Independent Lithuania 1919 -1940

VILKAVISKIS
A small town in Southern Lithuania
Where the Jewish Community is no more

Relgious Life

Jewish Functionaries

Picture of the gabai

Mr. Pomerantz, the town cantor, , 1932

Rabbi Elchanan Bar Yosef Katz and his Wife,  1929

A Jewish scribe

Rabbi Grin infront of the Great Synagogue in Vilkaviskis. After the swearing in of new Jewish recruits to the Lithuanian army 1935

'Ben Zakai' Hebrew Circle

Another picture of the Gabai

The Hassidic Rabbi in the Sukkah (tabernacle, 1934

This site was built by Ralph Salinger of Kfar Ruppin, Israel
It is built to the glory of the Jewish Community of Vilkkaviskis
You can contact me with any comments at salinger@kfar-ruppin.org,il

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