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Object Alone
Hasidic Beit Midrash in Kupiškis
Object Detail

Building Date
1880-1900?

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
After 1945, 2017

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Lithuania | Panevėžys County | Kupiškis
| 3b Lauryno Stuokos-Gucevičiaus Sq.

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Factory

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance
Part of shulhoyf

Significance Rating
1 (Local)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography
CJA & Lita documentation; Pinkas hakehilot: Lita, ed. Dov Levin (Jerusalem, 1996), p. 561, 563; Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 5 - 2004, p. 240; Lite, eds. Mendl Sudarski, Uriyah Katsenelnbogn and I. Kisin (New York, 1951), ill. on p. 1603; ill. in ww.zydai.lt/lt/content/viewitem/705/; Ephraim Oshry, The annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Judaica Press, 1995), p. 212; Hamelits 224 (14[26]-10-1899): 7; Yahadut lita, 4 vols. (Tel Aviv, 1967), vol. 3, p. 343; Lite, eds. Mendl Sudarski, Uriyah Katsenelnbogn and I. Kisin (New York, 1951), vol. 1, p. 1603

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2017

Remarks

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