- Summary
- This quiet little street in the Old Town was once once of the liveliest streets of the "Black Quarter" of Vilnius. Here stood the Great Synagogue and the Strashun Library with the Vilna Gaon himself reading in the area; it was a place of the hustle and bustle of markets and restaurants shouldered by numerous little shops, and where Vilnius's Jewish population lived, suffered from poverty and traded. -- Publisher
- Variant Title
- Houses that talk : everyday life in Žydų Street in the 19th-20th century (up to 1940)
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Ambrulevičiūtė, Aelita, author.
- Published
- Vilnius : "Aukso žuvys" [2018]
©2018
- Locale
- Žydų gatvės (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Lithuania
Vilnius
Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Other Authors/Editors
- Konstantinavičiūtė, Gintė, author.
Polkaitė-Petkevičienė, Giedrė, author.
- Notes
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"This book is largely based on the resources of the Lithuanian State Historical Archives, Lithuanian Central State Archives and Vilnius Regional State Archives: the inventories of the buildings of Žydų Street, items concerning their owners, tenants, and activities that took place in them, and municipal records; as well as the everyday life naratives and images in contemporary periodicals and photography of Žydų Street in Vilnius, in the period between the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The objective of the book is to make public the archival and other data that could shed some light on the past daily life in the street, its inhabitants, and their quotidian practices."--Acknowledgement, page 9.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-260) and index.
Lithuanian and English.
