Jēkabpils (Jakobstadt)
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Jēkabpils (Jakobstadt in German), a town in Latvia on the Daugava, was home to one of the oldest Jewish communities in Courland, attested as early as the seventeenth century. An active commercial center, the community was massacred during the Nazi occupation in 1941.
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Sources & resources
- The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ↗
- Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
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