Ventspils

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has abstract: (Ger., Windau), town in northwestern Latvia on the shore of the Baltic Sea. From 1561, Ventspils belonged to the Duchy of Courland (Kurland) and was under the sovereignty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until it was annexed to the Russian Empire in 1795. The first Jews came to Ventspils in the second half of the eighteenth century from neighboring localities as well as from Prussia and Lithuania. A burial society and cemetery, however, were not established until 1831. Later a synagogue and a bet midrash were built. @en
title: Ventspils
alternative label: Ventspils
preferred label: Ventspils
has related: Bet ha-Midrash
has related: Bund
has related: Courland
has related: Latvia
has related: Lithuania
has related: Maccabi Movement
has related: About this Article (Poland)
has related: Rubinshteyn, Ruvn
has related: Russian Empire (Russia)
has related: World War I
has related: Yehoshu‘a ben Aleksander ha-Kohen
has related: Zionism and Zionist Parties