Yiddish אלטקאנסטאנטין Hebrew קונסטנטין ישן
Старо́, translated as Staro, the first part of the town name in Russian, means 'old' - which is reflected in the Hebrew (Yashan) and Yiddish (Olt) language names for the town. Many Jewish immigrants to the U.S. referred to the town as Old Constantine.
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Built in the seventeenth century, the synagogue was famous for its architecture and acoustics. Learn the story of the Torah from the synagogue rescued during the Holocaust
Under Russian rule in 1900, about 9,200 Jews resided in Starokostyantyniv, which was sixty percent of the town's total population
Starokostiantyniv today is a city in the Khmelnytskyi Raion (District) of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast (Region) of western Ukraine (since the independence of Ukraine in 1991).
This KehilaLinks site honors the memory of our ancestors from Starokostyantyniv. Contributions of family stories and photos, descriptions of genealogy sources and successes and other information that adds to our understanding and the legacy of Jewish Starokostyantyniv are welcome. If you have material to share, please contact smeisel@JewishGen.org.
Header Photo of the Great Synagogue of Starokostyantyniv adapted from Wikimedia Commons