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    Lithuanian Jews or Litvaks are Jews with roots in the territory of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania (covering present-day Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, the northeastern Suwałki and Białystok regions of Poland, as well as adjacent areas of modern-day Russia and Ukraine). The term is

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    The Yiddish adjective ליטוויש Litvish means "Lithuanian": the noun for a Lithuanian Jew is Litvak. The term Litvak itself originates from Litwak, a Polish term denoting "a man from Lithuania", which however went out of use before the 19th

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    The characteristically "Lithuanian" approach to Judaism was marked by a concentration on highly intellectual Talmud study. Lithuania became

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    Litvaks have an identifiable mode of pronouncing Hebrew and Yiddish; this is often used to determine the boundaries of Lita (area of settlement of Litvaks). Its most characteristic feature is the pronunciation of the vowel holam as [ej] (as against Sephardic [oː],

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    A large number of Lithuanian Jews settled in Israel, many of them and their descendants becoming famous within the country. Famous Israelis

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    Jews began living in Lithuania as early as the 13th century. In 1388, they were granted a charter by Vytautas, under which they formed a class of freemen subject in all criminal cases directly

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    The Lithuanian Jewish population may exhibit a genetic founder effect. The utility of these variations has been the subject of debate. One variation, which is implicated in familial hypercholesterolemia, has been dated to the 14th century, corresponding to the establishment of

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    The fury of this uprising destroyed the organization of the Lithuanian Jewish communities. The survivors who returned to their old homes in the latter half of the 17th century were practically destitute. The wars which raged constantly in the Lithuanian territory brought ruin to the entire country and deprived the Jews of the opportunity to earn more than a bare livelihood. The intensity of their struggle for existence left them no time to reestablish the conditions which ha…

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      Pages in category "Lithuanian Jews". The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 290 total. This list may not reflect recent changes ( learn more ). (previous page) …

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      How many Jews are there in Lithuania?
      Census figures from 2005 recorded 4007 Jews in Lithuania - 0.12 percent of the country's total population The Yiddish adjective ליטוויש Litvish means "Lithuanian": the noun for a Lithuanian Jew is Litvak.
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      What happened to the Jews of Lithuania in 1918?
      On December 29, 1918, Lithuania's government called for volunteers to defend the Lithuanian state; of 10,000 volunteers more than 500 Jewish. More than 3,000 Jews served in the Lithuanian army between 1918 and 1923. Initially, the Jewish community was given a wide amount of autonomy in education and taxation through community councils, or kehillot.
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      Who are the people involved in the Holocaust in Lithuania?
      Kazys Gimžauskas, deputy of Lileikis, who returned to Lithuania after US authorities began to investigate him in 1996, was convicted in 2001 of participation in genocide. In 2006, Algimantas Dailidė was convicted in Lithuania of persecuting and arresting two Poles and 12 Jews while he was a member of Lithuanian Security Police.
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      What is the name of the Jewish school in Lithuania?
      The most famous Lithuanian institution of Jewish learning was Volozhin yeshiva, which was the model for most later yeshivas. Twentieth-century "Lithuanian" yeshivas include Ponevezh, Telshe, Mir, Kelm, and Slabodka, which bear the names of their Lithuanian forebears.
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    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Lithuania

      The Holocaust in Lithuania resulted in the near total destruction of Lithuanian (Litvaks) and Polish Jews, living in Generalbezirk Litauen of Reichskommissariat Ostland within the Nazi-controlled …

      • Date: June–December 1941
      • Target: Jews
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      • Lithuania had Lithuanians who spoke and polish church and Slavic church language and real Lithuanian language, but the nation was one and the same and this nation lived together with Yiddish speaking Jews, and this nation until occupation in 1773 lived in 700 000 km2 area (some parts were occupied and annexed by russians earlier, some in Kiev Rus t...
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        Jul 29, 2011 · Lithuanian Jews or Litvaks are Jews with roots in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (present-day Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia and the northeastern Suwałki region of Poland). …

      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanians

        Lithuanians (Lithuanian: lietuviai, singular male: lietuvis, singular female: lietuvė) are a Baltic ethnic group.They are native to Lithuania, where they number around 2,378,118 people. …

      • https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Lithuania_Jewish_Records

        Sep 24, 2021 · The history of the Jews in Lithuania spans the period from the fourteenth century to the present day. There is still a small Jewish community in the country, as well as an …

      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian

        Lithuanian may refer to: Lithuanians; Lithuanian language; The country of Lithuania; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Culture of Lithuania; Lithuanian cuisine; Lithuanian Jews as often called …

      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Security_Police

        Jul 03, 2022 · The Lithuanian Security Police (LSP), also known as Saugumas (Lithuanian: Saugumo policija), was a local police force that operated in German-occupied Lithuania from …

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