The wooden beit midrash in Zarasai
WORTH VISITING: The wooden beit midrash of Zarasai is an extraordinary part of both Lithuanian and Eastern European Jewish cultural heritage. It is one of only 17 extant wooden Jewish prayer houses in Lithuania. The map ID you have entered...
Hasidic synagogue in Žasliai
WORTH VISITING: Žasliai has two surviving buildings, that to this day reminds us about the Jewish community and its inner diversity. These two buildings are Hasidim and Orthodox prayer houses, which stand next to each other. Filter byAll BRIEF HISTORY:...
The great beit midrash in Žasliai
WORTH VISITING: Žasliai has two surviving buildings, that to this day reminds us about the Jewish community and its inner diversity. These two buildings are Hasidic and Orthodox prayer houses, which stand next to each other. Filter byAll BRIEF HISTORY:...
Beit midrash of Prienai
WORTH VISITING: The building of former beit midrash is the only surviving structure that reminds us of the town's Jewish past related with religious life. Filter byAll BRIEF HISTORY: Till the middle of the 20th century, Prienai Jewish community had...
Synagogue of Švėkšna and Švėkšna Market Square
WORTH VISITING: In 1928 in this market square, greeting President of Lithuania A. Smetona, a symbolic banner was erected near the newly erected synagogue, illustrating the friendship between Lithuanians and Jews, and their shared common vision of interwar Lithuania: “We,...
Klaipėda Synagogue and Former Jewish Cemetery
WORTH VISITING: Synagogue of Klaipėda is one of the few examples of how a small Jewish community can recover from devastating events. Filter byAll BRIEF HISTORY: This Jewish cemetery was established in 1759, in a place where Russians once built...
Hasidic kloiz in Kaunas
WORTH VISITING: The extant building of Chasidic kloiz in Kaunas reminds us of many differences in the Kaunas Jewish community before the Second World War. Also, this place is a rare historical site of rather marginal Chasidic community in Kaunas....
Tsvi Hirsh Neviazher kloiz in Kaunas
WORTH VISITING: The majority of extant Jewish prayer house buildings in Kaunas are kloiz buildings, one of such is Tsvi Hirsh Neviazher kloiz building erected in 1851. However, this kloiz is much different from the rest. First of all, it...
Butchers` synagogue in Kaunas
WORTH VISITING: Each big Jewish community in Lithuania usually had not only one or two general beit midrashes or synagogues, where all members of the community gathered during the great holidays, but there were also smaller prayer houses for everyday...
The building of new beit midrash in Kaunas
WORTH VISITING: The building of the former new beit midrash in Kaunas stands out among the surrounding buildings – it is like a ghost from the past, which former function today is known or remembered only by a few daily...