Galician Jews

Galician Jews

Home of the Rebbe in Husiatyn, Second Polish Republic
Jewish population in Galicia
1772	150,000–200,000, or 5–6.5% of the total population
1857	449,000, or 9.6% of the total population of the region.[1]
1910	872,000, or 10.9% of the total population

Galician Jews or Galitzianers (Yiddish: גאַליציאַנער, romanized: Galitsianer) are members of the subgroup of Ashkenazi Jews originating and developed in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and Bukovina from contemporary western Ukraine (Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Ternopil Oblasts) and from south-eastern Poland (Subcarpathian and Lesser Poland). Galicia proper, which was inhabited by Ruthenians, Poles and Jews, became a royal province within Austria-Hungary after the Partitions of Poland in the late 18th century. Galician Jews primarily spoke Yiddish.