Lithuanian Jewry

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

GPTKB entity

Statements (87)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:Jewish_community
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Litvaks
gptkbp:culturalSignificance	gptkb:Musar_movement Talmudic study Yiddish literature Jewish religious scholarship
gptkbp:diaspora	gptkb:Canada gptkb:Israel gptkb:South_Africa gptkb:United_Kingdom gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:historicalPopulation	gptkb:Belarus gptkb:Latvia gptkb:Lithuania gptkb:Poland gptkb:Ukraine
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Lithuanian Jewry
gptkbp:mainLanguage	gptkb:Yiddish
gptkbp:notableCity	gptkb:Białystok gptkb:Grodno gptkb:Minsk gptkb:Vilnius gptkb:Pinsk gptkb:Kaunas gptkb:Panevėžys gptkb:Šiauliai gptkb:Slabodka gptkb:Mir
gptkbp:notableMovement	gptkb:Haskalah gptkb:Musar_movement Orthodox Judaism
gptkbp:notablePerson	gptkb:Aaron_Klug gptkb:Chaim_Weizmann gptkb:David_Ben-Gurion gptkb:Golda_Meir gptkb:Henri_Matisse gptkb:Hermann_Minkowski gptkb:Shimon_Peres gptkb:Simon_Kuznets gptkb:Yitzhak_Rabin gptkb:Chaim_Soutine gptkb:Abba_Eban gptkb:Menachem_Begin gptkb:Moshe_Sharett gptkb:Yitzhak_Ben-Zvi gptkb:Yitzhak_Shamir gptkb:Abraham_Sutzkever gptkb:Eliezer_Ben-Yehuda gptkb:Isaac_Bashevis_Singer gptkb:Yitzchak_Elchanan_Spektor gptkb:Chaim_Soloveitchik gptkb:Jacob_Gordin gptkb:Yitzchak_Yaakov_Rabinovich gptkb:Jascha_Heifetz gptkb:Lev_Karsavin gptkb:Max_Weinreich gptkb:Mark_Antokolsky gptkb:Baruch_Ber_Leibowitz gptkb:Chaim_Grade gptkb:Chaim_Ozer_Grodzinski gptkb:Emanuel_Ringelblum 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:Yisrael_Meir_Kagan gptkb:Zalman_Shazar gptkb:Naftoli_Trop gptkb:Shimon_Shkop
gptkbp:notableRabbinicDynasty	gptkb:Vilna_Gaon gptkb:Brisker_dynasty gptkb:Mir_yeshiva gptkb:Slabodka_yeshiva Ponevezh yeshiva
gptkbp:originatedIn	gptkb:Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania
gptkbp:postHolocaustPopulation	~20,000
gptkbp:preWWIIPopulation	~250,000
gptkbp:sufferedHolocaust	Yes
gptkbp:tradition	gptkb:Ashkenazi_Judaism
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Yisroel_Salanter gptkb:Rabbi_David_Shlomo_Grodzinski gptkb:Rabbi_Naftali_Zvi_Yehuda_Berlin
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6