Jewish Community of Belarus

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Jewish_Community_of_Belarus

GPTKB entity

Statements (44)

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