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Great Synagogue in Ukmergė
Object Detail

Building Date
1878

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
1953

Architect/ Maker

Community

Location
Lithuania | Vilnius County | Ukmergė
| 2 Vienuolyno St.

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Sport facility

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 synagogue compound (shulhoyf)

Significance Rating
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography

CJA documentation;

Marija Rupeikienė, Nykstantis kultūros paveldas: Lietuvos sinagogų architektūra (Vilnius, 2003), p. 68 ill. 44;

Pinkas hakehilot: Lita, ed. Dov Levin (Jerusalem, 1996) p. 242;

Y.D.Kamzon, Yahadut lita: tmunot vetziyunim (Jerusalem, 1959), ill. on p. 135;

Yad Va-Shem Archives - archives of images, №64185 (from a book);

ills. in ww.zydai.lt/lt/content/viewitem/728/;

Bill Gross collection of postcards (ext);

Hamelits, no. 5 (06[18]-02-1873), pp. 35-36;

Hamelits, no. 16 (18[30]-10-1878), p. 307;

Hamelits, no. 28 (08[20]-04-1883), p. 449;

Hatsfirah, no. 28 (13[25]-07-1877), p. 221;

LVIA, F. 378, Ap. 1, B. 1769, L. 94;

Raimundas Ramanauskas, “Žydų bendruomenė Ukmergėje” (The Jewish community in Ukmergė), in Žydų kultūros paveldas Lietuvoje (The heritage of Jewish culture in Lithuania), ed. A. Jomantas (Vilnius, 2005), p. 191-192;

Gershon David Hundert (ed. in chief), The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2008), 2 vols., ill. on p. 1070 (int, from YIVO) = Zvi Gitelman, A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present (New York, 1988), ill. on p. 57 (int).

http://www.archyvai.lt/exhibitions/zydai/e38.htm


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

Photographer
Photograph Date
2007

Remarks

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