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Object Alone
Wooden Beit Midrash in Žiežmariai
Object Detail

Building Date
1850-1900?

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
After 1918; after 1945, 2017-2021

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Lithuania | Kaunas County | Žiežmariai
| 6 Vilniaus St.

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Timber

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Under reconstruction

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Most of the interior adornments are lost, although the wooden patera in the ceiling above the bimah and the capitals of the central pillars still exist; these elements are painted white, blue and gold. A fragment of painted frieze with a repeated stencil rose design in between a broad blue band and red doted line is traceable on the northwestern wall. 


Urban significance

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)

Bibliography

Marija Rupeikienė, "Synagogues of Lithuania," in Lithuanian Synagogues (Exhibition Catalogue) (Vilnius: The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, 1997) p. 31, ill. on p. 41;

Marija Rupeikienė, Nykstantis kultūros paveldas: Lietuvos sinagogų architektūra (Vilnius, 2003), p. 112 ill. 93;

Marija Rupeikienė, "Medinės Lietuvos sinagogos," in Alfredas Jomantas (ed.), Medinė architektūra Lietuvoje (Vilnius, 2002), pp. 71-79, p. 77 with ills at the end of the book;

Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice drewniane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1996), ill. 249;

Boris Khaimovich, "Istoriko-etnographicheskie ekspeditsii Peterburgskogo evreiskogo universiteta," in: V.A.Dymshitz (ed.), Istoriia evreev na Ukraine i v Belorussii: ekspeditsii, pamiatniki, nakhodki (=Trudy po iudaike, issue 2) (St. Petersburg, 1994), pp. 15-43, p. 33 with ill.;

Y.D.Kamzon, Yahadut lita: tmunot vetziyunim (Jerusalem, 1959), ill. on p. 69;

https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2021/06/04/lithuania-restoration-of-ziezmariai/

https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2023/04/28/lithuania-ziezmariai/


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)

Valentinas Brandišauskas, "Fate of Jewish Property in Lithuania during World War II," in Alfredas Jomantas (ed.), Jewish Cultural Heritage in Lithuania (Vilnius: Versus aureus, 2006), 20-70, here p. 59..

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2017

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