Translation of the Butkunai chapter
from Pinkas Hakehillot Lita
Written by Josef Rosin
Published by Yad Vashem
Published in Jerusalem, 1996
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(Page 168)
Translated by Shaul Yannai
(Yiddish, Butskun)
A Jewish village in the Alytus district. At the end of the 19th century and in the beginning of the 20th century the village had a few dozen Jews who had a Beit Midrash. The village was abandoned in 1930.
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