Vyzhnytsia

Vyzhnytsia (Вижниця) (Vijnița, Vișnița, Wischnitza, Wiznitz, Wischnitz, Wyschnyzja, Вижница) is a town in Vyzhnytsia Rayon, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine on the Cheremosh River. It is the administrative center of Vyzhnytsia Rayon.

In Judaism the town is known as having been the original center of the Hassidic sect bearing its Yiddish name (וויזשניץ Vizhnitz). The town's Jewish community was decimated in the Holocaust and most survivors did not return, but the flourishing Vizhnitz Hassidic community in Israel and elsewhere continues to keep the name.

Notable natives and residents

 * Josef Burg, writer
 * Gerard Ciołek, architect
 * Menachem Mendel Hager, first Vizhnitser Rebbe
 * Nazariy Yaremchuk, singer
 * Otto Preminger, director
 * Dol Dauber, musician
 * Meir Just, Dutch rabbi

Nearby towns

 * Kuty
 * Kosiv