus, Russia and Lithuania. External linksThe contents of this article are licensed from Wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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