Irshava

Irshava (Іршава; Ilosva) is a city located in Zakarpattia Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. It was the administrative center of Irshava Raion (district) until it was abolished in 2020 and was merged with Khust Raion. Today, the population is

Names
There are several alternative names used for this city: Иршава, Иршава, Ilosva, Irschawa, Iršava, Iloșva, Irszawa, and Orsheve.

History
The Hasidic Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum (later of Satmar) lived in Irshava twice, between 1911 and 1914, and again between 1922 and 1925. He established a yeshiva there.

A local newspaper is published here since October 1946.

City since September 1982. In January 1989 the population was 9873 people.

Demographics
In 2001, population was 10,515. It included:
 * Ukrainians (98.6%)
 * Russians (0.7%)
 * Slovaks (0.3%)
 * Hungarians (0.3%)

Native language in 2001:
 * Ukrainian (97.9%)
 * Russian (1.4%)
 * Hungarian (0.4%)

Notable people

 * Ivanna Bagová (born 1993) – Slovak singer, winner of The Voice of Czecho-Slovakia
 * Rabbi Gruenberger Yaacov - active in Prague's Jewish Town Alt-neu Schul synagogue; Studied in yeshiva in Trnava, Slovakia