Lithuanian Jewish community

GPTKB entity

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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