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Synagogue and Beit Midrash in Lazdijai
Object Detail

Building Date
1830s

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1953-1958

Architect/ Maker

Community

Location
Lithuania | Alytus County | Lazdijai
| 6 Vilniaus St.

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..

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2006

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