טערנאפאל

טאַרנאָפּאָל — ציון רבי יוסף באב"ד, בעל מנחת חינוך

Ternopil — Kever of Reb Yosef Babad, the Minchas Chinuch

No identified grave site in Ternopil. If you go, the new Jewish cemetery (Nove Okopisko) stands at the corner of Mykulynetska and Pavlova streets, Ternopil, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

• There is no identified, standing, marked kever for the Minchas Chinuch in Ternopil, and we will not pretend otherwise. Ternopil's old Jewish cemetery was vandalised in the war and finally demolished in the 1960s, with the matzevos reportedly broken up to build a road and a military airfield near the Pidvolochysk highway. Do not route a group here expecting to find his stone.
• He died in 1874, after the old cemetery had closed, so the newer ground — Nove Okopisko, opened in 1840 at the corner of Mykulynetska and Pavlova streets, opposite the Christian Mykulynetskyi cemetery — is where he would have been buried. That is an inference from the dates, not a record of his grave. About 240 gravestones survive there, and no source we could check identifies his among them.
• THE SURVIVING STONES THERE BEGIN IN 1903, TWENTY-NINE YEARS AFTER HIM. The JewishGen survey of the Mykulynetska ground records between one and five hundred matzevos still standing, most of them where they were set, and dates the earliest of them to 1903. Whatever is under that ground, his matzevah is not among what survives above it. This is the closest anyone has come to an answer and the answer is no.
• THAT SAME SURVEY MAKES THE GROUND EASY, WHICH IS NOT NOTHING. It is enclosed by a continuous fence with no gate in it, reached by turning straight off a private road, and open to all — no keyholder, no arrangement. Overgrowth is the standing problem rather than access.
• THE OLD GROUND IS ON THE CROWN OF A HILL and no stone is visible on it at all; what was taken went into roads and buildings. It was in use from the sixteenth century, and the survey warns that development around it is a serious and current threat.
• His burial in Ternopil rests on Wikipedia, dbpedia and Wikidata rather than a first-hand kever record; one genealogy site claims he died in Tzfat, which the other sources contradict.
• If Ternopil is on your route, have someone local check the new cemetery for the stone before you commit a group to the stop, and confirm anything you are told on the ground.
• TWO GROUNDS, AND THIS LISTING WILL NOT CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM. ESJF surveyed both — the old cemetery at 49.54670, 25.60059 and the newer one at 49.53771, 25.60369, about 1.0 kilometres apart. No source found says which of them holds the kever this page is about, so no single map point is published. Ask locally before setting out, and take both coordinates with you.