Zemach Shabad - Vilius - Lithuania
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N 54° 40.640 E 025° 17.240
35U E 389571 N 6060233
Zemach Shabad, who was considered by historian Simon Dubnov a patriarch of Jewish culture in Vilnius.
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Location: Lithuania
Date Posted: 05/28/2022
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Zemach Shabad, who was considered by historian Simon Dubnov a patriarch of Jewish culture in Vilnius, was honored with his sculpture in the city for the first time already in 1936. Sculptor S. Šmurla created a monument for him right after his death in the yard of children`s dispensary in Vilnius, which was established and curated by Z. Shabad. There was a short note engraved in Yiddish next to the sculpture – „Zemach Shabad. The Great children friend”. During the later Nazi occupation, this monument was demolished, but due to the personal initiative of the Polish yard`s keeper, a part of his bust was saved and passed on the Vilnius Jewish museum after the war. Now, this part of the previous sculpture belongs to the Vilna Gaon museum of Jewish history in Vilnius. The second sculpture of Zemach Shabad was erected in Vilnius already in independent Lithuania – in 2007 on the crossroads of Mesiniu and Ašmenos streets. This is a work by sculptor Romualdas Kvintas, where he represents Zemach Shabad with a girl and a kitty. There are more places related to the memory of Zemach Shabad in Vilnius – in 2014 next to the previous Mishmeres Khoilym Jewish hospital on Kaunas street (now – Mykolas Marcinkevicius hospital, Kauno str. 7/2), where Zemach Shabad worked for a while, the memorial plaque to his work has been presented.
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