The Choral Synagogue of Vilnius (Lithuanian: Vilniaus choralinė sinagoga), officially, Taharat Ha-Kodesh Choral Synagogue in Vilnius, is an Orthodox Jewish...
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Choral Synagogue may refer to: Choral Synagogue (Brest) Great Choral Synagogue (Riga) Kaunas Synagogue (Kaunas) Choral Synagogue (Vilnius) Choral Temple...
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antisemitic backlash, leading to threats against the Choral Synagogue, Vilnius's only remaining synagogue, along with the Jewish community headquarters, both...
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Kharkiv Choral Synagogue Choral Synagogue of Drohobych Great Synagogue of Grodno Vilnius Choral Synagogue of Vilnius Kaunas Choral Synagogue of Kaunas Templul...
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Vilna Gaon (redirect from Gaon of Vilnius)
Rabbenu Eliyahu": "Our great teacher Elijah"; Sialiec, April 23, 1720 – Vilnius October 9, 1797), was a Lithuanian Jewish Talmudist, halakhist, kabbalist...
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Synagogue, officially, the Great City Synagogue in Vilna, also the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, is a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue...
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in Vilnius, in the Vilnius County of Lithuania. Located on a site donated by Zavel Peisakhovich, where once stood a wooden synagogue, the synagogue was...
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The Vilnius Kenesa (Lithuanian: Vilniaus kenesa) is a Qaraite Jewish congregation and synagogue, or kenesa, located at 6 Liubarto Street, in Žvėrynas...
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Kaunas Synagogue, also known as the Choral Ohel Yaakov Synagogue (Lithuanian: Kauno choralinė sinagoga), is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located...
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Vilna Ghetto (redirect from Vilnius Ghetto)
Jewish ghetto established and operated by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius in the modern country of Lithuania, at the time part of the Nazi-administered...
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within the USSR (approx. 8,500), the number of escapees from the Kaunas and Vilnius ghettos, (1,500–2,000), as well as the number of survivors in the concentration...
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Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė, Jurgita, eds. (2012). Synagogues in Lithuania. A Catalogue, 2 vols. Vilnius: VIlnius Academy of Art Press. pp. 75–77. v t e...
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independent state and stated his claims to the heritage of the Rus'. A Vilnius panegyric in Khmelnytsky's honour (1650–1651) explained it: "While in Poland...
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founded by Gintaras Rinkevičius, performs in Vilnius. Choral music is popular in Lithuania, and Vilnius has three choir laureates (Brevis, Jauna Muzika...
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Shaif Synagogue (Zliten) Lithuania: Great Synagogue of Vilnius, Choral Synagogue (Vilnius), Kaunas Synagogue (Kaunas) Luxembourg: Canal Synagogue, Great...
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memoir of a Holocaust survivor. – New York, 1999. Beiles, Yudel. Judke. – Vilnius, 2002. Ganor, Solly. Light one candle: a survivor's tale from Lithuania...
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Current Kaunas Synagogue Choral Synagogue (Vilnius) Vilnius Kenesa Former...
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groups of 20-25 students, studying in various batai medrashim ("small synagogues") led by the rosh yeshivas. During the early years of World War II, Elya...
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The Jonava Synagogue of Merchants (Lithuanian: Jonavos pirklių sinagoga) is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 28 Klaipėdos Street...
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The Synagogue of Čekiškė (Lithuanian: Čekiškės sinagoga) is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 16 Ateities Street, in Čekiškė, in the...
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Trakai Kenesa (category European synagogue stubs)
former Qaraite Jewish congregation and synagogue, or kenesa, located at 30 Karaimų Street, in Trakai, in the Vilnius County of Lithuania. Designed in the...
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Ponary massacre (category Vilnius in World War II)
today's Vilnius, Lithuania. 70,000 Jews were murdered at Ponary, along with up to 2,000 Poles, 8,000 Soviet POWs, most of them from nearby Vilnius, and its...
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The Red Synagogue of Jonava (Lithuanian: Jonavos raudonoji sinagoga), also Beit Knesset Hagadol (Lithuanian: Jonavos Beit Knesset Hagadol sinagoga), was...
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United Partisan Organization which attempted to start an uprising in the Vilnius Ghetto in Lithuania and later engaged in sabotage and guerrilla operations...
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The Red Synagogue of Joniškis (Lithuanian: Joniškio Raudonoji sinagoga) is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 4a Miesto Square, in...
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The White Synagogue of Joniškis (Lithuanian: Joniškio Baltoji sinagoga) is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 4a Miesto Square, in...
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102, or 3% of the Russian population. 1903 – The Choral Synagogue is opened in Vilnius. The synagogue was largely influenced and led by the Haskalah. 1914...
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The Beit Medrash Hagadol Synagogue (Lithuanian: Beit Midrash Hagadol sinagoga), also known as the White Synagogue of Jonava (Lithuanian: Jonavos Baltoji...
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Torah ark (redirect from Ark (synagogue))
1903 Choral Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania The ark of the early 20th century Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel Ark of the Grande synagogue de la...
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total population. Vilnius alone had a Jewish community of nearly 100,000, about 45% of the city's total population with over 110 synagogues and 10 yeshivot...
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