Lithuanian Jewish community

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

GPTKB entity

Statements (63)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:Jewish_community
gptkbp:affects	gptkb:Holocaust
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Litvaks
gptkbp:centralTo	gptkb:Vilnius gptkb:Kaunas
gptkbp:diaspora	gptkb:Israel gptkb:South_Africa gptkb:United_Kingdom gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:distinctFrom	Orthodox Judaism
gptkbp:hasHistoricSite	gptkb:Šeduva_Jewish_Memorial gptkb:Paneriai_Memorial gptkb:Vilnius_Choral_Synagogue Jewish Cemetery of Vilnius Kaunas Synagogue
gptkbp:historicalRegion	gptkb:Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Lithuanian Jewish community
gptkbp:language	gptkb:Hebrew gptkb:Yiddish
gptkbp:locatedIn	gptkb:Lithuania
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Holocaust_in_Lithuania Soviet repression Vilna Gaon’s leadership
gptkbp:notableFor	gptkb:Vilna_Gaon Talmudic scholarship
gptkbp:notableInstitution	gptkb:Mir_Yeshiva gptkb:Ponevezh_Yeshiva gptkb:Slabodka_Yeshiva gptkb:Volozhin_Yeshiva
gptkbp:notablePerson	gptkb:Aaron_Klug gptkb:Chaim_Weizmann gptkb:David_Ben-Gurion gptkb:Hermann_Minkowski gptkb:Shimon_Peres gptkb:Simon_Kuznets gptkb:Romain_Gary gptkb:Menachem_Begin gptkb:Yitzhak_Shamir gptkb:Abraham_Sutzkever gptkb:Eliezer_Ben-Yehuda gptkb:Isaac_Bashevis_Singer gptkb:Jascha_Heifetz gptkb:Chaim_Grade gptkb:Raphael_Lemkin gptkb:Yaakov_Yitzchak_Ruderman gptkb:Yitzchok_Hutner gptkb:Aharon_Kotler gptkb:Avraham_Yeshaya_Karelitz gptkb:Joseph_B._Soloveitchik gptkb:Moshe_Feinstein gptkb:Samuel_Bak gptkb:Emanuelis_Zingeris
gptkbp:notableRuler	gptkb:Chaim_Ozer_Grodzinski gptkb:Elijah_ben_Solomon_Zalman gptkb:Yisrael_Meir_Kagan
gptkbp:organization	Lithuanian Jewish Community (Lietuvos žydų bendruomenė)
gptkbp:population	about 3,000
gptkbp:populationBeforeWWII	over 200,000
gptkbp:religion	gptkb:Judaism
gptkbp:tradition	gptkb:Litvak
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Russian_Jewish_community gptkb:Toiba_Salant
gptkbp:bfsLayer	8