Kleszczele


Kleszczele is a town in Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland. Prior to 1999, it was in Białystok Voivodeship.

Demography

The most spoken languages in Kleszczele according to the Russian Imperial Census of 1897:
LanguagePopulationProportion
Ukrainian108754.00 %
Jewish71035.27 %
Russian1145.66 %
Polish914.52 %
German110.55 %
Total2013100.00 %

Notable residents

The Yiddish playwright Peretz Hirschbein was born in Kleszczele in 1881.