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Object Alone
Kloyz in the Jewish Almshouse in Vilnius
Object Detail

Building Date
1900-1925?

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker

Community

Location
Lithuania | Vilnius County | Vilnius
| 11 Pamėnkalnio St.

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Sport facility

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance

Significance Rating
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)

Bibliography
Marija Rupeikienė, Nykstantis kultūros paveldas: Lietuvos sinagogų architektūra (Vilnius, 2003), p. 105; Rupeikienė, Marija, A Disappearing Heritage: The Synagogue Architecture of Lithuania (Vilnius: E. Karpavičius Publishers, 2008), 145; Leyzer Ran, Yerushalaim delita (New York, 1974), vol. 1, p. 104, ill. on p. 114, 141; Nijolė Lukšionytė-Tolvaišienė, “Buildings in Vilnius,” in: Alfredas Jomantas, Jewish Cultural Heritage in Lithuania (Vilnius, 2006), p. 73; Ha-melits 118 (17[29]-09-1886): 1498; Grossman, Yidishe vilne, 95, ill. on p. 93; Israel Klausner, Vilna – yerushalaim de-lita: dorot rishonim, 1495-1881 (Jerusalem, 1988), p. 394; Idem, Vilna: dorot aharonim, 634-635; Genrikh Agranovskii & Irina Guzenberg, Litovskii Ierusalim. Kratkii putevoditel' po pamiatnym mestam evreiskoi istorii i kul'tury v Vilniuse (Vilnius, 1992), p. 39; Vilna: A Jewish Community in Times of Glory and in Time of Destruction, YIVO Exhibition Catalogue (New York, 1960), p. 20, no. 160; ill. facade in Jewish National Library, Jerusalem, Archives and Manuscripts Division, V.384/21; Genrikh Agranovskii and Irina Guzenberg, Vilnius: 100 Memorable Sites of Jewish History and Culture (Vilnius, third revised edition, 2008), p. 23
Cohen-Mushlin, Aliza, Sergey Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin, Giedrė Mickūnaitė, Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė (eds.), Synagogues in Lithuania. A Catalogue, 2 vols. (Vilnius: VIlnius Academy of Art Press, 2010-12)

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2009

Remarks

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