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Brisk or Brest-Litovsk, Russia (now called Brest, Belarus)
Latitude: 52.06N - Longitude: 23.42E
- Brisk is the Yiddish name for Brest-Litovsk.
- Currently Brest is part of Belarus. It is 165 km. (102 m.) NW of Pinsk and 220 km. (137 m.) S of Grodno. Brest is a major city and administrative centre of Brest province of Belarus. It is situated at the junction of the navigable river Mukhovets with the western Bug. Today it has a population of nearly 300,000. Brest is a major point of rail entry to Belarus and is a river port with light industries.
- Brest-Litovsk was the Russian name for Brest of Lithuania.
- In Russian documents it is also referred to as:
Brestye
Berestov
- The Jews from Brest called themselves Brisker.
- The Brisker Jews refer to themselves as Litvish - or litvaks which means Lithuanians. This is confusing as Brest is nowhere near modern Lithuania.
- The Brest Yizkor book is called Brisk D'lita.
- The town was also known as Brisk D'lita (Brest of Lithuania in Yiddish).
- Brest belonged to the Lithuanian dukedom from 1319 until the 16th century.
- In the 16th century Brest belonged to a Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.
- In Polish it was called Brzesc and Brzesc nad Bugiem (Brest on the River Bug). Also Brzesc-Litevski.
- It was Polish from 1919-1939.
- It has also been called
Brest-L'Tov
Brest L'Vov
Brest L'Wow
- It is recommended to read or reread the article by Dr. Sam Chani "A Town With Four Names".
- It was a major seat of Jewish learning, as well as the place where the Russians and Germans concluded the treaty that pulled Russia out of World War I, after the October Revolution. At that time, it was known as Brest-Litovsk.
- Brest was a central railway depot.
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