Jewish Latvia Today - Overview

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INTRODUCTION

Today Latvia’s Jewish community is rebuilding. The majority of Latvian
Jews and Jewish institutions are in the capital city of Riga. Much smaller
communities exist in Daugavpils (Dvinsk) and elsewhere. Latvia's Jewish population of 12-15,000 is a fraction of the 85,000 that lived there before
WWII.

If you live in a community with Jews from the former Soviet Union, you may
be familiar with the types of support and services that are needed to build
new lives in a new country. In Latvia, such immigrants are a majority of the Jews. Many of us are familiar with the struggles of the elderly. A portion of
Riga’s Jews, and the majority in some of the smaller Jewish communities
such as Daugavpils, are elderly.

 

COMMUNITIES

Jewish Community of Latvia
The web site of the Jewish Community of Latvia will introduce you to the Jewish communities, activities and Jewish heritage sites in the country. The Latvian Council of Jewish Communities, which sponsors the web site, unites 13 communities and 9 cities in the state of Latvia.
http://www.jews.lv

Daugavpils (Dvinsk)

Jekabpils (Jakobshtadt,Jacobstadt,Yakovshtat,Yekabpils) Yesterday
and Today

Jurmala

Riga

 

OVERVIEWS

Jewish Communities of the World - World Jewish Congress

Jewish Communities of the Former Soviet Union - Latvia

Lauder Foundation Activities in Latvia

Restitution of Jewish Property - by Stuart Eizestat
NCSJ - Advocates on Behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States and Eurasia

 

ACCOUNTS

Interview - Grigoriy Krupnikov, leader of the Jewish Community in Latvia
Jewish Observer of the Ukraine, November 2001

Latvia's Community Reborn - Jews Foster Renewed Hopes
Jewish News of Greater Phoenix - December 2002

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