Liubar

Synagogue of the town (around 1912/1914).

A Jewish community lived here since centuries.[2] A wooden synagogue was erected in 1491. It was destroyed during pogroms perpetrated by the cossacks in the middle of the 17th century.

In 1793 - 1917 it was a town in Novograd-Volynsky Uyezd in Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire.

At the end of the 19th century, the Jewish inhabitants represent 43% of the total population. 9 synagogues, a Jewish theater, a Jewish hospital and many shops are own by member of the community. In 1920, the soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Army (a formation of the Red Army) perpetrated a pogrom killing about 60 people and hurting 180.[3]

A local newspaper is published here since August 1931.[4]

On July 6, 1941, Wehrmacht occupied this town. Germans sent the Jews into a ghetto. In August 1941, mass executions killed around 300 people in the nearby forest. On September, around 1 300 Jews from the city and surroundings villages are murdered by an Einsatzgruppen including Ukrainians Hilfspolizei.[5]

In January 1989 the population was 2656 people[6]

In January 2013 the population was 2179 people.[7]