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The Israel Antiquities Authority, Kult\u016bros paveldo I\u0161saugojimo paj\u0117gos, the Good Will Foundation, and the Jewish Community of Lithuania are pleased to announce the results of the third season of excavation at the Great Synagogue of Vilna (Vilnius) & the Shulhoyf.<\/p>\n
This year’s excavation, led by Dr. Jon Seligman of the Israel Antiquities Authority and Justinas Ra\u010das of the Kult\u016bros paveldo I\u0161saugojimo paj\u0117gos, focused on defining the outer walls of the bathhouse first exposed last year and finding the back wall of the Great Synagogue.<\/p>\n
July 26, 2018 (Thrusday) at 2 pm we invite the media to the excavation site of Great Synagogue of Vilna (Vilnius) (Vokie\u010di\u0173 str. 13A) to take a closer look with a findings of the unique Judaic religious centre.<\/strong><\/p>\n The participation of archaeologist team that carried out the excavation of Great Synagogue of Vilna (Vilnius), Vilnius major Remigijus \u0160ima\u010dius, Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community and PE \u201cGood Will Foundation\u201d Chair Faina Kukliansky are planned.<\/strong><\/p>\n The work, conducted by a mixed team of Lithuanians, Israelis and Americans, succeeded not only to find the massive external wall of the Great Synagogue, part of its floor and but also a part of the Bimah. Bimah \u2013 is a central part of the synagogue, a platform, from which Rabbi reads Torah and leads the services \u2013 were excavated below the floors of the school that was built over the Great Synagogue in the 1952.<\/p>\n The Bimah, constructed in the 18th<\/sup> century, was donated by the noted Jewish benefactor known by his acronym as the Yesod. The ornate Bimah, was a two tiered Baroque structure with four Corinthian and eight Tuscan columns. Pieces of these columns were found during the excavation. Without question, the discovery of the Bimah is an exciting development, as it was from this platform that the Torah was read to the Jewish community of Vilnius for three centuries before the building was burnt by the Nazis and later demolished by the Soviets.<\/p>\n In addition large sections of the walls of the bathhouse, and the men’s miqve (ritual bath) decorated with coloured tiles, was exposed for the first time.<\/p>\n The discovery of the walls of the Bimah and the miqve shows the further potential for excavation at the site and the exciting possibility to present the remains of the Great Synagogue of Vilna (Vilnius) & the Shulhoyf in the future.<\/p>\n The work was aided by Zenonas Baubonis (Kult\u016bros paveldo i\u0161saugojimo paj\u0117gos, Lithuania); Prof. Richard Freund (University of Hartford, Connecticut, USA); Prof. Harry Jol (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, USA) and Prof. Philip Reeder (Duquesne University, Pittsburg, USA).<\/p>\n The project is partially financed by the Good Will Foundation implementing the project \u201cThe archaeological research of the Great Vilnius synagogue and Shullhoyf\u201d, project No.: GVF-271\/2017(2)PR. Partner of the project \u2013 Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community.<\/p>\n Contacts for more information:<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Jon Seligman – Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, Israel, jon@israntique.org.il<\/a><\/p>\n Zenonas Baubonis and Justinas Ra\u010das – Kult\u016bros paveldo i\u0161saugojimo paj\u0117gos, Vilnius, Lithuania, z.baubonis@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n Monika Antanaityt\u0117 \u2013 Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community, Vilnius, Lithuania, +37067240942, info@lzb.lt<\/a><\/p>\n Author of the photos: J\u016brat\u0117 Raugalien\u0117<\/p>\n The Israel Antiquities Authority, Kult\u016bros paveldo I\u0161saugojimo paj\u0117gos, the Good Will Foundation, and the Jewish Community of Lithuania are pleased to announce the results of the third season of excavation … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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