Synagogue and Beit Midrash in Lazdijai
Object Detail
Building Date
1830s
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction Dates
1953-1958
Style
Unknown|
Material/Technique
Construction Material
Brick
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Condition
Present Usage
House of Culture
Present Usage Details
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
There is a legend, which tells that the building site for the beit midrash was chosen by a holy man from Vilnius who came to Lazdijai to visit another holy man named Aleksander Ziskind.
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. 352;
Hamelitz, no. 133, 20.6(2.7).1888, p. 1407;
Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 5 - 2004, p. 261;
Hatsfira, no. 227, 6(18).10.1887, p. 3;
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. 61..
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography
Photograph Copyright
“Synagogues in Lithuania: A Catalogue” Archives
Photographer
Photograph Date
2006
Remarks
0 Coordinates: 54.232792, 23.518881