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Object Alone
Kloyz at 7 Petro Avižonio St. in New Žagarė
Object Detail

Building Date
190?

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Lithuania | Šiauliai County | Žagarė
| 7 Petro Avižonio St.

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Fire Depot

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
Pinkas hakehilot: Lita, ed. Dov Levin (Jerusalem, 1996), p. 279-80; Hamelits, no. 35 (08[20]-09-1881), p. 748; Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 4 - 2000, p. 436; Y.D.Kamzon, Yahadut lita: tmunot vetziyunim (Jerusalem, 1959), ill. on p. 175; YV 51850 (int), 53802 (TA); Ephraim Oshry, The annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Judaica Press, 1995), ills. on p. 290; Aleksandr Belozorchik, “Mestechko Zhagory” [Townlet Zhagory], in Pamiatnaia knizhka Kovenskoi gubernii na 1899 god [Kovno province reference book for 1899] (Kovna, 1898), p. 40;
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
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Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
2007

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