Motal
Моталь / Мотоль
Motal is located in Belarus
Motal
Motal
Location in Belarus
Coordinates: 52°08′N 25°36′E / 52.133°N 25.600°E / 52.133; 25.600
Country Belarus
RegionBrest
DistrictIvanava
SelsovietMotal Selsoviet
Government
Elevation
280.4 m (919.9 ft)
Population
 (2014)
  Total3,772 Increase
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
225822
Area code+375 1652

Motol (Belarusian: Моталь, Russian and West Polesian: Мотоль, Polish: Motol, Yiddish: מאָטעלע Motele), also Motal, is a township in Ivanava Raion of Brest Region located about 30 kilometres west of Pinsk on the Yaselda River in Belarus.

History

Founded as a royal city of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1554 by Queen Bona Sforza. A part of the Pinsk ‘ekonomia’ or royal land, in the late 18th century it was also part of the Pińsk powiat of the Brest Litovsk Voivodeship.

After the Partitions of Poland, Motal became part of the Russian Empire. It was in the Kobrinsky Uyezd of Grodno Governorate until the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917. Between World War I and World War II it was in the Drohiczyn powiat of the Polish Polesie Voivodeship. It is near the center of Polesia which constituted an irregular rectangle of roughly 180 kilometres (110 mi) from east to west and 80 km (50 mi) from north to south.

Motal was a Shtetl. In 1937, Motal had 4,297 inhabitants, of whom 1,354 were Jews. (Reinharz, 1985). During the war an Einsatzgruppen perpetrated a mass execution of the local Jewish community.[1] The Destruction of Motele (Hurban Motele) was published in Hebrew by the Council of Motele Immigrants in Jerusalem in 1956. It was edited by A.L. Poliak, Ed. Dr. Dov Yarden. The book has 87 pages and contains memoirs and events leading up to the destruction of the Jews of Motele in 1942.[2]

Anshe Motele Congregation, an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, was founded in Chicago on Sept. 3, 1903, by 14 immigrants who named it after Motel.[3]

Economics

The largest company in Motol is Agromotol.

Education

Motol has 2 secondary schools and an art school.

Notable people

Motal in literature

References

  1. "Yahad - In Unum". Yahadmap.org. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
  2. "Destruction of Motele". jewishgen.org.
  3. Grossman, Ron (22 August 2003). "Synagogue has 100-year-old roots in union". Chicago Tribune.

Sources

52°19′N 25°36′E / 52.317°N 25.600°E / 52.317; 25.600

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.