Khorol
Encyclopedia
Khorol is a city in Poltava Oblast
, Ukraine
. Population is 14,753 (2001). Notable natives of Khorol include Ben-Zion Dinur
and Aryeh Dvoretzky
.
Poltava Oblast
Poltava Oblast is an oblast of central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava.Other important cities within the oblast include: Komsomolsk, Kremenchuk, Lubny and Myrhorod.-Geography:...
, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
. Population is 14,753 (2001). Notable natives of Khorol include Ben-Zion Dinur
Ben-Zion Dinur
-Biography:Dinaburg was born in 1884 in Khorol in the Russian Empire . He received his education in Lithuanian yeshivot. He studied under Shimon Shkop in the Telz Yeshiva, and became interested in the Haskalah through Rosh Yeshiva Eliezer Gordon's polemics. In 1898 he moved to the Slabodka yeshiva...
and Aryeh Dvoretzky
Aryeh Dvoretzky
Aryeh Dvoretzky was a Russian-born Israeli mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics. He is best known for his work in functional analysis, statistics and probability.-Biography:...
.