# Pinsk <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Hebrew</td><td dir="rtl">פינסק</td></tr> <tr><td>Yiddish</td><td dir="rtl">פּינסק</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Pinsk (Belarusian), Pinsk (Russian), Pińsk (Polish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Brest Region, Belarus</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>52.1153 26.1031</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>c. 1320–1569</td><td>Pinsk</td><td>Grand Duchy of Lithuania</td></tr> <tr><td>1569–1793</td><td>Pińsk</td><td>Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth</td></tr> <tr><td>1793–1915</td><td>Pinsk</td><td>Russian Empire (Minsk Governorate)</td></tr> <tr><td>1921–1939</td><td>Pińsk</td><td>Second Polish Republic (Polesie Voivodeship)</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1991</td><td>Pinsk</td><td>USSR (Byelorussian SSR); German occupation 1941–1944</td></tr> <tr><td>1991–present</td><td>Pinsk</td><td>Belarus</td></tr> </table> ## Overview The Jewish community of Pinsk was chartered in 1506, when Prince Feodor Jaroslawicz granted returning Jewish families personal and religious freedom and communal autonomy. From the mid-18th century Jews made up roughly 60–90% of the town; in 1897 they numbered 21,065 (74.2%), and by 1914 about 28,063 (72.5%) — the demographic peak. Pinsk was a major center of commerce and later of Hasidism, Haskalah, and Zionism. During the Holocaust between roughly 18,000 and 30,000 of Pinsk's Jews were murdered; when the Soviets liberated the city on 14 July 1944, only 17 surviving Jews were found. <small>Sources: https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/476, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinsk, https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/pinsk/pinsk.html</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Tzvi Hirsch Isserles (b.1729)]] | Born 1729, Died 12/16/1779 | | [[Chaya Sarah (b.1825)]] | Born ~1825 | | [[Necha Horowitz (b.1868)]] | Born ~1868 | | [[Moshe Horowitz (d.1878)]] | Born | | [[Beila (2)]] | Born |