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to the bottom of the page for the births records,that I have translated.
All the
dates are from the Julian calendar.Add 12 days to find the date on the
Gregorian calendar(Western calendar)
Riga. The Great Choral Synagogue
The
construction of the building was started in 1868 and finished in
1871.The opening ceremony in August 1871 was guided by the Chief Rabbi
Pucher of Jelgava.
Many Jews perished in the burning Synagogue and that they were mainly
from Siauliai, Lithuania.
Rabbi :Dr.Abraham
Neumann (director
of the first Jewish
schoolin
Riga)
Sorry to say, that, henceforth, the
translations of the Latvia Rabbinate Vital records and the 1897
census will be available only by contributors.
