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...
Historical Jewish quarter in Varėna
WORTH VISITING: Until the Second World War, Varėna alike many of this region`s towns and cities was a typical Eastern European shtetl with an active local Jewish community. There were three synagogues, Jewish Folks Bank, Jewish bookstore, religious and secular...
Historical Jewish quarter in Žiežmariai
WORTH VISITING: In small typical town in the middle of Lithuania - in Žiežmariai - historical Jewish quarter was in a relatively compact space. Until the Second World War local Jews mostly lived, worked, and spent their free time on...
Wooden synagogue in Žiežmariai
WORTH VISITING: Wooden synagogue in Žiežmariai is a unique part of Jewish heritage both in Lithuania and in all Eastern Europe as well. It is one of the seventeen extant wooden synagogues in Lithuania and also the biggest wooden synagogue...
Wooden beit midrash in Telšiai
WORTH VISITING: Wooden beit midrash in Telšiai can be a real treasure for those, who search for not traditional historical paths. When everyone is going to the popular yeshiva building in Telšiai, those who cherish their historical imagination take a...
Veisiejai and it`s beit midrash
WORTH VISITING: Veisiejai is a small Lithuanian town famous in the world for the fact, that in the year 1886 Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (1859-1917) lived here, worked as an eye doctor and finished creating the basic principles for the Esperanto...
Historical Jewish Quarters in Zarasai
WORTH VISITING: Zarasai was a birth place of a world-famous painter Jehuda Pen, who was born in the 19th century, studied painting in Saint Petersburg and later established an art school in Vitebsk. This art school was a first artistic...
Wooden Synagogue in Kurkliai
WORTH VISITING: The wooden synagogue of Kurkliai is an extraordinary part of both Lithuanian and Eastern European Jewish cultural heritage. It is one of only 17 extant wooden synagogues in Lithuania. Get Directions For Driving Walking Transit Bicycling show...