Town in the government of Kiev, Russia. In 1897 it had a total
population of 6,068, of which 4,500 were Jews. There were 670
Jewish artisans and 71 Jewish day-laborers; of the latter 25
engaged in field-work during the harvest season. The economic
condition of the Jews there has been unfavorably affected by the
abolition of annual and weekly fairs, and in 1900 the poverty of
the population became so great that a mob of several hundred
collected at the house of the local police official and demanded
bread and the reestablishment of the fairs. The Jewish artisans
are engaged extensively in the manufacture of a new kind of
footwear, one variety of which, worn by the peasantry, is known
as "postaly," and another, worn by the more prosperous, as
"skorokhody." The 25 ḥadarim afforded instruction to 475
children, and 59 Jewish pupils attended the city school. The
Talmud Torah, founded in 1898, had 97 pupils. In 1768 Lipovetz
suffered with other Ukrainean towns from the attacks of the
Haidamacks. - Voskhod (monthly),