Jewish heritage footprints in Žagare

Описание: The small town of Žagarė (Zhager in Yiddish) right on the border between Lithuania and Latvia is proud of the longest list of descendants, whose names are well known in the Jewish world. For example, Reb Yisrael Salanter, whose code of strict moral discipline named Musar movement spread through many Lithuanian yeshivas; or Kalonimus-Zeev Visotzky, whose "Visotzky Tea” became a byword, and Visotzky's name became synonymous with great wealth and business success and appears in much Yiddish literature.

For centuries a small river divides the town into two historical areas: the Old Žagarė and the New Žagarė. Due to this division, local Jews also had two separate communities, which stayed that way even after both Žagarės were administratively declared as one town.
Jerulita guide Daniel Gurevich is walking along the historical quarter of the New Žagarė and discovers how modern residents of Žagarė preserve Jewish heritage sites by putting plaques and inscriptions on the walls of their individual homes.

00:05 On the side street of Zhager
01:00 The Mikva
01:21 The Synagogue
02:40 Zhager marketplace
03:48 The Zhager Jewish cemetery
03:56 The Symbol of Zhager
04:26 Why Daniel raves about visiting small towns

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Jerulita Travel is a team of professional guides and travel admins. Our new initiative is to share knowledge about the Jewish and general heritage and history and to undust the past not only of the big cities but also the smaller towns and shtetls of Lithuania.