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Object Alone
Beit Midrash in Linkuva
Object Detail

Building Date
1890

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1959

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Lithuania | Šiauliai County | Linkuva
| 2 Ugniagesių St.

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

Significance Rating
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography

Marija Rupeikienė, Nykstantis kultūros paveldas: Lietuvos sinagogų architektūra (Vilnius, 2003), p. 141;

Pinkas hakehilot: Lita, ed. Dov Levin (Jerusalem, 1996), p. 361;

Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 5 - 2004, p. 293;

Y.D.Kamzon, Yahadut lita: tmunot vetziyunim (Jerusalem, 1959), ill. on p. 171;

Yad Va-Shem Archives - archives of images №48864, №45912;

Y.D.Kamzon, Yahadut lita: tmunot vetziyunim (Jerusalem, 1959), vol. 3, p. 322;

Hamelits, no. 9, 12[24]-01-1898, p. 6 - from Alex Valdman


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)

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photograph Date
2008

Remarks

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