דראהאביטש

אנדרטה בבית העלמין הישן בדראהאביטש — ר׳ אשר השני מסטולין

Drohobych — Memorial at the Old Jewish Cemetery, Reb Asher II of Stolin

Old Jewish cemetery site, Drohobych, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

• Read this before you plan a stop here: the old Jewish cemetery of Drohobych was demolished during and after the war, and the ground is now largely built over by an apartment complex. There is a memorial at the site. There is no visitable kever and no standing ohel. Do not bring a group expecting one.
• The memorial reads, in the ESJF survey's rendering, 'Among others, here are buried: Rabbi Asher the Second of Karlin, Rabbi Eliezer Drohobitch, a disciple of The Seer of Lublin' — so the memorial names a second tzaddik as well, though we could not independently pin down which R' Eliezer of Drohobych is meant.
• The activist Meylakh Sheykhet has tentatively identified a possible ohel location in a garden patch on the site, but that identification is not settled and nothing marks it for a visitor arriving alone.
• If you still want to daven here, arrange a local guide in advance and confirm on the ground what is actually standing before you commit the day to it.
• SURVEYED COORDINATES. The map point on this listing is the cemetery itself, measured on the ground by the ESJF survey — not a town centre. Where a kever is inside an ohel it will still need finding once you are through the gate, but the gate is now something you can navigate to.