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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:ethnic_group
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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
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gptkb:Litvaks
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gptkbp:diaspora
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gptkb:Australia
gptkb:Canada
gptkb:Israel
gptkb:South_Africa
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkb:United_States
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gptkbp:hasCulturalInstitution
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gptkb:Vilnius
gptkb:Kaunas
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gptkbp:historicalPeriod
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gptkb:Early_Modern_Period
gptkb:Middle_Ages
19th century
20th century
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gptkbp:HolocaustVictims
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over 90% of pre-war population
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Lithuanian Jews
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gptkbp:mainLanguage
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gptkb:Hebrew
gptkb:Yiddish
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gptkbp:notableFor
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gptkb:Vilna_Gaon
gptkb:Musar_movement
gptkb:Mitnagdim_movement
distinct Yiddish dialect
influence on modern Jewish thought
prominent rabbinic scholarship
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gptkbp:notablePerson
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gptkb:Aaron_Klug
gptkb:Baruch_Spinoza
gptkb:Bob_Dylan
gptkb:Chaim_Weizmann
gptkb:David_Ben-Gurion
gptkb:Golda_Meir
gptkb:Hermann_Minkowski
gptkb:Noam_Chomsky
gptkb:Shimon_Peres
gptkb:Simon_Kuznets
gptkb:Yitzhak_Rabin
gptkb:Romain_Gary
gptkb:Abba_Eban
gptkb:Jonas_Mekas
gptkb:Leonard_Cohen
gptkb:Mark_Rothko
gptkb:Menachem_Begin
gptkb:Abraham_Sutzkever
gptkb:Emmanuel_Levinas
gptkb:Isaac_Bashevis_Singer
gptkb:Yitzchak_Elchanan_Spektor
gptkb:Jascha_Heifetz
gptkb:Baruch_Ber_Leibowitz
gptkb:Chaim_Grade
gptkb:Chaim_Ozer_Grodzinski
gptkb:Emanuel_Ringelblum
gptkb:Jacob_ben_Moses_Bachrach
gptkb:Lev_Kuleshov
gptkb:Raphael_Lemkin
gptkb:Yaakov_Yitzchak_Ruderman
gptkb:Yisrael_Salanter
gptkb:Yitzchok_Hutner
gptkb:Abraham_Isaac_Kook
gptkb:Aharon_Kotler
gptkb:Joseph_B._Soloveitchik
gptkb:Moshe_Feinstein
gptkb:Samuel_Bak
gptkb:Yosef_Shlomo_Kahaneman
gptkb:Zalman_Shazar
Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz (Chazon Ish)
Elijah ben Solomon Zalman (Vilna Gaon)
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gptkbp:population
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approximately 250,000 before World War II
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gptkbp:regionOfOrigin
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gptkb:Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania
gptkb:Lithuania
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gptkbp:relatedGroup
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gptkb:Ashkenazi_Jews
gptkb:Belarusian_Jews
gptkb:Latvian_Jews
gptkb:Polish_Jews
gptkb:Ukrainian_Jews
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gptkbp:religion
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gptkb:Judaism
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gptkbp:sufferedEvent
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gptkb:Holocaust
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Orthodox_Judaism
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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4
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