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Obj. ID: 35203  Great Synagogue in Druja, Belarus

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Great Synagogue in Druja | Unknown
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1765-1766 (building), 1774/5 (Torah ark)
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1
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Custom
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Bibliography

Niunkaitė Račiūnienė, Aistė. Lietuvos žydu̜ tradicinio meno ir simboliu̜ pasaulis: Atvaizdai, vaizdiniai ir tekstai. Vilnius: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydu̜ Muziejus, 2011. - ills 57-90.

Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), pp. 350-2 with ills. and ills. 402-3646; 

Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bóżnice drewiane (Warsaw, 1957), ill. on p. 16.

Yaniv, Bracha. The Carved Wooden Torah Arks of Eastern Europe. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2017. Pp. 238-40 and figs. 45, 69, 70, 71 (Torah ark).

Bracha Yaniv, "Praising the Lord: Discovering a Song of Ascents on Carved Torah Arks in Eastern Europe," Ars Judaica 2(2006), pp. 83-102 (Druja on p. 88-92).

Likhodedov, Vladimir. Synagogues. Minsk: Riftur, 2007 - ill. 33

Dovid Katz, Lithuanian Jewish Culture (Vilnius: Baltos Lankos, 2004). - ills. on pp. 170 and 177. 

Локотко, А.И. Архитектура европейских синагог. Минск: Ураджай, 2002, pp. 78, 107-108.

Pinkas hakehilot: Polin, vol. 8: mehozot vilna, byalistok, novogrudek (Jerusalem, 2005), p. 267, ill. on p. 268.

Hamelits, no. 9,  12(24).01.1898, p. 7 - from Alex Valdman;

Jarosław Wołkonowski, Stosunki polsko-żydowskie w Wilnie i na Wileńszczyźnie, 1919-1939 (Białystok, 2004), p. 150;

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