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Ilne? Vilna? Wilno? Vilnius?: Place Names in Yiddish
- nkurz 11y agoI was recently trying to understand how my great-grandfather came to America, and was perplexed to find census records listing him as coming from several different towns in several different countries. Eventually I realized that were all variations of Vilnius as it changed names and countries through the years: from Russian, to Poland, to Lithuania. Confusing me further were occasional references to Galicia, which I'd previously only heard of as a part of Spain. I was somehow oblivious to the former kingdom of the same name in Eastern Europe.