Jewish Community of Belarus

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Jewish_community
gptkbp:country gptkb:Belarus
gptkbp:culturalHeritage gptkb:Judaism
Orthodox Judaism
Litvak tradition
gptkbp:current_estimated_population 10,000–20,000
gptkbp:education Jewish schools in Minsk and other cities
gptkbp:emigratedTo large emigration to Israel, USA, and other countries
gptkbp:event gptkb:Pale_of_Settlement
gptkb:Holocaust_in_Belarus
Belarusian Jewish Congress
gptkbp:festival Jewish festivals in Minsk and other cities
gptkbp:historicalEvent Soviet repression of religious life
pogroms in 19th and early 20th centuries
gptkbp:historicalPopulation hundreds of thousands before World War II
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Jewish Community of Belarus
gptkbp:language gptkb:Hebrew
gptkb:Russian
gptkb:Yiddish
Belarusian
gptkbp:location gptkb:Belarus
gptkbp:mediaType Jewish newspapers and magazines in Belarus
gptkbp:memorial Holocaust memorials in Brest, Vitebsk, and other cities
Yama Memorial in Minsk
gptkbp:notableCity gptkb:Brest
gptkb:Grodno
gptkb:Minsk
gptkb:Pinsk
gptkb:Vitebsk
gptkbp:notableInstitution gptkb:Great_Synagogue_of_Grodno
Choral Synagogue of Minsk
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:Chaim_Weizmann
gptkb:Henri_Matisse
gptkb:Simon_Kuznets
gptkb:Menachem_Begin
gptkb:Zhores_Alferov
gptkbp:organization gptkb:Hesed_social_welfare_centers
Jewish Agency for Israel (Belarus branch)
Union of Belarusian Jewish Public Associations and Communities
gptkbp:population_after_Holocaust significantly reduced
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Judaism
gptkbp:website https://jewishbelarus.org/
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:World_Jewish_Restitution_Organization
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8