“Butkunai” - Encyclopedia of Jewish
Communities in Lithuania
(Butkunai, Lithuania)

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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Butkunai (also Buckunai)

Written by Josef Rosin

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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