Daŭhinava is a village in the Vileyka Raion

Vileyka Raion

Vileyka Raion is a second-level administrative subdivision of Belarus in the north-west of Minsk Voblast. Its capital is the town of Vileyka....

, Minsk Voblast, Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

. It is located 51 miles north of Minsk, 25 miles ENE of Vilejka. Between the two World Wars it was part of Poland.

Jewish life in Daŭhinava

There were 1,194 Jews in Daŭhinava in 1847, 2,559 in 1897 out of a total population of 3,551 (based on statistical analysis of the 1897 All Russia Census, for the Vileyka district town of Dolginovo), 2,259 in 1900 and 1,747 in 1921 (out of 2,671). See the Dolhinow yizkor book for additional information. Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman was born in Daŭhinava, and his cousin Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky

Yaakov Kamenetsky

Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky , was a prominent rosh yeshiva, posek and Talmudist in the post-World War II American Jewish community....

grew up in the town.