Chmelnitzki

English

Proper noun

Chmelnitzki

  1. Alternative form of Khmelnytskyi.
    • 2024, David Golinkin, “How Should We Observe Simḥat Torah This Coming Year?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 144:
      It is clear that they did not mean the El Maleh Raḥamim prayer during the period of the Rishonim, since that prayer was only composed by Rabbi Yom-Tov Lipman Heller following the Chmelnitzki massacres of 1648-1649.