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Hasidic synagogue in Žasliai
Object Detail

Building Date
1908

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker

Community

Location
Lithuania | Kaunas County | Žasliai
| 40 Vytauto St.

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Educational Institution

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

CJA & Lita documentation;

Marija Rupeikienė, Nykstantis kultūros paveldas: Lietuvos sinagogų architektūra (Vilnius, 2003), p. 129 ill. 109b;

Pinkas hakehilot: Lita, ed. Dov Levin (Jerusalem, 1996), p. 283, 285;

Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 4 - 2000, p. 438;


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)

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. 59..

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Photograph Date
2007

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