Litvak Jews

GPTKB entity

Statements (59)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:ethnic_group
gptkbp:affects gptkb:Holocaust
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Litvaks
gptkbp:centeredIn gptkb:Vilnius
gptkbp:culture rationalism
emphasis on education
opposition to Hasidism
gptkbp:diaspora gptkb:Canada
gptkb:Israel
gptkb:South_Africa
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:distinctFrom gptkb:Galician_Jews
Orthodox Judaism
gptkbp:famousDescendants gptkb:Chaim_Weizmann
gptkb:Menachem_Begin
gptkb:Eliezer_Ben-Yehuda
gptkb:Abraham_Cahan
Rav Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz (Chazon Ish)
Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzinski
Rav Chaim Soloveitchik
Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Rav Moshe Feinstein
Rav Yisrael Salanter
gptkbp:hasDialects gptkb:Lithuanian_Yiddish
gptkbp:hasSubgroup gptkb:Ashkenazi_Jews
gptkbp:heritageRecognizedBy gptkb:Lithuanian_government
Jewish diaspora organizations
gptkbp:historicalRegion gptkb:Belarus
gptkb:Latvia
gptkb:Lithuania
northern Ukraine
northeastern Poland
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Litvak Jews
gptkbp:language gptkb:Yiddish
gptkbp:majorYeshivas gptkb:Telshe_Yeshiva
gptkb:Brisk_Yeshiva
gptkb:Grodno_Yeshiva
gptkb:Kelm_Talmud_Torah
gptkb:Mir_Yeshiva
gptkb:Novardok_Yeshiva
gptkb:Ponevezh_Yeshiva
gptkb:Slabodka_Yeshiva
gptkb:Baranovich_Yeshiva
gptkb:Radun_Yeshiva
gptkb:Volozhin_Yeshiva
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Haskalah_movement
gptkb:Musar_movement
Holocaust destruction
opposition to Hasidism
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:Vilna_Gaon
Talmudic scholarship
intellectualism
gptkbp:originatedIn gptkb:Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania
gptkbp:population small in Lithuania
gptkbp:populationBeforeWWII hundreds of thousands
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Judaism
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Great_Synagogue_of_Vilna
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7