Radun (Radin)

Radin

The Chofetz Chaim's town - Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan's yeshiva and home (d. 1933).

Modern locality anchor

Radun (Radin)

Belarus · Town · 54.0°N 25.0°E

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Where is Radun (Radin)?

Land geometry: Natural Earth 1:50m via world-atlas. Pins mark modern localities or representative regional anchors stored on Atlas place records, not historical borders and not reconstructed positions. · Sources & methods

THE COMMUNITY TIMELINE · EVERY NODE DATED

What happened to the Jewish community of Radun (Radin)?

1869–1933

Chofetz Chaim era (1869-1933)

This section addresses destruction and loss. It is one chapter, not the whole story — continue to what survives and what was created after

1941–1944

Shoah destruction

Today

Memorial site; the Chofetz Chaim legacy continues worldwide.

LANGUAGES & COMMUNITY

What did Radun (Radin) sound like?

Yiddish (ייִדיש)Hebrew (עברית, Ivrit)

Yiddish (ייִדיש) is a language with its own grammar, literature, and history — not “broken” anything, and not a dialect of Hebrew.

AFTER · IN FULL COLOR

What survives today?

In Radun (Radin)

Memorial site; the Chofetz Chaim legacy continues worldwide.

Chofetz Chaim house/yeshiva site
historic site · historic site

KEEP GOING

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SOURCES & REVIEW

Communities Database
JewishGen · open source
YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research / Yale University Press · 2010 · open source

Reviewed 2026-07-30

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