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Object Alone
Great Beit Midrash in Kėdainiai
Object Detail

Building Date
1857

Synagogue active dates
Until WWII

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Lithuania | Kaunas County | Kėdainiai
| 12 Senosios Rinkos Sq.

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Museum

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style
Interior layout is partially preserved.

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance
Part of synagogue compound (shulhoyf)

Significance Rating
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography

Marija Rupeikienė, "Synagogues of Lithuania," in Lithuanian Synagogues (Exhibition Catalogue) (Vilnius: The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, 1997) p. 30;

Pinkas hakehilot: Lita, ed. Dov Levin (Jerusalem, 1996) p. 583;

Y.D.Kamzon, Yahadut lita: tmunot vetziyunim (Jerusalem, 1959), ills. on p. 133;

www.zydai.lt/lt/content/viewitem/704/;

Yad Va-Shem Archives - archives of images, №65195 (shulhoyf), №45475 (shulhoyf), №47420;

Hamelits, no. 110, 21.5(2.6).1898, p. 5 - from Alex Valdman;

Rimantas Žirgulis, “Kėdainiai Jewish Community and Its Heritage,” in: Alfredas Jomantas (ed.), Jewish Cultural Heritage in Lithuania (Vilnius, 2006) (= R. Žirgulis, "Kėdainių žydų bendruomenė ir jos paveldas," in: Alfredas Jomantas (ed.), Žydų kultūros paveldas Lietuvoje (Vilnius: Savastis, 2005).), p. 242;

Keidan: sefer zikaron, ed. Yosef Khrust (Tel Aviv, 1977), pp. 33, 105-108, ill. after p. 104;

I. Ptashkin, “Mestechko Keidany” [Townlet Keidany], in Pamiatnaia knizhka Kovenskoi gubernii na 1899 god [Kovno province reference book for 1899] (Kovna, 1898), p. 71;

Yaakov Halevi Lipshits, Zikhron Yaakov, vol. 2 (Kaunas, 1927), vol. 2, p. 56


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)

Rupeikienė, Marija, Nykstantis kultūros paveldas: Lietuvos sinagogų architektūra (Vilnius, 2003), p. 66 ill. 42a.

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
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Biography

Photograph Date
2007

Remarks

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