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Jewish community of Vilnius
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Jewish_community_of_Vilnius
GPTKB entity
Statements (36)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:Jewish_community
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
gptkb:Vilna_Jewish_community
gptkbp:founded
16th century
gptkbp:hasHistoricSite
gptkb:Vilna_Gaon_Jewish_State_Museum
gptkbp:historicalPopulation
large Ashkenazi Jewish population
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Jewish community of Vilnius
gptkbp:languageSpoken
gptkb:Hebrew
gptkb:Yiddish
gptkbp:locatedIn
gptkb:Lithuania
gptkb:Vilnius
gptkbp:memberSchool
gptkb:YIVO_Institute_for_Jewish_Research
gptkb:Jewish_Museum_of_Vilnius
gptkb:Vilna_Great_Synagogue
gptkbp:notableEvent
Vilna Ghetto established in 1941
Vilna Ghetto liquidated in 1943
gptkbp:notableFor
Jewish educational institutions
center of Jewish learning
Bundist movement activity
Haskalah movement activity
Jewish press and publishing
Jewish theater and culture
Zionist movement activity
called the Jerusalem of Lithuania
gptkbp:notablePerson
gptkb:Vilna_Gaon
gptkb:Abraham_Sutzkever
gptkb:Chaim_Grade
gptkbp:populationAfterWWII
severely reduced
gptkbp:populationBeforeWWII
about 60,000
gptkbp:religion
gptkb:Judaism
gptkbp:status
active but much smaller
gptkbp:sufferedEvent
gptkb:Holocaust
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Great_Synagogue_of_Vilna
gptkb:Obbene_Shul
gptkb:Great_Synagogue_of_Vilnius
gptkb:Vilnius_Jewish_Cemetery
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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