GLINYANY (Pol. Gliniany; Yid. Gline), small town in Lvov
district, Ukraine. An organized Jewish community existed from
1474. The first settlers were leaseholders. The Jews of Glinyany
suffered during the Tatar raids and Cossack massacres in 1624,
1638, and 1657, and particularly in 1648–49 (see *Chmielnicki).
The first synagogue, built of wood, was erected there in 1704.
Glinyany was a stronghold of the Shabbateans and later of the
Frankists (see Jacob *Frank); in 1758 King Augustus III assigned
Glinyany to the latter as one of their places of residence
before baptism. In the 18th century Glinyany became a center of
Ḥasidism when R. Jehiel Michael Moskovich (great grandson of
Jeciel Michael of Zloczow) established his court there. A
Jewish-German school in Glinyany, established under Joseph II
after Austrian annexation of Galicia, remained open until 1806.
A public school in the name of Baron Hirsch existed there from
1816 to 1914, and among the teachers was the historian Meir
Balaban. The center of Zionist a